Google SitemapAdmin

MeltDown:

Which speaks to your second point about manually creating the sitemap first. However, I have no idea how to go about doing that.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/

MeltDown:

Response I received from my hosting service below:
The machine you are on is not Unix,...
MeltDown:

It looks like it might be a good time to migrate, which is something I've been considering recently, anyway, since I've found that my host company is more expensive then others.
When they stated "not Unix" that should have told you to run from them, not walk.

And you cannot install plug-ins without their permission. Not acceptable.

MeltDown:

I'd like to get this mod in place, if possible.
You likely don't have any controls such as cpanel. Don't waste your time fussing with this. Move to another hosting provider.

glock:

Q: Will the "priority" hint in the XML Sitemap change the ranking of my pages in search results?

A: No. The "priority" hint in your Sitemap only indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your own site.

The priority of this page relative to other pages on the same site. The value is a number between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 is the lowest priority and 1.0 is the highest priority. The priority can affect the order that search engines select URLs to explore on your site. Since the priority is relative, it is only used to select between URLs within your own site; the priority of your pages will not be compared to the priority of pages on other sites.

You can change the priority hint under configuration / Google xml sitemap

I don't see Google xml sitemap under configuration. It is only under Tools, and there is no place to change the priority hint. Can you help further explain this?

Klemens
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If it was installed properly you will see it under configuration.

Configuration >>>> Google XML Sitemap

Depending on what theme you are using, you might need to scroll down to view it.

glock:

If it was installed properly you will see it under configuration.

Configuration >>>> Google XML Sitemap

Depending on what theme you are using, you might need to scroll down to view it.

Thanks. I install an update SQL patch and it shows up in the Configuration. I have question about Cron job: what do I put in front of
wget http://www.magicdigitalframes.com/googlesitemap.php?ping=yes to have it generate and ping google automatically? How frequent? and at what time?

Thanks.

hi guys,

i have installed this contribution, it works without any problems in the meaning that i receive no error messages, also all xml files are being created smootly.

however when i checked created xml files i found that data are not correct.
here is an example of product data listing in sitemapproducts.xml file:

that listing leads to an empty page at my website because of incorrect separator ";" - there should by "&".

my categories in sitemapcategories.xml file are generated by the same wrong way ...

any ideas why the xml files are being created incorrectly?

thank you very much for any suggestions...

Hi guys.

Wonderful tool this Google Sitemap Admin. However, I got it to work on a smaller site with some 500 products, but not on a site with some 20.000 products.

1. I added the sql patch and made the xml files 777, but it still does nothing.

2. I tried making the limit of number of links and size bigger, but to no avail.

I can tell the php is doing something, i.e. making the query and working, since it takes quite a while before the "Done" pops up in the window. However the "Done-page" is blank and the xml files are still 0 size.

Any suggestions?

And to answer a question:

sketman:

http://www.netgifts.biz/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=188

that listing leads to an empty page at my website because of incorrect separator ";" - there should by "&".

any ideas why the xml files are being created incorrectly?

Go here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html#sitemapXMLFormat

and scroll down to "Entity escaping". Your site map is not generated wrong. It is generated correct for the GoogleBot.

Also there is a space here:
".... product<space>s_id=188" ,

which I'm guessing shouldnt be there.

a_berezin:

Change in sql patch all ' to ''. Or use attachements.

Hi there, I downloaded the attachment but when I try to unzip it, it asks for a password. Can you please let me know what the password is?

Thanks!

No password and no attachment need. Download last version.

piwanek:

I got it to work on a smaller site with some 500 products, but not on a site with some 20.000 products.
Try to add

set_time_limit(0); 

after

require_once('includes/application_top.php');

in googlesitemap.php.

I'll give it a try and let you know. Thank you. :)

Andrew - will the Google Sitemap on your site work with Zencart 1.27 ?

All my sites work on 1.3.5

I guess that means no. I just don't think I can handle updating Zencart right now. Does anyone have a copy that will be compatible with 1.27 ?

I installed it and got the sql to go in fine.. Now when I go into admin/configurations and click on sitemap xml i get the following errror:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/content/l/h/h/lhhgbh/html/admin/configuration.php on line 245

I researched and found that it could be because something isnt bracketted correctly closing something.. here is line 245.. I dont know whats missing?

any ideas?

Well I installed it on my other site and it worked just fine.. Actually it works on my other site when I generate the site map.. I just cant go into the configuration file in the first drop down menu, but it seems to work. now to see if google accepts them...

MeltDown:

From Google I receive this error:

Empty Sitemap Your Sitemap does not contain any URLs. Please validate and resubmit your Sitemap.

As stated above, on this end, when I go to create my sitemap in Admin/Tools/Google XML Sitemap: I receive this error:

ERROR: Google Product Sitemap Generation FAILED!
ERROR: Google Category Sitemap Generation FAILED!
ERROR: Google Sitemap Index Generation FAILED!

Hello,

I am also getting this same error. I know why it is happening, but unfortunately as I am on a windows server I am only able to set permissions on folders, and not just on individual files. So it is trying to write to \googlesitemap.php in the main directory. To set write permissions correctly for this file would mean setting write permissions for the entire cart to 777.

The answer to this would be to move the googlesitemap.php file to its own directory, and set the permissions for that accordingly.

I tried fiddling around with the php code to point it to a the new directory, but couldn't get it to work. My php skills are very poor though.

Can anyone suggest what code I need to get it to point towards GoogleSitemapAdmin/googlesitemap.php ?

Thanks in advance...

anita:

I guess that means no. I just don't think I can handle updating Zencart right now. Does anyone have a copy that will be compatible with 1.27 ?

Yes, it works fine on 1.2.7 (it also works fine on 1.2.3).

Got this error message.. Anyone have any ideas?

Warning: fopen(/home2/sucha/public_html/sitemapproducts.xml) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home2/sucha/public_html/googlesitemap.php on line 433
ERROR: Google Product Sitemap Generation FAILED!

Warning: fopen(/home2/sucha/public_html/sitemapcategories.xml) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home2/sucha/public_html/googlesitemap.php on line 433
ERROR: Google Category Sitemap Generation FAILED!

Warning: fopen(/home2/sucha/public_html/sitemapindex.xml) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home2/sucha/public_html/googlesitemap.php on line 433
ERROR: Google Sitemap Index Generation FAILED!

What permissions do you have set on those files? They need to be 755 or 777 depending on your server setup.

On the generated pages, in the top of page, an alert show me that the page don't have a stylesheet; http://www.100asa.it/sitemapindex.xml generate a few row.
Google say me that the page have error 404