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M2: XML SitemapUser Guide
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INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................4GENERAL SETTINGS .........................................................................................................................................................5- Enable Module ..............................................................................................................................................................7- Home Page Options Common Settings .....................................................................................................................8- Categories Options Common Settings .......................................................................................................................9- Products Options Common Settings ........................................................................................................................10- Enable Addition Links .................................................................................................................................................11- Sitemap Generation Settings ....................................................................................................................................12 - Sitemap File Limits Settings .......................................................................................................................................13- Sitemap Submitting to Search Engines ....................................................................................................................14
INDIVIDUAL SETTINGS ...................................................................................................................................................15- Categories ....................................................................................................................................................................15- Products .......................................................................................................................................................................17- Home and CMS Pages .................................................................................................................................................18- Additional Links Configuration ..................................................................................................................................19
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SITEMAP GENERATION ..................................................................................................................................................21- Add Sitemap File .........................................................................................................................................................21OVERVIEW .......................................................................................................................................................................24- XML Sitemap Sample .................................................................................................................................................24
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INTRODUCTIONWith the XML sitemap extension, you can easily generate a customizable XML sitemap. No need to add an enhanced sitemap file manually as the module creates it at a specified frequency. The purpose of creating an XML sitemap is to help search engines crawlers learn more about the website structure and decrease the possibility of overlooking some pages. As a result, the web spiders are instructed properly, and indexing of the website content is getting faster.
- Easily configure XML sitemap. Make general and individual settings for the store content.- Include all page links. Add category, product, CMS pages as well as additional links to a sitemap.- Exclude out of stock products. Hide out of stock products from the list.- Add products videos. Include videos to a sitemap file.- Inform about content updates. Set frequency of updates for each group of links.- Define priority of pages. Specify the priority of importance for each link type.- Auto-generate XML sitemap. Generate and update a sitemap automatically.- Speed up indexation. Help the store content to be indexed quickly.- Determine size. Set the size limits of a sitemap file and the max number of URLs in it.
Main Features:
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Stores
Configuration
Extait Modules
XML Sitemap
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GENERAL SETTINGSTo configure ‘XML Sitemap’ go to Admin Panel
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Set ‘Yes’ to enable the extension.
Enable Module
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These 3 fields are configured in each content type.
Choose from the dropdown how frequently the page
content is updated: always, hourly, daily, weekly,
monthly, yearly, never.
To add Home page to the sitemap select ‘Yes’.
Specify a value between 0.0 and 1.0 to set the the page priority importance.
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It’s possible to include categories images to bring more traffic to the web store.
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Categories Options Common SettingsEnable adding categories to the sitemap and set the ‘Frequency’ and ‘Priority’ fields as needed.
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Set ‘Yes’ to get products that are out of stock in the sitemap.
Select from the dropdown what products images to include: base, all, or none.
It’s possible to add products videos to the sitemap to bring more
traffic to the web store.
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Products Options Common SettingsEnable adding products to the sitemap and set the ‘Frequency’ and ‘Priority’ fields as needed.
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To add extra links to a sitemap set ‘Yes’.
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Enable Addition Links
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Specify the time to begin generation. Select the hour, minute and second to update a sitemap.
To generate a sitemap, set “Yes.”
Set the frequency to start: daily, weekly, monthly.
Specify the contact to be the sender of the error notification.
Enter the email address to receive a notification if an error occurs during update.
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Sitemap file must have no more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 50MB (52,428,800 bytes).
Specify the max number of URLs a sitemap file can contain.
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Indicate the file size in bytes.
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Set ‘Yes’ to add the sitemap location (URL) to the robots.txt file. This file provides instructions to search engines that crawl the site.
Sitemap Submitting to Search Engines
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INDIVIDUAL SETTINGSCategories
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Switch to ‘No’ to exclude a category from a sitemap. Switch to ‘No’ to change the common
settings applied to all categories.
Go to Catalog > Categories, select the desired category and find the Sitemap Settings tab.
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If the common settings are not used, the following fields are required to be set for the selected category.
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These fields are required to be set as needed.
ProductsGo to Catalog > Products, select a product from the grid and open it in edit mode, then find the Sitemap Settings tab.
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Switch to ‘No’ to set the fields below as needed.
Switch to ‘Yes’ to include pages*.
Home and CMS Pages
*The pages not included in the sitemap by default Magento behavior require this action.
Go to Content > Pages, select a page from the grid and open it in edit mode, then find the Sitemap Settings tab.
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Additional Links ConfigurationFor the settings, go to Marketing > Additional Links.
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Tap this button to add a new link to a sitemap.
Click ‘Edit’ to change the link configurations.
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Switch to ‘Yes’ to include a link into a sitemap.
Enter a page URL.
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Marketing
SEO & Search
Site Map
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SITEMAP GENERATIONAdd Sitemap FileTo create a sitemap file go to Admin Panel
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Click the button to add a new sitemap.
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Fill in the path to indicate where the sitemap file is to be located on the server.
Tap the Save & Generate button to complete and the sitemap appears in the grid.
Enter the filename. For example: sitemap.xml
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OVERVIEWXML Sitemap Sample
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