Question SH404SEF

I have got sh404sef working on Kunena perfectly okay. However the forum was quite slow so I went into sh404sef and purged thousands of SEF URLs. This definitely seem to make quite a bit of difference with the speed of the forum. Do you think my actions were responsible for the forum speeding up? I don't really understand how this component works apart from giving you some nice URLs for the search engines to pick up. I was just a bit word that if I purged them, I would somehow upset everything on my forum.

This is known problem with sh404sef. In large forum Kunena has huge amount of different urls to be able to show all the messages and different pages. The problem with sh404sef is that it saves URL information to a large cache file (php), which can grow very large.

I assume it's okay to purge these URLs? It didn't seem to make any difference to the URLs on all the different posts.

Where did you get sh404sef for kunena? Does it need any plugin or just install sh404sef

I have had SH404SEF installed on the website for quite a while. If you go to joomla extensions, I think there is a link to where I got mine from, it wasn't the website called Artio, or something similar sounding. As for the plug-in, I got it from the link below and it works great

www.kunena.com/forum?func=view&catid=13&id=4020

For me sh404sef is kinda useless. Yes, i know that mnay of you will contradict me but the so called "search engine friendly url's" are in fact "user friendly url's" and in no case will help you rank higher in search engines. Google and any other search engine can index just fine any kind of url's. There are many other benefits of using a sef extension, unfortunately many don't understand the true purpose of it. sef url's help with security of your site, with duplicate content and so on. With all due respect for creators of sh404sef anyone can manually make some sef settings which will truly help, for example setting the right way h1, h2, h3 tags on your website. I'm not trying to say that sh404sef is completely useless but it's not complete either.