Making headway with MyBlog and SEF Advance 2008.  I have been provided an extension from Azrul for MyBlog to work with SEF Advance 2008 (awesome support at Azrul).

It is still in development but I'll attach it here because it works very well so far but one issue I have which Azrul is working on which involves the search results

Did you get the dashboard (edit) to work?  I can't seem to get it to display.  It pops up the window but displays the same page (the dashboard) in the window and not the editor.  Azrul has sent me the same file and says it's working fine on his site and if it's working fine for you I must have something else wrong.  Thanks!

Do you know if your current release supports iJoomla News Portal?  I seem to be having trouble with new portal working...

There are three SEF options in the default Joomla 1.5 control panel

What is the preferred setting for those in combination with SEF Advanced?  I know about the id at the end (html) which I turn off.

Thanks!

Thanks very much for the quick reply.  In your experience does this hurt your Google rank in the search engine?

I don't know if SEF Advanced can help me with this or not (maybe I don't have a setting correct).  Google WebCentral reports that I have 1,400 Duplicate Content Tags.  They most come from the list of categories under a section (see screeshot below).  So I assume when Googlebot crawls the site it sees each page of content listings as a new page but with the same Title Tag on the page.  Does that make sense?

If that is the problem is there anyway to fix it?

Thanks very much!!

Thanks for the quick response.  Since this is a migration I see that you offer a discount.  Since I need to test will both the old version and the new version work ( they will both be registered to the same domain of course).  I am using localhost as a development site.

I am currently using the old product on my site.  I have over 1700 articles and it is indexed with sec,cat,article,uniqueID (date) using SEF Advanced.

When I migrate to 1.5.x I want to use the new SEF Advanced product but I need my article links to remain the same.  As long as the migration works correctly and the sections, categories and articles all move correctly, when I install SEF Advanced 2008 will everything still look the same to the search engines?

Thanks...

My thanks in advance also!  I'm really looking forward to this plugin...

I searched the forum and could not find this so sorry in advance if someone has already asked.

I am moving the content around in my site and I am using the redirect feature (great by the way!).    Here is my question:  some of the url's have special characters.  For example instead of the : it will be %3A.  In Google the url shows with the : instead of the %3A.  Should I do a redirect for both options?

Example:

pet/dog/finding_help:_the_easy_way   ->  dog/health/finding_help:_the_easy_way

-and-

pet/dog/finding_help%3A_the_easy_way  -> dog/health/finding_help%3A_the_easy_way

Thanks!

I tried to look at the source for this but it is encoded.  I was able to fix the myblog extension and was going to try and help with this one....

Here is the one I just fixed.  It now correctly displays all the bloggers in order and also correctly opens the Dashboard link on the user menu...

Let me know if anyone has any trouble with it.

I'll check with them.   I have posted them just recently about an issue and they didn't respond which is very uncharacteristic of them.  They have been very fast with their support.  Maybe they are just swamped at the moment.

Thanks for the update!  Did you email them recently?

Okay... found something that might help a programmer point me in the right direction.  In the myblog sef_ext.php file there wasn't an entry for the blogs option.  I added one and I thought it might work but it doesn't.  The dbug error message is:
 [option] => com_myblog
    [Itemid] => 88889232
    [show] => blogs
)
/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=88889232&show=blogs

Which is the WRONG Itemid.  It should be 8889162 for this to work.  Is there anyway to force an Itemid id in the sef_ext.php file?

Here is what I added:
else if (eregi('&task=search',$string) ||
         eregi('&task=categories',$string) ||
         eregi('&task=rss',$string) ||
                                                eregi('&task=blogs',$string)) {
         $temp = explode("&task=", $string);
         $temp = explode("&", $temp[1]);
         $sefstring .= $temp[0]."/";
         }

Thanks!

Very interesting.  I don't have a problem with any of the modules and if I click on a blog entry it displays correctly including the proper modules.  I just can't display the list of bloggers and the dashboard link in the user menu doesn't work, it just displays a list of all the blogs.

I wonder if Sakic (or anyone) would have time to look at the sef_ext?  I'll look but I'm no programmer 

Version 1.0 build 105 is the latest.  Do either of you have the sef_ext working?  Did you download the one from the azrul.com forum?