Hi, i have been using JoomSef for about 1 year now with no problems. I noticed my rankings falling off google over the last 3-4 months and was trying to work out why. I opened JoomSef yesterday and noticed that new products and pages and categories are not getting automatically updated with SEF details as they were before and there are a lot of pages that are now in the Trashed section of JoomSef. I am not sure why this would be and would like some help on getting JoomSef to automatically update meta details for the pages with no information and going forward that it continues to do it automatically when a new pages is added , as well as getting pages out of the trashed section of joomsef.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Any help would be appreciated, i have had a look at the Joom Status and there are 4000+ URLS trashed? What does this mean and why is it happening????

Automatic SEF URLs: 86
Custom SEF URLs: 1119
Trashed SEF URLs: 5927
404 URLs: 0
Moved URLs: 0
Total URLs: 7132

Hi,

Check that you have meta data autogeneration enabled in JoomSEF's configuration and in the correct extension (probably VirtueMart as you mentioned products) in JoomSEF's Manage Extensions page.

URLs are moved to trash if you use Purge URLs button, and when they are recreated the ones from trash are used first, so you won't lose your already created meta data.

So does this mean when the URL is in trash , the meta details aren't being seen by search engines and the seo URL isn't being seen by search engines either?

No, because when search engine crawls your website JoomSEF recreates SEF URLs on fly. But if some SEF URL was previously indexed by search engine and you move it to trash, search engine still has it indexed, but it won't work until either search engine crawls your site again from root or anyone else visits the site and the URL gets recreated automatically.