SitemapXML v.2

[top hatt]

Hi:

I have installed the sitemapxml addon and have a question. I am using 1.5.0.

If I use a cron job to update and ping every day do I need to add the sitemap to the robots.txt file also?

Dave

[a_berezin]

Hi Dave,

Hi:

I have installed the sitemapxml addon and have a question. I am using 1.5.0.

If I use a cron job to update and ping every day do I need to add the sitemap to the robots.txt file also?

Dave

All this is not necessary, it helps a little robots.

If you add an address to the sitemap to robots.txt, then it will find all of the search engine spiders.

If you are new daily sitemap, sitemap is always relevant, and all robots will be able to obtain relevant information.

If you ping the search engine changes in the sitemap xml, it can be, if you are very important to him, will take into account these changes and upload them is the planned bypass site. Which I doubt it.

[Jerry5763837]

Hi, Andrew,

that's a great mod, and so appreicated!

there is one question. is it possible to change priority for categories, or produtcts?
OR possible to keep same priority for category, and same priority for products?
e.x. 0.8 for all categories, and 0.5 for all procuts.

your suggestion would be highly appreciated.

[a_berezin]

Hi,

is it possible to change priority for categories, or produtcts?

No.

OR possible to keep same priority for category, and same priority for products?
e.x. 0.8 for all categories, and 0.5 for all procuts.

1. You can not do the same priority - Google sees this as a bug.
2. Do not assume that this tag is so important.

[masterrusty]

I just ran a check on my site map using http://validator.w3.org it came up with the following:

Missing "charset" attribute for "text/xml" document.

The detected character encoding "us-ascii" has been suppressed and "utf-8" used instead.

No DOCTYPE found! Checking XML syntax only.

As a result of those errors(?) it said:

The document located at <https://www.fantasycostume.com/sitem...approducts.xml> was tentatively checked as XML. This means that with the use of some fallback or override mechanism, we successfully performed a formal validation of it. In other words, the document would validate as XML if you changed the markup to match the changes we have performed automatically, but it will not be valid until you make these changes. The parser implementations we used for this check are based on OpenSP (SGML/XML) and libxml2 (XML).

Can we get that info into the sitemap that Sitemap XML generates?

MRusty

[ShopVille]

Hello,

I have the mod running on my 1.5.0 shop however i'm constantly getting emails (via the email on 404 mod) that search engines reached a page-not-found page, and it is when they are trying to find the sitemap,

Here is one of the emails i get (this one is from bing bot)

A user at host address [msnbot-65-55-213-192.search.msn.com] with IP address
[65.55.213.192] generated a 404 using the query string
[/sitemap/sitemap.xml].

[a_berezin]

Hi,

Hello,

I have the mod running on my 1.5.0 shop however i'm constantly getting emails (via the email on 404 mod) that search engines reached a page-not-found page, and it is when they are trying to find the sitemap,

Here is one of the emails i get (this one is from bing bot)

Indeed, the file should not be - /sitemap/sitemap.xml. Why a robot looking for it you have there?
What is the address you gave sitemap search engine?
What is the address specified in the sitemap robots.txt?

[SPH]

Indeed, the file should not be - /sitemap/sitemap.xml. Why a robot looking for it you have there?

I was going to post the same thing, as I have noticed in my admin who's online google trying to look at sitemap/sitemap.xml and when I click on it from admin it goes to a page not found. So right now I don't know that my google sitemap it doing me any good, and maybe even doing harm.

Is this because the product, category, etc. sitemap files are now in the sitemap folder instead of the root?

ZC 1.5.1

[a_berezin]

I was going to post the same thing, as I have noticed in my admin who's online google trying to look at sitemap/sitemap.xml and when I click on it from admin it goes to a page not found. So right now I don't know that my google sitemap it doing me any good, and maybe even doing harm.

Is this because the product, category, etc. sitemap files are now in the sitemap folder instead of the root?

ZC 1.5.1

It is difficult to suggest anything if you do not even want to answer the questions:

What is the address you gave sitemap search engine?
What is the address specified in the sitemap robots.txt?

I looked at your http://www.prommart.com/robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /*zenid=

User-agent: ##########spider
Disallow: /

Sitemap: http://www.prommart.com/sitemap.xml

Sitemap: http://www.prommart.com/sitemap/sitemapproducts.xml

Sitemap: http://www.prommart.com/sitemap/sitemapcategories.xml

Who advised you to do it? Why three sitemap? You did not read that you recommend to the admin sitemapxml?

[SPH]

Who advised you to do it? Why three sitemap? You did not read that you recommend to the admin sitemapxml?

Thank you. I removed the products and categories sitemap urls from my robots.txt and also removed the products sitemap from google webmasters (which did go to the correct link.)

So now my robots.txt says:

Sitemap: http://www.prommart.com/sitemap.xml

And sitemap.xml is the only sitemap in google webmasters.

Thanks for pointing out my operator error. :)