Google sitemap

Can you, please, clarify.
Suggested at:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28492&highlight=sitemaps

programm must to be installed at the folder, where Zen Cart is installed?

Does if make sitemap of Zen cart structure only?

Or it is universal?

In my case I have Home page (and other pages) in a higher level and Zen Cart folder is below.

So, I am not shure if Google sitemap generator offered in this forum will work from top level.

I would appreciate your respond.

It seems fairly straight forward, just copy all of the files and folders, keeping the structure of the folders, to the same location that zencart is installed( the root directory of zencart) . copy the contents of the sql file to the query box in admin

presto done!

Nothing more to it than that...unless I am missing something.

mind you, you'll still have to configure and verify the google account.

Regards

Maybe I am missing something, when I upload the contents of Google Sitemap Generator to the root directory of my webserver, there is already an "admin" and "includes" folder. Please help.

Have you read the more active and update support thread below?
Google SitemapAdmin

Can someone help pls I upload Google sitemap module. When I go to admin-> tools -> Google xml sitemap and click on

"STEP 1: Click [HERE] to create / update your site map. "

I get a pop up with 404 error page.

I hv uploaded the xml files and chmd to 777 and or 755 in module and nothing copies to it. I also deleted them and see if module would create it files, and nothing

Can someone point to whant I'm doing wrong

tks

Can any one help me, please! Google site map isn't showing up under tools. It shows up under configuration.

On another note the directions say "Copy install_googlesitemap.php to the admin directory, start it, select Install and press GO button".

How do you start it?

I have double checked my files and reloaded them to verify I didn't miss anything. I have used googlesitemap.sql. Im not using admin levels or profiles. Running version 1.3.7

Gary, I gave up with Zen menus.
If you would like to generate sitemap by yourself, there is a good and easy to use tool:
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

They make excellent job.
If your site is less than 500 pages it is free.

Good luck.

garyclemens:

Can any one help me, please! Google site map isn't showing up under tools. It shows up under configuration.

On another note the directions say "Copy install_googlesitemap.php to the admin directory, start it, select Install and press GO button".

How do you start it?

I have double checked my files and reloaded them to verify I didn't miss anything. I have used googlesitemap.sql. Im not using admin levels or profiles. Running version 1.3.7

in your explore address, input: http://YOURSITE.com/admin/install_googlesitemap.php
then ENTER
it will loads this page:

Google Sitemap Installer Install
Update up to v 1.3.2
Update up to v 1.3.3
Update up to v 1.3.4
Unistall

click Process

all done!

Folks,

I generated a sitemap from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. I uploaded it to my site https://www.mysite.com/store. However, Google returns a 404 error. Where,exectly, am I supposed to put the sitemap?

Many thanks.

Diggy

I generated a sitemap from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. I uploaded it to my site https://www.mysite.com/store. However, Google returns a 404 error. Where,exectly, am I supposed to put the sitemap?

You did uploaded file **sitemap.xml ** to your folder https://www.mysite.com/store.

Now go to Google sitemap page Login and you will find instructions how to tell Goole where your **sitemap.xml **is located.

If you do not have an account, than you need to sign up at first.

Good luck!

Yes, silly me. I uploaded the sitemap to https://www.mysite.com/store, but originally tried to send the google crawler to https://www.mysite.com. Once I specified https://www.mysite.com/store to Google, all was well.

Thanks for your help. This is a great community, always willing to help, and I'm grateful.

Hi,

If ur really seriously about google sitemap please read guideline google site map

I think that i have found the solution, what i have done to install google sitemap and get it work is as under:

Step 1: I opened my the install.sql file and noticed that the tables it is calling are configuration and configuration_group. which are not the same as in my database for zencart. They are different the one i had by looking in phpmyadmin for mySQL database were zen_configuration and zen_configuration_group. So i replaced the install.sql query table names with the proper one.

Step 2: I changed the CHMOD permissions to 777 of the files that are being called by the script in my case they are sitemapproducts.xml, sitemapcategories.xml, sitemapezpages.xml, sitemapindex.xml

and run the tool from admin panel. All should go fine. Note : Make sure your apache server allow fopen function.:clap:

Got the google sitemap working on my site (in progress) and got a chron job to update every day. I checked the links it generated - I followed a couple of URLs in the products sitemap and found that it adds an 'amp;' into the URL and goes to a page not found.

Is this a fault that has been overlooked, or is my set-up somehow skewed?

I have now removed the chron and am using find and replace to rid the offending URLs of the 'amp;'.

Example:

Generated URL in sitemapproducts.xml

Try swiping and following the above URL then try this one with the 'amp;' removed:

http://celticcairn.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=7

copied form a list of common validation problems:

Ampersands (&'s) in URLs
Another common error occurs when including a URL which contains an ampersand ("&"):

<!-- This is invalid! --> <a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">...</a>

This example generates an error for "unknown entity section" because the "&" is assumed to begin an entity reference. Browsers often recover safely from this kind of error, but real problems do occur in some cases. In this example, many browsers correctly convert &copy=3 to ©=3, which may cause the link to fail. Since ⟨ is the HTML entity for the left-pointing angle bracket, some browsers also convert &lang=en to 〈=en. And one old browser even finds the entity §, converting &section=2 to §ion=2.

To avoid problems with both validators and browsers, always use & in place of & when writing URLs in HTML:

<a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">...</a>

Note that replacing & with & is only done when writing the URL in HTML, where "&" is a special character (along with "<" and ">"). When writing the same URL in a plain text email message or in the location bar of your browser, you would use "&" and not "&". With HTML, the browser translates "&" to "&" so the Web server would only see "&" and not "&" in the query string of the request.

Color me stupid! :frusty:

What do I need to do to fix this error???

Sitemap errors and warnings

LineStatusDetails-Unsupported file format
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit. [IMG]https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/js/2757448062-question_mark.gif[/IMG]

What happens if I want my products listed like:

http://toysandsave.com/ghost-in-the-shell-hard-disk-figure-exclusive-c8c9-p-1.html

instead of:

http://toysandsave.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=12

Sorry, the correct first link is:

http://toysandsave.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1

You can also add a path to your robots.txt file.

Google, MSN and Yahoo all recognize this and now use the same sitemap.xml file.

Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/store/sitemap.xml

http://www.searchengineguide.com/stoney-degeyter/google-yahoo-ms.php

The site map generator doesn't work for my 1.3.8 so I wrote my own. Email me with questions about it; mine works