Havouza Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 The more I read about SEO the more I understand that a sitemap is important for the search engines. Ofc I have looked for a module to do it, the online tools have limitations. But PS addons are expensive. Then I fount a very mature and up to date Google XML sitemap generator module on GitHub. It is working like a charm so I attach it if someone is interested.01490471422675gsitemap.zip
wakabayashi Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 It's probably worth a feature request. Sitemap seems to be quite basic stuff from my opinion. What do you think?
Havouza Posted March 25, 2017 Author Posted March 25, 2017 I was thinking in the same direction. You can do and I will vote. Short of time for the moment
Havouza Posted March 25, 2017 Author Posted March 25, 2017 https://github.com/PrestaShop/gsitemap Steel or make native
wakabayashi Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 That's the PS Sitemap? This didn't work for me back then. I think there were problems with multistore, but don't remember exactly... Feature Request: https://thirtybees.com/suggestions/sitemap/
Havouza Posted March 25, 2017 Author Posted March 25, 2017 It work like a charm. Latest version February. Multishop will not come over my doorstep anyway
Traumflug Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 How about your.shop.com/sitemap/ ? It's in PS 1.6, PS 1.7 (bare bones link list) and also in TB 1.0 (structured, with advertising blocks). Just not XML. Link that on your front page or in your footer and Google shouldn't miss a page. If there's more to have than just making shure every page is searched, I'd be a good idea to describe the extra features required. As always, every feature comes with a price (writing the code, maintaining that, users have to learn configuring it), of course :-)
wakabayashi Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 You mean my feature request? Yeah maybe I should have described better. Will do it later...
Havouza Posted March 26, 2017 Author Posted March 26, 2017 As I see it when I read all the SEO experts you should produce 2 sitemaps. 1 for your users and one for the search engines. I have the native one activated in the top but I will also create one for Google, Bing, Yandex etc. It will not hurt, cost any money and is done automatically by cron.
MockoB Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 The sitemap which you submit in webmaster tools is way different then just link structure. It is a must for every web page and I didn't notice there wasn't native TB sitemap, I hope it will be solved soon.
Havouza Posted March 26, 2017 Author Posted March 26, 2017 The one I submitted also handles images which I understand is important
MockoB Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 Images, meta data, how frequently the sitemap is updated. You may choose what to submit... it really helps when you add new product to your store and resubmit your sitemap in webmaster tools, you don't have to wait for google to crawl that URL ... there are only positives.
Havouza Posted March 26, 2017 Author Posted March 26, 2017 @MockoB When the sitemap is submitted to Webtools, Google keep track of the updates itself. I have set the cronjob to update the sitemap just after my products are updated or new added.
MockoB Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 Personally when I update my store I generate manually the sitemap because the automatic update function never worked for me (on 1.5 shop) so the cron job is good idea. And every time I resubmit it in webmaster tools, it will be processed within a week maybe automatically but I prefer to do it myself, so I never noticed how often the automatic resubmission happens.
Havouza Posted March 26, 2017 Author Posted March 26, 2017 OK thanks I found something strange. I submitted the site to google yesterday and also the new sitemap. Today I looked and it seems that the site is crawled and there is a mistake that I cant find. See the attached screenshot. That category path is nowhere to be found.
MockoB Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 When you click the link does it point to actual page on your site or it is 404? And it is possible to be google issue, just mark the error as solved and check at next crawl if the same link shows again. I constantly receive same errors for deleted products, no matter I resubmit my sitemap after every change I make on the site ... Off topic: Some of my products are unique and after I sell one, I have to delete it. Unfortunately I loose rankings and receive many 404 errors. Recently I decided to just change the images but now they don't show as new products and it is hard for my clients to find them. Which makes me think there would be nice to have module which could bring old products as new.
Havouza Posted March 26, 2017 Author Posted March 26, 2017 Probably Goggle error. The link is some mix of categories. But the path is totally wrong
MockoB Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 You could check if the link is in the generated sitemap. It could be module incompatibility with TB.
Havouza Posted March 26, 2017 Author Posted March 26, 2017 Yea I will do. I just had no time. My xml tool is simple and takes time with big files. XML notepad
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