Defining Google Sitemaps
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Introduction |
Before you define your first Google Sitemap with Magento, you may want to read more about creating Google Sitemaps for Magento sites.
To create a Google Sitemap for a Magento site, go to Admin > Catalog > Google Sitemap and click on Add Sitemap.
In the Filename field, specify the name of the XML-format sitemap file you want Magento to create for the selected store view. It is usually convenient to include the store view ID in the filename, e.g.
store2en_sitemap.xml
The Path identifies the directory on the web server where you want the sitemap to be stored. The base path is main Magento directory for this installation (e.g. /magento/).
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If you want the sitemap file to be written to a subdirectory of the main Magento folder (e.g. /magento/sitemap/), enter the subdirectory name and a trailing forward slash:
sitemap/
The directory you specify must be writeable by the sitemap generation process.
Select the Store View for which you want to create a sitemap.
Click Save Sitemap to save the sitemap definition.
Creating the sitemap file |
Once you’ve defined a sitemap, you can manually generate it by replacing the “1” at the end of the below link with the actual sitemap id:
http://www.yourdomain.com/magento/admin/sitemap/generate/sitemap_id/1
Verify that the Last Time Generated column for your new sitemap now contains the current date and time.
Note: If you use separate server accounts for each store in a multi-store setup, you may have to copy the sitemap file into the directory structure of each account to give the search engines appropriate access to it.
