SitemapXML v.2

[SPH]

Zen Cart 1.3.8a. I am seeing and extra "amp;" before cPath in the sitemap URLs. For example:

<!-- generator="Zen-Cart SitemapXML" v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35 -->
<url>
<loc>http://www.lonestarpopcorn.com/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=1071_1231</loc>
<lastmod>2010-09-09</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
</url>

When I put this category URL in the browser, I get the home page. When I remove the extra "amp;" then I get the category page. When I put in the one for products, I get "product not found". Remove the "amp;" and I get the product page.

It is the same with categories, products and EZ page sitemaps.

Has anyone seen this?

Yes, it is how it works.

Looking at your sitemapproducts.xml in my browser, the links are accurate, just the "&"

Viewing source code it is "&amp;", which is the correct code for "&".

Just researched this today myself with regard to this mod. (I knew from past html experience that &amp; is code for &)

[jabbawest]

Zen Cart 1.3.8a. I am seeing and extra "amp;" before cPath in the sitemap URLs. For example:

<!-- generator="Zen-Cart SitemapXML" v 2.1.0 30.04.2009 10:35 -->
<url>
<loc>http://www.lonestarpopcorn.com/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=1071_1231</loc>
<lastmod>2010-09-09</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
</url>

When I put this category URL in the browser, I get the home page. When I remove the extra "amp;" then I get the category page. When I put in the one for products, I get "product not found". Remove the "amp;" and I get the product page.

It is the same with categories, products and EZ page sitemaps.

Has anyone seen this?

You might want to look into another cause as I recently went through the same issue.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=163503

Turning off the following in Admin>Config>Index Listing
finally fixed the problem.
Show New Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page 0
Show Featured Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page 0
Show Special Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page 0
Show Upcoming Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page 0

[SPH]

Well, I am still hoping someone knows how to fix this because for everyone using 1.3.9 this is a real issue.

With Zen Cart 1.3.9, it now generates a canonical url (which includes the cPath for all product). However the url that is generated by the sitemap does not include the cPath for the product url.

It will be nice to have a sitemap that is generating a consistent url to the one that we are passing to the search engines as the canonical url.

Thanks!

I have two similar sites that I recently put this google sitmap mod on. One is dynamic url's*; the other is simple seo url mod.

The dynamic urls do not show category in the site map.

The simple seo urls DO show the category in the site map.

I'm going to see which performs better. Right now, my older site with dynamic urls can be at top of google for many products; with the newer simple seo url site right below. Sometimes, reversed.

My main thing is to see how this sitemap mod works in general. In past, I kinda custom built my sitemaps and it worked. But this mod, if it works, is much faster.

I did have to change an admin setting to have products list in DESC order, so latest product uploads are at top of sitemap with highest page relevance number.

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* Dynamic url site is older and originally had Magic SEO urls, which worked great but stopped with upgrade to 1.3.9 series. Rather than buying again, I'm trying the zen cart simple seo and sitemap mods...testing against just dynamic urls...which surprisingly are performing well.

**Another thing: I notice that the dynamic url site (my main site), in the google search results the link often shows category as "0". Not sure why.

***I almost keep forgetting when doing this google sitemap mod on my sites to amend the includes/htaccess file to read xsl.

[lat9]

Re: Getting the cPath variable into products' sitemapxml links

I've got category-specific formatting for my products, so the cPath variable is a necessity for my product links. You can add this to the generated product links by editing /includes/pages/sitemapxml/sitemapxml_products.php (line 35 for v2.1.0):

    $link = zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($products->fields['products_id']), 'cPath=' . zen_get_products_category_id($products->fields['products_id']) . '&products_id=' . $products->fields['products_id'] . $langParm, 'NONSSL', false);

[gaffettape]

Re: Getting the cPath variable into products' sitemapxml links

I've got category-specific formatting for my products, so the cPath variable is a necessity for my product links. You can add this to the generated product links by editing /includes/pages/sitemapxml/sitemapxml_products.php (line 35 for v2.1.0):

    $link = zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($products->fields['products_id']), 'cPath=' . zen_get_products_category_id($products->fields['products_id']) . '&products_id=' . $products->fields['products_id'] . $langParm, 'NONSSL', false);

Thanks buddy ... I've been wanting to get this sorted for a while now. Nice one

[SPH]

Yes, thanks!

[Stevis2002]

Hi all, Could somebody help me out please.

I have generated the sitemaps via admin and there are 6 sitemaps....

..sitemapindex.xml
sitemapcategories.xml
sitemapproducts.xml
sitemapezpages.xml
sitemapreviews.xml
sitemaptestimonials.xml

.... Which one do i have to submit/specify in robots.txt?

Many Thanks

[p1lot]

should i enable or disable "use existing files", plugin works great, im just wondering whats the best choice here.

is it also possible to disable one specific category and one specific product?

thanks in advance :)

[countrycharm]

should i enable or disable "use existing files", plugin works great, im just wondering whats the best choice here.

is it also possible to disable one specific category and one specific product?

thanks in advance :)

If you update your store often set it to false so the sitemap will update it's self. If you don't add add new products don't worry about it.

[Nintendoparts]

Hi all, Could somebody help me out please.

I have generated the sitemaps via admin and there are 6 sitemaps....

..sitemapindex.xml
sitemapcategories.xml
sitemapproducts.xml
sitemapezpages.xml
sitemapreviews.xml
sitemaptestimonials.xml

.... Which one do i have to submit/specify in robots.txt?

Many Thanks

I would also like to know the answer to this. Should we be submitting every single sitemap, or just the sitemapindex.xml?

Also should we be submitting sitemaps for

www.oursite.com and oursite.com

or just one of them? I've heard we should submit both variations to google.