How to enable Search Engine Friendly URLs in Magento?

[jaredovi]

To enable Search Engine Friendly URLs in Magento, you have to log in to the Magento administration area and click on the Configuration button. Under the System navigation menu, switch to Web page from the sub-navigation panel on the left.

When the page loads, you will see blue lines which represent closed options tablets. Click on the Search Engines Optimization tab and turn on the Use Web Server Rewrites (mark as Yes). Click on the Save Config button and your Magento SEF URLs will be enabled.

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[Amasty]

Short and descriptive URLs are very important for SEO, so thanks for pointing out this Magento feature.
You can also enhance Magento SEO friendliness with special extensions like this one https://amasty.com/magento-seo-toolkit.html
It will enable you to:

Build up comprehensive site maps
Easily generate relevant meta tags
Quickly export and import product tags
Create short attractive URLs
Make you product reviews SEO-friendly

[pablohunt2812]

How To Enable Friendly URLs in Magento

In order to use Magento's feature for more user and search-engine friendly URLs, you have to login to the Magento's administration area (usually * http://YourDomainName/admin/* ), click on the *Configuration* button, under the *System* navigation menu, switch to the *Web* page from the sub-navigation panel on the left side of the page.

When the page loads, you will see blue lines, which represents closed settings tablets. Click on the *Search Engines Optimization* tab, and turn on the *Use Web Server Rewrites* (mark as *Yes)*. Click on the *Save Config*button and you are done.

Now you have enabled user-friendly URLs in Magento.

[Pallavi_G]

Steps to enable the Search Engines Friendly URLs in Magento -

1. Log into your admin area and go to System -> Configuration:

2. Click on the Web link in the left menu:

3. On this page expand the Search Engine Optimization tab of options and set the Use Web Server Rewrites option to Yes:

4. Click Save Config button.

[TangelThor]

To enable the Search Engines Friendly URLs in Magento, first log into your admin area and go to System -> Configuration:
Click on the Web link in the left menu:
On this page expand the Search Engine Optimization tab of options and set the Use Web Server Rewrites option to Yes: Click Save Config button.

[katejohn302]

To enable SEF URLs on Magento 1, go to your Magento admin panel > System tab > Configuration > General section > Web. Then expand the Search Engines Optimization section and change the value of Use Web Server Rewrites to Yes and save the changes.