Search Engine Friendly URLs are an incredibly important feature for any website.  Even though enabling this in Joomla 1.5 is a relatively straight forward task many users either don’t understand the significance of them or do not have the confidence to change their configuration file and set up the necessary mod_rewrite rules.

To help our customers build better websites and to relieve them of some unecessary hassle we have made an important improvement to our Joomla installation service.

As of version 1.5.5 all Joomla Hosting orders will be pre-configured with search engine friendly URLs enabled. They will work out-of-the-box without the need for any further configuration. Simple!

So instead of your URLs looking like this:

/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=27

they will look like this:

/joomla-overview/what-is-new-in-1-5

They are easier to read and will give you a search engine ranking boost.  Nice!