A new sh404SEF® release was published yesterday that natively supports the popular social networking extension JomSocial as well as the forum application Kunena.

‘Native support’ means that, in addition to getting human-readable URLs, you can now configure how the URLs are created with simple options right in the sh404SEF® configuration screens.

I have had this blog post ready for pretty much the last two months, and just did not have time or energy to finish it up for good. Mid-january, I have been willing to sum up what we've be doing since sh404sef found its new home here at anything-digital.com. Since then, we've done much more, and so it's even more worthwhile providing details about all of that. For a more convenient reading, I have broken it up in two parts, next one coming in a few days.

Over the last 7 months, there have been a number of sh404sef updates (close to one per month I believe). Two of them I believe are really worth talking about in detail, and this is just what I intend to do now :)

One of the big buzz-words on the internet is ‘search engine optimization', or SEO, that describes the non-exact art of optimizing your web site so that it shows up higher in search engine results.

One of these SEO techniques is to make sure the search term of interest (i.e ‘keyword') appears in your URL, and of course one way to do this is to use keyword-rich or ‘search engine friendly' URLs such as:

http://www.mydomain.com/apple-pie-recipe.html

If you ask 10 SEO experts wether search engine friendly URLs affect search engine ranking, you are likely to get many different answers ranging from "maybe a little" to "it's the most important factor".

The real answer is that no one knows the secret formula for high search engine ranking. However, experts agree that having keywords in the URL is an important part of the equation.

Today we are excited to announce that the extremely popular URL and security management extension sh404SEF® will become a part of our offerings here at Anything Digital.

Yannick Gaultier, the dedicated developer of sh404SEF®, joins the Anything Digital team today in a partnership designed to ensure that sh404SEF® remains a viable and innovative extension.