Introduction

Sitemaps are generally used for two purposes. First, for navigation through the website so users could quickly find their way. The second and primary purpose is to help Search Engines better index your Online Store.

In this tutorial, we are going to guide you on how to generate an XML Sitemap of your X-Cart store and how to submit it to Search Engines.

Getting Started

In X-Cart, the SES aspects are handled by the XML sitemap Addon. It allows you to automatically generate the Sitemap and submit it to the most popular Search Engines. In other words, it makes the whole process extremely simple and straightforward.

To begin with, you have to ensure the Addon is installed and enabled on your store. If needed, please find detailed instructions in our tutorial on How to install Addons in X-Cart.

Once this is done, please log in to your X-Cart Admin Area and navigate through the left-hand side menu bar to Store setup > SEO settings.

When there, please switch to the “XML sitemap” tab.

In this section, you can adjust the parameters based on which the Sitemap to be generated. You can also automatically submit it to Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

Generating XML Sitemap

First off, let’s review the settings based on which the Sitemap is going to be generated. They are split into two groups:

• Frequency of content renewal – From each of the dropdown menus, you have to select the frequency, which represents how often the corresponding content type is usually changed in your store.
• Priority – This group of settings allows you to set up a priority with a range from 0.0 to 1.0 for each category of pages. The priory value determines which pages you consider as most important in your store. Note that this is within the scope of your website. It does not reflect how your content is compared to other websites.

Publisher description

A X-Cart module for Sitemap generation in XML format. Features: * X-Cart SEO Modules Integration (DSEFU and etc) support. * DSEFU URL generation based on Cyrillic titles support. * HTML-catalog support. * Sitemap index files and unlimited (more than 50,000) URLs support. Module creates multiple Sitemap files for big sites according to protocol requirements. * GZIP support for big xml files. * Personal parameters for each page classes.. * Permission key support. It is simple way for disable plotter access to server overload via multiple big xml-sitemap files generation. * Permission key support. It is simple way for disable plotter access to server overload via multiple big xml-sitemap files generation. The module can be used as a cron task: * Use the command php -f sitemap_make.php to generate the sitemap and register the static version in search engines. By the way, cron can also be used for regular static map generation. Module Installation: * Copy of all files from the distribution into the root folder of X-Cart. * Open your browser and go to the sitemap_install.php file, this file will update your database. * Delete sitemap_install.php after installation for security reason.

Publisher Description

Generates XML Sitemap, search engine optimization for Google, MSN, Yahoo – all at once!
4 Step very easy installation, start using in 5 minutes!
Completely dynamic – no additional support required
Supports UNLIMITED number of pages (when million is not enough)
Supports XML Sitemap Index
Support Google, MSN, Yahoo at ONCE
Advanced Admin Section available for advanced users
1 year FREE module upgrade included
Supports MagneticOne Advanced X-Cart SEO module (Must have module for excellent results)

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