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Search engine friendly (SEF) ,  human-readable  or  clean URLs  are URLs that make sense to both humans and search engines because they explain the path to the particular page they point to. Since version 1.5, Joomla! is capable of creating and parsing URLs in any format, including SEF URLs. This does not depend on URL rewriting executed by the web server, so it works even if Joomla! runs a server other than Apache with the mod_rewrite module. The SEF URLs follow a certain fixed pattern, but the user can define a  short descriptive text (alias)  for each segment of the URL. Internally, the local part of a SEF URL (the part after the domain name) is called a  route . Creating and processing SEF URLs is therefore referred to as  routing , and the relevant code is called a  router . A good example of routing is the URL to "Welcome to Joomla!" article in the sample data. Without SEF URLs turned on, the URL is  http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240"] www.selfmadexone.com[/caption] It is important that your website can be found by people who are looking for its content, therefore you must serve content to search engine 'bots' in a way that they can interpret, analyse and identify how relevant it is to the search query. For this to happen, you need to bring to the attention of the 'bots' important information about the page using various techniques detailed below - almost like a 'signpost' telling the 'bot' what the page contains.