Google SitemapAdmin

Im kind of stuck aswell..

for the files as asked by zbargain i assumed they where meant for the root.. I did put every file in, and since im using swedish language-pack i copied the files in the english folder to the swedish one.

First i could not even click the tools/Google XML Sitemap without getting an "internal error". But then all of a sudden i can get in to the "Google XML Sitemap Admin" but there i only get internal error again when i click the step 1 to create a sitemap..

i did change permissions on the 4 xml-files to 777.

zbargin -->
If you have the menu items for google sitemaps in the admin area I'd assume the SQL patch installed correctly.

The rest of the files are to go into the root directory. This mod will not work without them. After you copy the files into there - you may need to change the permissions on the 4 .xml files. (before resorting to using 777 see if it works as is after just copying the files into the root directory)
-Scott

To answer myself. Just sit back, relax and all will be ok..

thats what i did, and all of a sudden it worked. Without me changing anything at all. This is a spooky mod, but in the end worked just fine.

i seem to have an error with this mod.

the mod seems to be creating a the files on my server however i cant open them and recieve an error.

http://www.rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/store/sitemaps/sitemapindex.xml

also google cant seem to find the maps on my server even though im telling it exactally where it is.

maybe this mod might only work with zencart that are in the root and not a seportate foulder

You have the wrong location...

You sitemaps are located here (which will work if you are only including urls inside of /store/):
http://www.rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/store/sitemapindex.xml
but I like to put mine here (root):
http://www.rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/sitemapindex.xml

Since Google is the big one it's best to follow their directions:
"Upload your Sitemap to your site in the highest level directory you want search engines to crawl, generally the root. If you list URLs in your Sitemap that are at a higher level than your Sitemap location, Google will be unable to include those URLs as part of the Sitemap submission."

smb:

zbargin -->
If you have the menu items for google sitemaps in the admin area I'd assume the SQL patch installed correctly.

The rest of the files are to go into the root directory. This mod will not work without them. After you copy the files into there - you may need to change the permissions on the 4 .xml files. (before resorting to using 777 see if it works as is after just copying the files into the root directory)
-Scott

Thanks Scott,
I uploaded all 6 files to the root. Everything seems to have worked being set at 644 :flex::smartalec:. Well everything except the Yahoo submission, but I'm 99% sure that I'm not setup to do anything with Yahoo. (doing this as I type; seems to have worked, waiting for the crawl).

Anybody know how to do MSN. I read this in the Tools>Google Sitemap Admin

• For Moreover.com (MSN) you must Specifying the Sitemap location in your robots.txt file.What should be in the robots.txt file & how do I specify the sitemap location in my robots.txt file? :blush: I don't have a robots.txt file (I don't think; not in my root dir anyways).

thanks in advance,
Lenny

smb:

You have the wrong location...

You sitemaps are located here (which will work if you are only including urls inside of /store/):
http://www.rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/store/sitemapindex.xml
but I like to put mine here (root):
http://www.rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/sitemapindex.xml

Since Google is the big one it's best to follow their directions:
"Upload your Sitemap to your site in the highest level directory you want search engines to crawl, generally the root. If you list URLs in your Sitemap that are at a higher level than your Sitemap location, Google will be unable to include those URLs as part of the Sitemap submission."

thats the problem, the site map genorator wont put then in the root as it will only put them within the root of of the store. id have to goin via ftp and move the file manually, which is basically not the point.

i have gone to google and regestered in my site as well as rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk ive regestered rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/store and the maps are in here and google finds them ok now. dont know what this will do to my google listing though.

Hi,

First of thanks for this wounderful module.

I need some help with an error that I see in my google webmaster tools:

Sitemap errors and warnings
Line Status Details
7 Missing XML tag
This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.
[?] Parent tag:url
Tag:Mobile
Found:Feb 13, 2008

This is reported in regards to the sitemapezpages.xml, can someone please help me with this one. My website is https://www.vitalwares.ca and obviously the path to the sitemap is https://www.vitalwares.ca/sitemapezpages.xml

Also the other two sitemaps have no errors so its just this one...

All help is appreaciated... :blink:

kitcorsa:

i have gone to google and regestered in my site as well as rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk ive regestered rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/store and the maps are in here and google finds them ok now. dont know what this will do to my google listing though.

It shouldn't affect your Google listing. Since this mod only generates a sitemap of your store - having the sitemaps files in the root of your store (/store/*.xml) is perfectly fine. Google will be able to use your sitemap to find everything that exists in the /store/ directory or deeper.

If you were to manually add urls into these sitemaps for locations in the root of your site - or any folder at the same level as /store/ - it would not be in accordance with googles requirements and probably not be indexed. But... if you were to manually add locations like these you might as well just create a new sitemap, put it in the appropriate directory, and register another sitemap for your site.

and to ramble on further... with your current sitemap location, any files located here (and any folders inside of here) will be indexed just fine: rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/store/
In those same sitemaps located in the /store/ folder any urls to places like:
rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/index.htm
rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/somewhere/myfile.php
rubberduckbathrooms.co.uk/somewhereelse/anotherfolder/abc.php
are NOT valid.

vitalwares:

Sitemap errors and warnings
Line Status Details
7 Missing XML tag
This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.
[?] Parent tag:url
Tag:Mobile
Found:Feb 13, 2008
I don't see any errors in your xml. And also do not see tag: mobile.

a_berezin:

I don't see any errors in your xml. And also do not see tag: mobile.

Thanks Andrew,

I reinstalled and the problem seems to have corrected itself.

phark:

Greets!

I've installed the mod and all seems fine. BUT, when I click on the button to create the sitemap, the small window pops up but its just white.

I've changed all the the file permissions and and used absolute paths. I've seen many post on this in this thread, but did not find the solution to correct this problem.

I running on Linus, shared hosting, a martini and this is an addon domain.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Patrick

I'm having the same problem. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this. Thanks.

hrm:

I'm having the same problem. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this. Thanks.

OK. Here's what we discovered about this from the error logs. The PHP installation on our server has a maximum memory usage setting that defaults to 8MB. The sitemap generator was requiring more than that, so it would return an error and just try to download the googlesitemap.php file.

We are running Fedora, Zen Cart 1.3.7, PHP 4.3.9, Apache

So, here's how we fixed it:

1. Edit /etc/php.ini - Find memory_limit and set it to something bigger than 8MB (We set it to 80MB)

2)The reload apache with /etc/init.d/httpd/reload

3. In zen admin, run the sitemap gen. script and verify that your sitemap files actually contain data.

4. On the server: Edit /etc/php.ini and set the memory_limit back to 8MB

5. And last, reload apache again /etc/init.d/httpd/reload

This worked great for us. If anyone has any comments about what we did, I'd love to hear them.

Good luck!

Hi,

I have carefully read this forum and come to understand that the contribution submits to yahoo site explorer amung others.

Now when I go to yahoo site explorer I still see the submission date as the date I had submitted originally, so I actually have no idea if the submit has worked and everything is set up as it should be..

Can anyone tell me how to confirm that my site map is successfully being submitted to yahoo site explorer? :unsure:

Its easy with google, because google indexes within a few days so I know that things are working. But not sure with yahoo...

Hello,

I had zencart 1.3.6 installed and was running google sitemap admin 1.2.

I think this is the version number, that's what it says in the googlesitemap.php header. It also says "@copyright Copyright 2005, Bobby Easland". So i'm not sure.

So now I have just upgraded to Zencart 1.3.8 and downloaded google sitemap v 1.3.15 and not sure what I should do to implement the upgrade. I did a clean install of Zencart 1.3.8, so none of the site files are installed from the old version. However, my db still has whatever was put in by the original googlesitemap SQL file.

Please help.

Thanks

DD

djdavedawson:

I had zencart 1.3.6 installed and was running google sitemap admin 1.2.
...
So now I have just upgraded to Zencart 1.3.8 and downloaded google sitemap v 1.3.15 and not sure what I should do to implement the upgrade. I did a clean install of Zencart 1.3.8, so none of the site files are installed from the old version. However, my db still has whatever was put in by the original googlesitemap SQL file.

Sorry, but I don't understand - you "upgraded to Zencart 1.3.8" or "did a clean install of Zencart 1.3.8"?

I think you can simply reinstall google sitemap: overwrite all files and run install.sql

Sorry,

Yes I upgraded my db to 1.3.8, but all of the php files were the new ones. I looked in the db and the google files are still in there. I was able to find the old sql file.

I have attached what was installed originally:

Whicle looking through all the sql files in the new google package. I noticed that there were lines for additional pages in update_1_3_14.sql, that the new full install.sql did't have.

How should I proceed ?

Thanks Again

Delete update_1_3_14.sql and forget about it. It's my error :blush:

zbargain:

What should be in the robots.txt file & how do I specify the sitemap location in my robots.txt file?

User-Agent: *
Sitemap: http://<your_domain>/sitemapindex.xml

zbargain:

I don't have a robots.txt file (I don't think; not in my root dir anyways).
Create it.

v 1.3.17 12.04.2008 11:59

1. Make it compatible with another contribution "Multi-Language EZ-Pages" if it is installed.
   Thanks to Pierre Rossel - Prossel Software - https://www.prossel.com
2. Add new parameter inline=yes. Now in Google Webmaster Tools you can define your "Sitemap URL":
   http://your_domain/googlesitemap.php?inline=yes
   And every time Google will get googlesitemap.php he will receive a fresh sitemapindex.xml, so you don't need to
   use cron.
3. Add checking 'robots.txt' file in 'Save path' directory.