SitemapXML v.2

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Originally Posted by ckosloff

Just makes your life easier by automating the process.

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Hey ckosloff, small world, eh? :cool:

It's great to have a sitemap generator uniquely tailored to zencart. I'm trying to evaluate software and/or services that helps with sitemaps for search engines. I imagine some have many thousands of users that have already worked the kinks out. Have you reviewed the others at the google site? I was hoping that because SitemapXML was written specifically for zencart that it would, for example, provide better coverage and/or include more intelligent processing based upon zencart insights and/or allow greater control over the generated sitemap or other features.

Reading the thread, I was surprised to find out, if I understood correctly, that urls from "define pages" are not included in SitemapXML v.2. That would be unfortunate if true, since I have installed the "Editable Sidebox" mod and have significant content in it that is essential for my SEO efforts. I believe that mod (although, frankly I may not know what I'm talking about) is based on an extension of the Define Editor.

Do you or anyone else have additional thoughts or comments based on my muddled thinking at this point?

If so, I'd love to hear it. Thanks to Andrew and the rest of the community.

Hi, Nice add on

But I have a question.

When you go to te page_not found url you'll get the 'old' zc sitemap.

How can we retrieve this sitemap with his variabeles

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Originally Posted by RaySpike

When you go to te page_not found url you'll get the 'old' zc sitemap.

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You are confused, the xml file is only for the search engines.
The internal workings of Zen Cart will always point to the html sitemap.

Hi

Umm
I followed the install instructions, uploaded the files ran the patch (copy and pasted)

Then under admin, configuration i can see an area called "Sitemap XML" NOT "Google Sitemap Configuration" as stated in the install instructions...

OK there are some settings there, not sure what to do there...

Then in the install instrcutions go to Admin->Tools>Google XML Sitemap well that isnt there at all!!!! There is no label for that.

Also i look at the sitemap files in my ftp and they all have zero filesize. OK now i see that i need to chmod the 6 xml files... done. I then went to my browers mydomain.com/sitemapxml.php and its written the sitemap files

Still nothing under Admin Tools about sitemaps at all.

How do i submit these sitemaps to the search engines? Will the pick them up automatically

any ideas please? the file i downloaded is sitemapxml__formerly_google_sitemap_2-1-0\sitemapXML

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Originally Posted by creamcrackers

sitemapxml__formerly_google_sitemap_2-1-0\sitemapXML

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That is the correct file.
You will only see Sitemap XML in Admin->Configuration, references to Google Sitemap are obsolete.
If you don't see anything under Tools, chances are that you didn't upload all the files in correct location.
Double-check carefully.
Install.sql you have to paste into Tools->Install SQL patches and click Send, you will get a success message in Zen Cart.
Automation is achieved via a cron job.

Doh!

It didnt work because I had renamed my admin folder. I uploaded the admin files into my newnameadmin folder and it worked.

I created a webhosting tools account at google, verified my site and submitted sitemapindex.xml for the sitemap

I created a robots.txt file and pointed it to sitemapindex.xml

Is that it? Do i need to also submit the OTHER sitemap files to Google or is that enough? Do i need to make a reference to AALL the sitemap files in robots.txt or is sitemapindex.xml enough?

I created an account at Yahoo, verified my site and submitted sitemapindex.xml as a FEED

I hope i understood correctly.

For the benefit of people using Simple SEO URL mod...


I made some changes to my aliases and then refreshed the cache but when i went to the XML sitemap link it didnt work so i went to my browser and typed in

http://your_domain/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml

It told me that theres werent any changes to my categories sitemap.. but there were. I checked the xml file and they were pointing to my old aliases. I couldnt get it to update.

So i opened the zip file i had downloaded to install SitemapXML mod and overwrote the blank xml files up to my webserver overwriting my sitemaps

Then back to my browser http://your_domain/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml and it rebuilt my sitemaps with the proper links

I am having problem with the Admin > Tools > Sitemap XML tool for rebuilding the sitemap (yes i already have chmod 777 for the sitemaps)

So to get it to rebuild i just type http://your_domain/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml into the browser and it works ferfectly

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Originally Posted by creamcrackers

Is that it? Do i need to also submit the OTHER sitemap files to Google or is that enough? Do i need to make a reference to AALL the sitemap files in robots.txt or is sitemapindex.xml enough?

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sitemapindex.xml is enough, but no harm if you also submit the other sitemaps or reference them.
In the Tools menu, you should click on Step 1 to update sitemaps, you do see the menu, right?

Thanks

Google webmaster tools is now saying it found 200 urls but saying none of them are indexed... is that something i need to wait for (being a bit impatient)

I am also wondering if this is going to be good to get me Sitelinks in google (those category lins you can see by some sites listing) because it has a seperate sitemap for catgeories. That might be good?

Here is a strange thing

<loc>http://www.gogoflorist.com/romance-thailand/timeless-beauty</loc>
<lastmod>2009-05-16</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.34</priority>

the last mod date is 16th may, not today 16th august so its 3 month out of date i checked the server date time and is correct.

OK I am having a strange thing happen...I uninstalled the older version and installed this new sitemapxml version. I have everything installed correctly (I believe!) but when I go and click to generate the sitemap it brings up this page http://www.redwood-puppy.com/index.p...age=sitemapxml which is a page not found page on my website! I don't get the site map generation.

Why on earth not?

Please help!:shocking:

OK please ignore my previous post, I figured out what was wrong. Now when I generate I get two failed areas, EZpages and reviews. I don't have any reviews so that is probably why that one is popping up but I do have EZ pages. Here is what I get:

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SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Categories Sitemap

File http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapcategories.xml. Written 11 items (2537 bytes), Filesize: 2546 bytes
Total: files 1, items 11 (2546 bytes).

Ezpages Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapezpages.xml"!!!
File http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapezpages.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes

Products Sitemap
File http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapproducts.xml. Written 40 items (8567 bytes), Filesize: 8576 bytes
Total: files 1, items 40 (8576 bytes).

Reviews Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapreviews.xml"!!!
File http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapreviews.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes

Sitemap Index
Include sitemap3.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemap3.xml)
Include sitemapcategories.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapcategories.xml)
Include sitemap.xml.gz (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemap.xml.gz)
Include sitemap1.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemap1.xml)
Include sitemap4.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemap4.xml)
Include sitemap.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemap.xml)
Include sitemapproducts.xml (http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapproducts.xml)
URL - http://www.redwood-puppy.com/sitemapindex.xml
Written 7 items (1265 bytes), Filesize: 1265 bytes
Total Execution Time 0:0.3850

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Any fixes for this?

Also, I saw that there was an EZpages fix, but what do you do with the php file? Do you replace the old sitemapezpages with this new sitemapxml_ezpages? And if so, what else needs to be modified so that it works correctly?

Hi zencart Community
I have installed Google sitemap xml on 2 different zen shops
but my number 1 shop does not get index in google for some reason.
my number 2 shop being index within 5 hours of install
any help would be appreciated.
I have compared both store files and can not find any difference????
Have read & reread and modified all files as per this forum.
Both stores live for about 5 months.
Problem shop is www.tassaddlery.com.au

zen cart v1.3.8

Any advice Appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Michael

Hi, there

Why I always get the 'cURL Error: Error http_code "403" ...' while I click 'step 2' inside 'Google XML Sitemap Admin' interface but the other 3 pings works well. When I try to submit my sitemap to yahoo manually using 'http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://www.shoesbuyonline.com/sitemapindex.xml', it would throw another error said 'The following errors were detected <Message>limit exceeded</Message>'. I have created an account with yahoo and have authenticate my website by adding a block of code in my html_header.php file. :no:

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Not sure if this has been covered already - but should the sitemap include the index page (i.e. / )

Google has indexed all my products & pages except the homepage.

Regards,
Matt

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Originally Posted by mattclements

should the sitemap include the index page (i.e. / )
Google has indexed all my products & pages except the homepage.

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Yes. That is probably your most important page.

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Originally Posted by ShoesBuyOnline

Why I always get the 'cURL Error: Error http_code "403" ...' while I click 'step 2' inside 'Google XML Sitemap Admin' interface but the other 3 pings works well.

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http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=173

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Originally Posted by ckosloff

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=173

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Hi, ckosloff

Thanks for your reply.
I have read the post in your link carefully before I post my question in this thread. So, I have an account with yahoo and have authenticated my site via adding a block of code from yahoo. And, I have even submitted my sitemapindex.xml file as a feed to Yahoo. Now, what I do is to press the 'resubmit feeds' button inside yahoo siteexplorer.

Don't know why and don't know how to deal with this. :no:

Regards,

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Originally Posted by ShoesBuyOnline

Hi, there

Why I always get the 'cURL Error: Error http_code "403" ...' while I click 'step 2' inside 'Google XML Sitemap Admin' interface but the other 3 pings works well. When I try to submit my sitemap to yahoo manually using 'http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://www.shoesbuyonline.com/sitemapindex.xml', it would throw another error said 'The following errors were detected <Message>limit exceeded</Message>'. I have created an account with yahoo and have authenticate my website by adding a block of code in my html_header.php file. :no:

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

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I've been struggling with the same error. The "limit exceeded" error from Yahoo means your sitemap files are too large and you need to turn on the gzip compression.

DONT FORGET! you need to fix the typo for compression to work properly. see instructions http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=169

I've been submitting to Yahoo manually like you have, entering the URL directly into the browser and sending it, because it returns more helpful error messages. With the files compressed, the submission gets accepted about half the time.

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Originally Posted by slomojojo

I've been struggling with the same error. The "limit exceeded" error from Yahoo means your sitemap files are too large and you need to turn on the gzip compression.

DONT FORGET! you need to fix the typo for compression to work properly. see instructions http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=169

I've been submitting to Yahoo manually like you have, entering the URL directly into the browser and sending it, because it returns more helpful error messages. With the files compressed, the submission gets accepted about half the time.

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Hi, slomojojo

Thanks for your reply.
I have fix the typo in the link and the fact now is I have only directories setup but no products in. So, my problem looks weird. All other 3 SEs accepted but Yahoo don't. :frusty:

All the best,

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Originally Posted by ShoesBuyOnline

All other 3 SEs accepted but Yahoo don't.

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Yahoo is quirky.
I have my cron set to daily, sometimes it takes it, sometimes it doesn't, why?
I think that Yahoo does not like repetitive sends (anti-DDoS security measures), and my website does not change frequently, so no new sitemaps are generated.
I develop everything off site, then FTP files and images, and upload new database.
So, after my submission is blocked for a couple days, it gets accepted again, and blocked again.
If you refresh your sitemap it will take it, it will understand it like a different ping.

Hi,

Sitemap XML does not seem to be updating my products. when I click on update, it shows 0 updated files. new product links on my site are not displayed in the XML file.

Any ideas?

Anyone know why i could create multi languages sitemap for product but i can't do it with categories?

This is examples from my sitemap files categories / product:

2009-08-18 weekly 0.99
http://www.handicraft-vn.com/shop/bu...ml?language=en 2009-08-18 weekly 0.99
http://www.handicraft-vn.com/shop/bu...ml?language=fr


2007-01-29 weekly 0.5
http://www.handicraft-vn.com/shop/comb-horn-c-88.html 2009-07-23 weekly 0.5
http://www.handicraft-vn.com/shop/ma...raft-c-97.html

Any ideas and advice?

Thanks you.

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Originally Posted by ckosloff

Yahoo is quirky.
I have my cron set to daily, sometimes it takes it, sometimes it doesn't, why?
I think that Yahoo does not like repetitive sends (anti-DDoS security measures), and my website does not change frequently, so no new sitemaps are generated.
I develop everything off site, then FTP files and images, and upload new database.
So, after my submission is blocked for a couple days, it gets accepted again, and blocked again.
If you refresh your sitemap it will take it, it will understand it like a different ping.

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Hi, ckosloff

Thanks for your input. You are really helpful. :smile:

Best regards,

Hello again,

Still no response to my first questions:( (page 22 of this thread)...

Now I am having a problem with the cron job. I have tried setting it up all the different ways stated in this post (with and without removing the .txt) and I always get the same error from Google (sitemap not formatted correctly).

Has someone successfully set up their Cron Job and if so, how is it set up?

Thanks for the great mod.

One question, I didn't quite find my answer here was, after submitting my site http://everythingaviation.net to google. Google replies back with 2,908 URLS submitted, 0 indexed. Am I missing something? How do I make sure that I don't have the "noindex" notation on each page?

Thank you,

Victor

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Originally Posted by cmgraham

I always get the same error from Google (sitemap not formatted correctly).
Has someone successfully set up their Cron Job and if so, how is it set up?

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We are talking apples and oranges here.
If Google bounces your sitemap for bad formatting, there is something wrong in your files, you have to investigate further: uninstall-reinstall, etc.
A cron job is set through your webhost's Control Panel, there are wizards there to help you, or you could ask them for help.

Hi Victor,

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Originally Posted by captainmav

Google replies back with 2,908 URLS submitted, 0 indexed.

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Be patient :smile:

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Originally Posted by ckosloff

We are talking apples and oranges here.
If Google bounces your sitemap for bad formatting, there is something wrong in your files, you have to investigate further: uninstall-reinstall, etc.
A cron job is set through your webhost's Control Panel, there are wizards there to help you, or you could ask them for help.

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I miswrote. It doesn't say bad formatting, it says this:


General HTTP error: 404 not found
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

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Originally Posted by cmgraham

...it says this:
General HTTP error: 404 not found

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Same answer.
This is unrelated to cron.
You have to troubleshoot your installation.

I followed the instructions, chmod 777 on sitemap* and patched the db but I get this:

[SCR]SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Categories Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapcategories.xml"!!!
File http://localhost/sitemapcategories.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Ezpages Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapezpages.xml"!!!
File http://localhost/sitemapezpages.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Products Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapproducts.xml"!!!
File http://localhost/sitemapproducts.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Reviews Sitemap
Failed to open file "sitemapreviews.xml"!!!
File http://localhost/sitemapreviews.xml. Written 0 items (0 bytes), Filesize: 0 bytes
Sitemap Index
Include sitemapproducts.xml (http://localhost/sitemapproducts.xml)
Include sitemapcategories.xml (http://localhost/sitemapcategories.xml)
Failed to open file "sitemapindex.xml"!!!
Total Execution Time 0:0.0143[/SCR]

Anyone has any idea how to fix it?

Cheers

When the categories.xml file is created, extra urls are added which have cpath appened at the end. When I check to see what these URLs point to, it appears that it is simply pointing to the home page with 'new products' being different for each url listed.

How can I prevent this from happening as I have to manually remove these extra URLs from the file and resubmit my sitemap each time.

Thanks and sorry if this sounds a little confusing.

Hello everyone.

I have read every post in this thread and other threads on the subject. I believe I understand but would like to make absolutely sure as I am not very familiar with Zen Cart yet. I apologize if the questions may seem simple and any help will be greatly appreciated.

1. Adding this mod will not affect the built in Zen-Cart Sitemap?

2. The SitemapXML v.2 will be generated together (at the same time) with Zen-Cart's Sitemap?

3. Assuming the XML site generated by SitempaXML v.2 is not submitted to search engines will pages already indexed be indexed or crawled any differently?

4. Does the XML site generated by SitempaXML v.2 be indexed by search engines?

Google has indexed most of my pages. I have read of some uses of this mod experiencing a loss of indexed pages after submitting the Sitemap. On the other hand, Bing and Yahoo only have a few pages indexed and would like to submit a site map to them.

Any ideas, suggestion or comments would be great.

Thank you in advance.

Hello to everyone, I've got sitemap generator installed and running. I'm also running on my site 2 languages: italian & english. The urls of my products are mapped both in ita and eng. I'm running on my site the Ceon Uri Mapping that converts using mod_rewrite rules all my links products. For example for the same product "HANDBAG SHAPED USB PEN DRIVE" I have a specific link for each language:

eng uri: /funky-usb/borsetta-usb
ita uri: /funky-usb/handbag-usb-pen-drive

All works fine for me. But If I run the sitemap generator, for the urls generated on sitemapproduct.xml I get:

http://www.my.com/funky-usb/handbag-...e?&language=en
http://www.my.com/funky-usb/handbag-...e?&language=it

and not what I'd suppose to get:

www.my.com/funky-usb/handbag-usb-pen-drive
www.my.com/funky-usb/borsetta-usb

Anyone can help me? I going to get into the code...:lamo:

Cheers!

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Originally Posted by dousacu

Hello everyone.
1. Adding this mod will not affect the built in Zen-Cart Sitemap?

No. Completely different things.

2. The SitemapXML v.2 will be generated together (at the same time) with Zen-Cart's Sitemap?

No. Same answer.

3. Assuming the XML site generated by SitempaXML v.2 is not submitted to search engines will pages already indexed be indexed or crawled any differently?

No understand. If it's not submitted, how can it affect your site?
Anyway, your site will be indexed more efficiently over time.

4. Does the XML site generated by SitempaXML v.2 be indexed by search engines?
This mod generates xml files that spiders use to crawl your site more efficiently.

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Why so serious?

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Originally Posted by tirsys

Anyone can help me? I going to get into the code...

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Just get into the Admin, see post #122

Hi ckosloff!

Wow! it sounds someone got into the code before myself... ;)

Unfortunately I've not really got which admin you mean. I've searched into the forum fot it but no luck...I can't find it :(

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Originally Posted by tirsys

Unfortunately I've not really got which admin you mean

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http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=122

"Generate language_id for default language" set to false but nothing has changed...

Thank you ckosloff. I really appreciate your answer and time. Sorry if I sounded so serious just trying to make sure I do not make any mistakes and trying to understand how it works. Thanks!

Here is an update on the Yahoo problem.
Regarding this "curl malformed" message that I was getting I contacted my webhost Hostgator, they are quite a big outfit.
They contacted Yahoo and got a "Limit exceeded" warning.
They suggested that I scale down the frequency of the pings, so I set the cron to ping weekly instead of daily, and eventually it went through without errors.
So, this confirms what I thought: they are very cautious about their site not getting brought down again by a DDoS attack, and are limiting (too strictly) the number of pings that can be sent.
I know that none of the other SEs complain about a daily ping, but Yahoo does.
I think it is overkill, but that's the way it is.

It seems the problem is not getting to fix...yet! :frusty:

Enabling "Generate language_id for default language" in certain conditions nothing changes.

If I set false "Generate language_id for default language":

sometimes the tool generates the italian sitemap and sometimes the english sitemap. Never the tool generates the complete ita/eng tree.

Anyone has any little idea to focus on?

Cheers!

Just installed SitemapXML and the process was pretty painless. :smile:

I guess it's not a big deal, but...my categories site map only includes 1 category vs. the 4 categories that exist in my store. Anyone know why? I am using Simple SEO URL as an add-on to the most recent version of ZC and suspect that might have something to do with it. Interestingly, the categories that were excluded only contain one product.

I'm embarrassed to ask, but here goes:

Where would I be able to see my index page within the site map(s)? The sitemapindex.xml file only lists my 3 other site maps. Those site maps are of my EZ pages, products and categories, so where would my home page be listed?

Thanks in advance!

I just installed on v1.38 but does anyone have any idea why my main sitemap index page, as accesible through http://www.roncopromotions.com/index...age=sitemapxml, wouldn't list ANY of my 4 other ("real") sitemaps?

I just upgraded to this version from the Google XML sitemap. Now Google Webmastertools reports that none of the urls submitted in my "new" sitemap are indexed. This concerns me, the urls should be the same as my old ones, and they should already be indexed. Has anyone experienced a similar issue?

Hi,
I'm running 1.3.8, ez pop, ceon mapping. Store is few months in making and running fine until now. I installed this addon. Configured it. Ran it. Everything went fine. Created sitemaps. Exited, then came back and couldn't login. I receive the following error msg:

0 DB_ERROR_NOT_CONNECTED
in:
[select * from zen_project_version WHERE project_version_key = 'Zen-Cart Database' ]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.

Also, the store is acting erratically in that some of the links are fine and some give me the following message:

"Sorry!
There seems to be a problem connecting to our database. Please give us a few minutes to remedy the problem. Thank you."

I scanned the forums, and google. Didn't see specifics on this error other than a suggestion to look at configure.php which I did and it hasn't changed.

Do I need to uninstall this as it somehow affected my database. If so, how, since I don't have access to admin on zencart any more.

Should I restore my backup database?

Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thank you. Essentially down for the count right now.

Dead store issue resolved, but I still don't know why it happened, but it's outta there for now. Did end up with the first good sitemap when it did work for the first half hour or so. If anyone has any thoughts they would still be welcomed. Thanks.

You will have to excuse my ignorance but it seems like we jumped from step 2 to 5 in the directions, how do you get it to generate the sight maps? I installed everything and set the cronjob and thought it would run as a routine in the wee hours of the morning. However I checked it today and all the site maps are still empty and zero in size.

any help? I do realize the problem is more then likely me lol

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Originally Posted by a_berezin

Hi Victor,

Be patient :smile:

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First off, thank you for making this add-on and for sharing it with all of us.

The above quote is the only response I've found so far to several people who are having the problem of Google not indexing their products. I'm in the same boat, I used this program and submitted my sitemaps to Google and they are not showing errors at all. However, all sitemap*.xml files are indexing except the products one. It is showing 161 URLs submitted and 0 indexed. I have resubmitted them, with no positive results other than again, no errors... but no indexing either. I've waited several days now and it is still not indexing. Anyone have any other ideas besides being patient?

Thanks!
jabtac.com

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Originally Posted by slomojojo

I've been struggling with the same error. The "limit exceeded" error from Yahoo means your sitemap files are too large and you need to turn on the gzip compression.

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This was very helpful.. I too was getting the Yahoo 403 Curl errors.. I changed my XML Sitemap settings to compress the sitemaps, and presto.. The Yahoo submission was successful.. Thanks to you and ckosloff for the hints and help on this issue..

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Originally Posted by jabtac

First off, thank you for making this add-on and for sharing it with all of us.

The above quote is the only response I've found so far to several people who are having the problem of Google not indexing their products. I'm in the same boat, I used this program and submitted my sitemaps to Google and they are not showing errors at all. However, all sitemap*.xml files are indexing except the products one. It is showing 161 URLs submitted and 0 indexed. I have resubmitted them, with no positive results other than again, no errors... but no indexing either. I've waited several days now and it is still not indexing. Anyone have any other ideas besides being patient?

Thanks!
jabtac.com

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I am having the same problem. I will check and see what Google say about this soon.

FYI for all who are waiting for Google to index their sitemap, it does take time...I submitted mine a few months ago, and only now is google showing the pages being indexed.

On another note, it is possible to have a manufacturers xml added in to the next update?

Thanks so much for this tool!

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Originally Posted by hey_you

FYI for all who are waiting for Google to index their sitemap, it does take time...I submitted mine a few months ago, and only now is google showing the pages being indexed.

On another note, it is possible to have a manufacturers xml added in to the next update?

Thanks so much for this tool!

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Thanks for the input...
Interesting... Google almost immediately showed my other sitemaps as indexed (EZ pages, etc) but the products are still holding at 0. I wonder why some would go through so quickly while others may take months!?

Hi

Have downloaded and installed this a couple of times after failing to get it to work the first time. Am trying to install on a very old copy of zencart could this be the problem? When i get to click on the here tab to create the sitemap I only get a blank page! What am I doing wrong or should I really upgrade!

Thanks in advance

Hi

Just installed this module and followed the instructions until I get to Admin - Tools - google xml sitemap and there is no such name.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

matt

Got it all installed and "working" Although I am noticing a few issues and was curious if anyone could shed some light on it. I am currently running Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Within the sitemaps that it pulls it shows links like:

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http://xoskins.com/digital-cameras/nikon/nikon-coolpix-s60-xo-skin?&language=en

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Yet when I click on the link it shows:

Code:

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http://xoskins.com/digital-cameras/nikon/nikon-coolpix-s60-xo-skin

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Do the links read as something different on the backend? This is hurting my indexing with google. Anyone else run into this?

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Originally Posted by new2u

Got it all installed and "working" Although I am noticing a few issues and was curious if anyone could shed some light on it. I am currently running Ceon URI Mapping (SEO)

Within the sitemaps that it pulls it shows links like:

Code:

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http://xoskins.com/digital-cameras/nikon/nikon-coolpix-s60-xo-skin?&language=en

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Yet when I click on the link it shows:

Code:

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http://xoskins.com/digital-cameras/nikon/nikon-coolpix-s60-xo-skin

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Do the links read as something different on the backend? This is hurting my indexing with google. Anyone else run into this?

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A. This would NOT hurt your indexing with Google..
B. This has NOTHING to do with Ceon URI Mapping. Ceon URI Mapping as it's written is unlikely to cause issues with other add-ons.. I believe that if you change the XML sitemap setting for "Generate language_id for default language" to false this should solve this for you.

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

A. This would NOT hurt your indexing with Google..
B. This has NOTHING to do with Ceon URI Mapping. Ceon URI Mapping as it's written is unlikely to cause issues with other add-ons.. I believe that if you change the XML sitemap setting for "Generate language_id for default language" to false this should solve this for you.

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Thanks for the tip. I changed it to false, but it is still doing it.

editing that only seemed to remove the amp; yet the ?&language=en is still there.

FAAAAb mod, thanx!! 2 questions:

1. 2 language site, the products map is generating everything twice, once in ea. language. Am I not better off with just the default lang. so I won't be seen as putting dup. content? (OK the text descriptions are all diff. but the product numbers are repeated...) Also, Google is only indexing about half the product urls... do I ever rate the whole thing?

and

2. Generate language_id for default language is set to true, and I don't know what that does.... explanation?
example url in products index: http://weissewolke.com/index.php?mai...34&language=en

thanks!
JSC Boulder :wink:

I read back a few pages and didn't see this. Pardon me if I missed it. If you have a Windows Live account and use the Live Webmaster Tools, You can ping bing directly by adding the following on the configuration page after the Moreover entry.

Bing => http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=%s

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Google => http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...ng?sitemap=%s; Yahoo! => http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExpl...ng?sitemap=%s; Ask.com => http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=%s; Microsoft => http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=%s; Bing => http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=%s

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JOhn :P

Hi, I'm using ZC 1.3.8 with Ultimate SEO along side Sitemap XML. My sitemaps are not being generated with friendly URL's.

Please advise.

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Originally Posted by Stuff4Toys

I read back a few pages and didn't see this. Pardon me if I missed it. If you have a Windows Live account and use the Live Webmaster Tools, You can ping bing directly by adding the following on the configuration page after the Moreover entry.

Bing => http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=%s


JOhn :P

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Nice.. thanks for the heads up!!!

Just an FYI. Paypal Payments Pro (along with Paypal Express Checkout) does not work with Ultimate SEO installed. I had to turn it off.

Is anyone able to help me please, I regularly use the this add on to submit my site map to the powers that be...only for the first time it has malfunctioned, and gives me the following error, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. RR

SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Ping
Ping Google
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to www.google.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Yahoo!
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExpl...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to search.yahooapis.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Ask.com
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?site...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to submissions.ask.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Microsoft
http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to www.moreover.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Total Execution Time 0:0.3112

I have spent hours reading through as many posts as I can and still can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

I have Zen 1.3.8a and installed the sitemapxml v 2.1.0. I uploaded the files, then the first time, I ran the sql patch by uploading the file, but then I read that you have to copy and past the file using wordpad, then click send. I went to admin>config> and set the language file to false, I went to tools>sitemap xml> I then get this error
"The requested URL /admin/FILENAME_SITEMAPXML.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

My sitemap files in the root are empty. I have no idea what to do next. Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

I tried putting my site into a different xml sitemap generator and it came back with zenids at the end of each path. However, I did not upload this file to my site, I only looked.

My site is located at www. c o o k i e t o p p e r s .com

I appreciate your help!

Hello,
My sitemapindex.xml is generated empty, all other XML files ar OK.
I also tried older version (Google Sitemap) no changes.

sitemapindex.xml -

HTML Code:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="includes/templates/template_default/css/gss.xsl"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
        http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd"
        xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<!-- generator="Zen-Cart SitemapXML" v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35 -->
</sitemapindex>

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I have zen-cart running on other hosting where Google Sitemap is working perfectly.

Maybe somebody faced the same issue? Maybe there is special requirement for php or apache?

Good addition! - one thing .. you say that it supports hideCategories.. I'm just trying to figure out how I can hide a category from being picked up.. any pointers?

_thanks

I've installed Sitemap XML vs2 successfully previously and all was well.

I have now installed on a new zencart site and it works ok but there is no entry under configuration!!!!

any ideas what the problem could be?

Im going to install this sitemap on my PC's localhost, so i can test before installing on the live site.

Does this contribution automatically send off a sitemap to search engines when installed?...as I dont want google and others receiving sitemaps for my localhost site!?

or

does this contrib just make the sitemap itself and then to send off to the search engines you have to set up cron job?

Thanks :smile:

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Originally Posted by gaffettape

as I dont want google and others receiving sitemaps for my localhost site!?

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Obviously after testing you install on live site.
Yes, contib automates creation of sitemaps.
You can either submit from admin in two steps anytime or set up cron job.

Thanks for the reply ckosloff,

So just to confirm, I'm right in thinking this contrib does NOT send off any sitemaps automatically... I have to initiate the process... correct?

Thanks.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by gaffettape

Thanks for the reply ckosloff,

So just to confirm, I'm right in thinking this contrib does NOT send off any sitemaps automatically... I have to initiate the process... correct?

Thanks.

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Yes.. there are two steps in this mod.
1. Create
2. Submit

Thanks for your answers guys :smile:

Still no answer about my problem from the 12th of November, anyone know please...

Is anyone able to help me please, I regularly use the this add on to submit my site map to the powers that be...only for the first time it has malfunctioned, and gives me the following error, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. RR

SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Ping
Ping Google
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to www.google.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Yahoo!
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExpl...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to search.yahooapis.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Ask.com
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?site...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to submissions.ask.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Microsoft
http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to www.moreover.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Total Execution Time 0:0.3112

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Renz

Still no answer about my problem from the 12th of November, anyone know please...

Is anyone able to help me please, I regularly use the this add on to submit my site map to the powers that be...only for the first time it has malfunctioned, and gives me the following error, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. RR

SiteMapXML (v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35)
Ping
Ping Google
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to www.google.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Yahoo!
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExpl...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to search.yahooapis.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Ask.com
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?site...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to submissions.ask.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Ping Microsoft
http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%...temapindex.xml
cURL Error: "Failed to connect to www.moreover.com IP number 1: Permission denied" reading "http://www.moreover.com/ping?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adulttoys4u.com.au%2Fshop%2Fsitemapindex.xml"
Total Execution Time 0:0.3112

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The answer to this was simple in the end, it's nothing I did and nothing broke, the server guys decided to block outgoing requests for security reasons, (IP Blocking in connections manager) I just wished they told clients...anyway put a tick in the allow and whammo!!!..:clap:

Can anyone shed any light on why a CRON job for Sitemaps is returning this message:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>406 Not Acceptable</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Acceptable</h1>
<p>An appropriate representation of the requested resource /index.php could not be found on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>

Everyting is installed correctly and Google is indexing the sitemaps. Everything except Yahoo seems to be working fine.

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Originally Posted by kennyb227

I have spent hours reading through as many posts as I can and still can't figure out what I am doing wrong.

I have Zen 1.3.8a and installed the sitemapxml v 2.1.0. I uploaded the files, then the first time, I ran the sql patch by uploading the file, but then I read that you have to copy and past the file using wordpad, then click send. I went to admin>config> and set the language file to false, I went to tools>sitemap xml> I then get this error
"The requested URL /admin/FILENAME_SITEMAPXML.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

My sitemap files in the root are empty. I have no idea what to do next. Please tell me what I am doing wrong.

I tried putting my site into a different xml sitemap generator and it came back with zenids at the end of each path. However, I did not upload this file to my site, I only looked.

My site is located at www. c o o k i e t o p p e r s .com

I appreciate your help!

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I have exactly the same problem. Did you find the answer to this?

Just installed. Didn't seem to have any problems and it looked like everything was going fine until I started playing around with the settings. It appears nothing is working in the configuration area. I've tried changing Lastmod tag format, Generate language_id for default language, and Category changefreq and none of them cause the xml files to be any different.

During each change I completely deleted the xml files as leaving them be would not cause them to be updated because nothing had changed.

1.3.8a zencart with SSU installed.

I guess I'll try looking at install.sql and the internal files for Sitemap and try to figure out why nothing is being picked up.

Anthony

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Originally Posted by llynix

I guess I'll try looking at install.sql and the internal files for Sitemap and try to figure out why nothing is being picked up.

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Well I think I got it licked. I thought perhaps I'd try uninstalling / installing the .sql again and see if that helped. But instead of using Zen Carts internal SQL patcher I used good ole phpmyadmin.

Got an error.. none of the tables were right since my cart uses a db prefix. So I fixed this in the SQL and the uninstall went through.

Fixing this for the install.sql seemed to do the trick. It installed just fine.

One note however. If you generate a sitemap, then change a configuration, manually delete that sitemap before you generate a new one. Otherwise the old one stays around because there was nothing to update.

Anthony

hi, I was going through the sitemap, and it has
http://www.ecigexpress.com/shop/elec...-2/language/en

I would like for it not to have the /language/en there -

How can I get rid of the /language/en ?

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Originally Posted by llynix

One note however. If you generate a sitemap, then change a configuration, manually delete that sitemap before you generate a new one. Otherwise the old one stays around because there was nothing to update.

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readme.txt:

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Support 4 $_GET parameters:
... skipped ...
rebuild=yes - force rebuild all sitemap*.xml files.

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

Yes.. there are two steps in this mod.
1. Create
2. Submit

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You can join this two steps. readme.txt:

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Support 4 $_GET parameters:
ping=yes - Pinging Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com and Microsoft.

inline=yes - output file sitemapindex.xml. In Google Webmaster Tools you can define your "Sitemap URL":
http://your_domain/index.php?main_pa...xml&inline=yes
And every time Google will get http://your_domain/index.php?main_page=sitemapxml he will receive a fresh sitemapindex.xml.

genxml=no - don't generate xml-files.

rebuild=yes - force rebuild all sitemap*.xml files.

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Quick question... Do I need to create and register accounts with all the search engines the sitemaps are submitted to?

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by gaffettape

Quick question... Do I need to create and register accounts with all the search engines the sitemaps are submitted to?

Thanks.

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It helps :P It'll take all of about 30 minutes.

I've found that making a 'seoadmin@yourwebsite. om' email account and using that for the SEO sign-ups, reply, verif emails comes in handy.

I also use WebCEO (free) for checking the pages, optimization, ranking, etc. and there's a submission tool within it as well. A lot of the other engines require an email address so they can send a verification email to - so the seoadmin@ (or whatever...) is nice to have.

Have fun.

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Originally Posted by Fez-o Joe

It helps :P It'll take all of about 30 minutes.

I've found that making a 'seoadmin@yourwebsite. om' email account and using that for the SEO sign-ups, reply, verif emails comes in handy.

I also use WebCEO (free) for checking the pages, optimization, ranking, etc. and there's a submission tool within it as well. A lot of the other engines require an email address so they can send a verification email to - so the seoadmin@ (or whatever...) is nice to have.

Have fun.

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Thanks for the reply & also the heads up on WebCEO :smile:

I've got a wierd problem with this wonderful addon.

Suddenly all my products shows double in the sitemap. All other pages just once, but all my products twice.

What is wrong?

.. I wish I had that problem! .. with mine the categories show up in google but the individual products don't - has anyone experienced this? .. if so what should I do to fix it?

_thanks

anyone had a problem with the sitemaps for google merchant center? When I try to upload them myself it says "disapproved". But when I ping it from the admin it says it was successful but I'm still not getting my many products listed. In complete contrary to this yahoo is doing the opposite - they say that the sitemaps were processed yet it says there was CURL error when I ping yahoo - I can't find anything of my site with their searches.

Can anyone assist with this?

Thanks_

I had a problem getting ours recognized since we have 'non-standard' product headings - and had to look at the google 'product description tree' to decide where our products fit, then make a hard edit of the xml file before uploading manually... and got all the products up and listed.

We were getting that same message until we submitted with the right product category.

I asked about where in the php it sets that, since I'd just do a replace - but no one has answered that yet. (it'd make my life a tad bit easier, and allow the automated cron job to work.)

Good luck - hope that answers it.

Have fun.

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Originally Posted by g_force

anyone had a problem with the sitemaps for google merchant center? When I try to upload them myself it says "disapproved". But when I ping it from the admin it says it was successful but I'm still not getting my many products listed. In complete contrary to this yahoo is doing the opposite - they say that the sitemaps were processed yet it says there was CURL error when I ping yahoo - I can't find anything of my site with their searches.

Can anyone assist with this?

Thanks_

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The sitemap is NOT a GoogleBase file. You have to use something like Google Base Feeder to create the file for Merchant Center.
JOhn ><>

*whoops* - yeah... what he said... I'm getting my Zen threads crossed. The Base Feeder works well.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by g_force

In complete contrary to this yahoo is doing the opposite - they say that the sitemaps were processed yet it says there was CURL error when I ping yahoo - I can't find anything of my site with their searches.

Can anyone assist with this?

Thanks_

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This an issue with Yahoo. I had the same issue for several weeks before they started accepting the pings from two of my sites.
JOhn ><>

.. Thanks for the responses so far ..

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The sitemap is NOT a GoogleBase file. You have to use something like Google Base Feeder to create the file for Merchant Center.

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Is that something that I can automate in google? I have a lot of products so wouldn't want to have to produce it manually - that is what I thought this add on was for.

_thanks

Quote:

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Originally Posted by g_force

Is that something that I can automate in google?

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The issue with yahoo has already been discussed lengthily in this thread.
There is a mod called Google Base Feeder with its own support thread.
SitemapXML is not for that purpose.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by g_force

.. Thanks for the responses so far ..



Is that something that I can automate in google? I have a lot of products so wouldn't want to have to produce it manually - that is what I thought this add on was for.

_thanks

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by ckosloff

The issue with yahoo has already been discussed lengthily in this thread.
There is a mod called Google Base Feeder with its own support thread.
SitemapXML is not for that purpose.

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Ckosloff is right.. This mod serves a completely different purpose.. additionally though both mods generate an XML file. Google's requirements for the contents of the Google Merchant XML feeds are quite different than the XML sitemap files generated by this mod. In essence, you will need to do both mods..

Hi,
I've read through all the pages but it seems a few people have the same problem as I do but there is no answer.

In the URL's in the sitemap I get language=en added to all, it doesn't matter if Generate language_id for default language is on or off either?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers!

I don't know what I messed up....but I killed my website.

I installed Sitemap according to the instructions in the readme, carefully followed the directions and moved everything into the correct directories - but I didn't read this thread first, so I didn't know that I shouldn't have uploaded the install.sql file (instead of copy/paste). My admin login and functionality works fine, but the store comes up completely blank....

I deleted every Sitemap file and ran the uninstall.sql, but of course that didn't bring back the store. I also checked all the standard files for the store that I know about - but I am not a ZenCart (or a website) genius, so there must be something I am missing....

Someone please help! :oops:

Quote:

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Originally Posted by ckosloff

Regarding this pesky Yahoo thing, I have been giving it some thought.
First, let me say that it is happy for me now, and I have the %s back in there.
So, whether you use the variable or not should not make a difference.
A 403 error means the server is denying access, it is basically saying "forbidden", therefore a full authentication process should fix this, since they want to verify that the owner of the site is pinging and not someone else, possibly to prevent DoS attacks.
Also, you do have to update your sitemap before pinging.
If manually you hit repeatedly step 2 in Tools -> Sitemap XML, Yahoo will throw the damn error, the other SE will not complain.
But, if you hit step 1 first and then step 2, it will be happy.
I have my cron set to do this automatically, according to instructions, so it is happy now.
I think I got the error back because that day I was testing the thing a lot, and missing step 1.
I think Yahoo got burned since the last DoS attack and are now overly cautious.
For the moment, I would say that the fix is authentication + updating.
Hopefully.

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Not just yahoo, I get an 403 error from google also. This just started to happen. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by armyabn1

I don't know what I messed up....but I killed my website.

I installed Sitemap according to the instructions in the readme, carefully followed the directions and moved everything into the correct directories - but I didn't read this thread first, so I didn't know that I shouldn't have uploaded the install.sql file (instead of copy/paste). My admin login and functionality works fine, but the store comes up completely blank....

I deleted every Sitemap file and ran the uninstall.sql, but of course that didn't bring back the store. I also checked all the standard files for the store that I know about - but I am not a ZenCart (or a website) genius, so there must be something I am missing....

Someone please help! :oops:

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NEVERMIND....figured it out..... I had placed a META tag in the wrong header file.....

didn't know that would crash the whole system :shocking: