Now one thing I have done prior is add CSS Flyout Menu 1.3.9 for a category side box.
Is this messing it up or what could I be missing here please?Well I finally realized a could turn off the CSS Flyout Menu as a test and just did so. I then put on my regular category side box but I still get the same results.
So that's not it. :dontgetit

Well, I tried logging into store with Explorer instead of my faithful ol FireFox and did not get my warnings in the Step 1. popup as quoted in my prior Dec. 22, 10 post.

And resubmitted (Step 2) and low and behold, Google "and Yahoo" accepted it, but not Ask (cURL Error: "couldn't connect to host" reading ....)
or
Microsoft (cURL Error: Error http_code "404" reading ....)

I just wanted Google to work for now, not sure of that yet, need to see go there and find out. But Yahoo was a plus, and no popup errors:smile:

I thought it may help those who are just using FireFox to get past this stage. Now on to the rest..... or get some rest, whatever.

I installed this sitemap generator and its generating data into the category and the products files.

My problem is that the only file mentioned in sitemapindex is the category file.

I dont know why the coding in sitemapindex doesnt also include the product file.

Any ideas ?

Ive now got this to work, more by luck, recopied some of the code again and changed admin/config to Use Existing Files = false

Id already tried changing this parameter and copying up the code again, but this time it put both the product and category file into the sitemap.

Hallo,

I am trying to use the Sitemapxml-2.1.0 module.

I have an issue with pinging:

Although google seems to be working OK, all the others do not. I get the following message:

Ping Yahoo!
cURL Error: Error http_code "403" reading "<submitted url>"

Ping Ask.com
cURL Error: "couldn't connect to host" reading "<submitted url>"

Ping Microsoft
cURL Error: Error http_code "404" reading "<submitted url>"

I have googled a bit and I think that the default urls are correct.

Yahoo, seems to be shutting down this service from December 2010:

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/updateNotification.html

However, the curl errors should not be relevant to it, since the other services seem to be working OK. Do I miss a step or something?

Kind regards,
orange_juice

Hello All, I installed Sitemap XML... When I click [HERE] to create the sitemap window pops up and it starts creating the sitemap after about 6 minutes it stops and loads the page not found page.. I looked at the xml file and it started creating the file but never finished.. Any ideas of what might be going on.. Thanks for all your input..

orange_juice:

Hallo,

I am trying to use the Sitemapxml-2.1.0 module.

I have an issue with pinging:

Although google seems to be working OK, all the others do not. I get the following message:

Ping Yahoo!
cURL Error: Error http_code "403" reading "<submitted url>"

Ping Ask.com
cURL Error: "couldn't connect to host" reading "<submitted url>"

Ping Microsoft
cURL Error: Error http_code "404" reading "<submitted url>"

The line that I have inserted in my 
admin -> configuration -> sitemap XML -> Ping Urls 
and works best, is the following:

Google => http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=%s; Yahoo! => http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=%s; Ask.com => http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=%s; Bing.com => http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=%s

Yahoo has changed its address
Moreover has ceased working
Ask.com has a timeout issue with its servers.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Kind regards,
orange_juice

I've used this mod for a while, but only recently took a better look at it. I was able to submit my sitemap to Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, but not Ask. Ask returned an "error 111".

Should the ping urls for those search engines be set to sitemapindex.xml, or sitemap.xml? I noticed the default was sitemap.xml, but when I changed it to sitemapindex.xml, Microsoft still worked, while the other two (that had been working) no longer did.

The sitemapindex file point to the bunch of other sitemap files that are created by this module. I would think this is a better place to point the search engines.

Anyone with any help, thanks....

Ok, this makes sitemaps. and Google finds them.
But all my urls are not produced right like before I upgraded.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled scripts including the old and this new version to no avail. Checked the files...

So, is this contribution working for anyone who has upgraded to 1.3.9h?

And if so, is there a code change needed?
(and Yes I read this thread a lot and I am still "Lost", with no cool intro and theme music to entice me to continue on and I do apologize if I am not seeing an obvious clue)

So far- clean install 1.3.9h, +
Image handler v2_0
FCKeditor
CSS Flyout Menu
Simple_google_analytics_1-2-3

Any ideas please, is it just me or is there more to this?:dontgetit
Thank you,

ckosloff:

Old version is right below new version, it's ZC team policy to publish this way, precisely to prevent these issues.
I must be quite dense but what do you mean by below it. In the download section?
Sorry

danilyn22:

Also what I noticed as well is when it generates the product URL's it inserts this & in place of &. That makes all my Links not work. I had to go through and Find and replace all of those &. How can I get it to use the correct symbol?

So far, manually changing my sitemaps to repair all the urls inserts of & to a & was my only solution that I could find to make the links work.
I wish I could learn more about code to help with this but I can barely keep up with just the other store needs.
Good luck

rjspomer:

I must be quite dense but what do you mean by below it. In the download section?

It easy to over look somethings, I am doing it daily.
In the "Free Software Add Ons" a contributor's first or older version remains available below the latest and newest version for downloading. This is very helpful as you upgrade and you may need to go back and see what files you may have installed or want to use an older version of the Add On with an older Zen. The later I highly do not recommend, go with 1.3.9h.
I keep a file of all my add ons per cart version, clear back to my first Zen Cart, but sometimes it helps to look at the original files again in download area just in case one may have overlooked something or why it was changed up.

sachith:

Invalid URLs in the site map

I've installed simple seo url with link alias on. When I generate the sitemaps all my products URLs are generated as follows.

http://www.mysite.co.uk/-c-0/products_name1
http://www.mysite.co.uk/-c-0/products_name2
http://www.mysite.co.uk/-c-0/products_name3

etc

But the categories URLs are correct.

Have I done something wrong ? Can someone help me to fix this error.

Many Thanks

This happens because your products do not have the master ID set.

You need to go to Admin -> Tools -> Store Manager
and "Reset ALL Products Master Categories ID" and then "Update ALL Products Price Sorter"

However be careful if you have linked products:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=936862&postcount=27

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=937028&postcount=30

Kind regards,
orange_juice

Hello,
Please advise how is this mod better than simply generating a regular sitemap.xml online and uploading it under google webmaster?
Many thanks!

Justwade:

So far, manually changing my sitemaps to repair all the urls inserts of & to a & was my only solution that I could find to make the links work.
I wish I could learn more about code to help with this but I can barely keep up with just the other store needs.
Good luck
Proper XML is &, <, and > so this mod is correct. The problem lies in the SEO conversion scripts .htaccess file. It is converting out the & as superfluous. Changing the handling of this in the .htaccess file is done at your own risk. I remember a comment of a certain SEO mod in the readme for this mod.
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Red Baron

I am using 1.3.9h on 2 zencart stores. I had no issues running Sitemap XML. I do not remember having to make any code changes. I did, however, change the Ping URL's to this, which was provided in this thread and everything worked perfectly. Thanks

Google => http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=%s; Yahoo! => http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=%s; Ask.com => http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=%s; Bing.com => http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=%s

How do I delete the old Google Sitemap? As I have both appear side by side.

Thanks

is there anyway to order my product sitemap by price instead of date added? i use easy populate so my products are all generaly updated at th same time?

Zean:

Yes. That is probably your most important page.

I understand that the author said he thought define pages were archaic and are not supported in this mod, maybe they are a bit aged. But I see that the Zen Cart 1.3.9h is still using a define page for home index. Has everybody figured out how to make an EZ pages their home page? I haven't and I am surprised at the very few mentioned posts in here such as from Zean in August of 2009.:huh:

So, if I was to try and patch in my important "define pages"urls in say the EZ-pages xml that is generated, does anyone think that would work? (That is after I learn how to do it).

I've uploaded SitemapXML following the instructions, however I'm up to step 4 and cannot find google XML sitemap listed under Tools, what am I doing wrong?

Install:

1. Unzip and upload all files to your store directory;
2. Go to Admin->Tools->Install SQL Patches and install install.sql.
3. Go to Admin->Configuration->Google Sitemap Configuration and setup all parameters
4. Go to Admin->Tools>Google XML Sitemap (If error messages occur, change permissions on the XML files to 777);
5. To have this update and automatically notify Google, you will need to set up a Cron
   job via your host's control panel.