Google SitemapAdmin

Just wondering if someone can lead me in the right direction. I've downloaded the google sitemap for zencart and I get this after I press send:

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Google Sitemap Generation (v 1.3.19 20.04.2008 17:24) started

Save path - "/home/bendissk/public_html/"
Base URL - "http://www.bendisskin.com/"
File "robots.txt" not found in save path - "/home/my_id/public_html/robots.txt"

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Not sure if this is a problem as I'm new to this...

Secondly, I checked my xml files (sitemapcategories.xml, sitemapezpages.xml, sitemapindex.xml, sitemapproducts.xml) and nothing was in those files... they were all blank. I assume these need to have the sitemap code. Is this because I don't have the robots.txt file like I listed above? Thanks for your help in advance!

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Originally Posted by sfklaas

Just wondering if someone can lead me in the right direction. I've downloaded the google sitemap for zencart and I get this after I press send:



Not sure if this is a problem as I'm new to this...

Secondly, I checked my xml files (sitemapcategories.xml, sitemapezpages.xml, sitemapindex.xml, sitemapproducts.xml) and nothing was in those files... they were all blank. I assume these need to have the sitemap code. Is this because I don't have the robots.txt file like I listed above? Thanks for your help in advance!

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If you use Googles Webmaster tools for tracking your sitemap within Google, it can create the robots.txt for you- Otherwise search back to earlier posts in this thread- there are a couple of robots.txt templates that you can use.

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Originally Posted by cjeb456

Hi all

Getting this message when I do Tools -> Google XML Sitemap...




Can anyone help?

I have all the admin files in the correct place

Then I have...
googlesitemap.php in root/admin/
gss/xsl in root/admin
sitemapcategories.xml in root/
sitemapezpages.xml in root/
sitemapindex.xml in root/
sitemapproducts.xml in root/

Is this correct?

Thanks

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That's rather serious as it indicates that you are missing a ZenCart Core File (includes/functions/functions_lookups.php). I would check out your ZenCart install and make sure it completed okay.

In Google Webmaster tools, I get this error:

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XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.bendisskin.com/sitemapezpages.xml
Line Number 23, Column 65: <loc>http://www.bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=0</loc>
----------------------------------------------------------------^

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If its just this link, I can take that off the sitemap and i'm sure thats an easy fix. But I was curious why it gave me this error. Anyone have any ideas or saw this before? Should I just go ahead and delete this link from my sitemapezpage.xml?

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Originally Posted by sfklaas

In Google Webmaster tools, I get this error:

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XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.bendisskin.com/sitemapezpages.xml
Line Number 23, Column 65: <loc>http://www.bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=0</loc>

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Google Sitemap v 1.3.19 does not make so crazy sitemapezpages.xml file:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="gss.xsl"?>
<urlset 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/sitemap.xsd"
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=page&amp;id=2</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.bendisskin.com</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=0</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=page&amp;id=17</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=page&amp;id=22</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=page&amp;id=23</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=2</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=3</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=4</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=1</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=5</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=8</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=9</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=6</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=7</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.bendisskin.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=10</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

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Google Sitemap v 1.3.19 does not make so crazy sitemapezpages.xml file:

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Ok... I just realized that there are 3 update files that came with the download. "Update_1_3_2.SQL, Update_1_3_3.SQL, Update_1_3_4.SQL." Should I go ahead and install them through the Install SQL Patches? Copy and paste rather than upload the entire files? Will that fix the problem you were referring to?

Also, I used ezpage links for the products so I could change the style of the links easier. Thats why the "product=id" links are listed in the ezpage urls. Is this causing the problem do you think?

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Originally Posted by sfklaas

I used ezpage links for the products so I could change the style of the links easier. Thats why the "product=id" links are listed in the ezpage urls.

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Wow! I even could not imagine this! Interesting. Sorry for my comments :oops:

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Originally Posted by sfklaas

Is this causing the problem do you think?

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I think that is my bug. :frusty:

Fix it in the old version is difficult and it makes no sense. Better to take the new version. Send me email and I resend you a new SitemapXml.

Sent you an e-mail through zencart... if I don't hear from you with a few days, I'll also send you a PM... Thanks for looking into that!

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Originally Posted by hem

That's rather serious as it indicates that you are missing a ZenCart Core File (includes/functions/functions_lookups.php). I would check out your ZenCart install and make sure it completed okay.

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Hi

That file exists and the rest of zen cart is working perfectly, just not the google sitemap mod

Do you have any other ideas please?

Many thanks