XML Google® Sitemap for Magento 1
Create an XML Sitemap for your site in an easy and efficient way. Help Google to correctly index your web store and increase positions in search results.
- Include product, category, cms pages and tags
- Add any extra links
- Apply steadier Ajax-based step-by-step sitemap generation
- Configure Hreflang to let Google know what content to consider
- Set max item quantity per file
Why do you need an XML sitemap for your e-commerce site?
XML sitemap is an easy way to let Google know about publicly available pages of your site. Actually, XML sitemap helps all search engines during the crawling process. When there are thousands of items in your Magento store, it's essential to help Google properly index all product pages.
Meet Google requirements
As soon as Google has specific rules for sitemap creation, you should carefully build your XML sitemap in order to meet all the requirements.
With the Magento Google sitemap extension you'll be able to properly create your XML sitemap:
- No more than 50,000 URLs in a sitemap;
- The size shouldn't exceed 50MB;
- No SID query in URLs.
Hide SID parameters from URLs to save resources of your server and significantly improve your SEO process.
Include necessary links
The XML sitemap Magento tool enables you to add any links to your sitemap as well as exclude unwanted ones.
Available types of links:
- Category pages;
- Product pages NEWadd out-of-stock products;
- CMS pages;
- Tags;
- Any extra links;
Make proper content appear for proper audience
Once you decide to grow your audience and spread your content internationally, you have to take into account particular SEO issues. The hreflang settings will help you to let Google know what language content is relevant to the target countries, and return it in the search results. There are flexible settings to lend you a hand:
- Use hreflang to find alternative links within one website or between various;
- Select the language you want to share your content in;
- Select the country you want to introduce your content in;
- Relate various pages based on UUIDs, URL Keys,or IDs;
- To monitor hreflang options, explore preview;
Images in the sitemap
Due to clear Google sitemap Magento module you can easily include images in your sitemap. It’s obvious that images can bring you more traffic when Google indexes them. So, why not use this opportunity to bring your store to the top in the search results?
You can add the following images to the XML sitemap:
- Product images;
- Category images.
Moreover you can use templates for image titles, e.g. "enjoy {product_name} from e-store".
Sitemap size
Set maximum number of items per file. Google accepts only up to 50000 URLs per sitemap or a file size of 50MB. The extension provides helpful settings to meet the above mentioned Google requirements.
Specify Memory Limit for Sitemep Cron Job
Unless you have large sized catalogs, you can limit the amount of memory for sitemap cron job.
Improved Sitemap Generation
The extension can easily cope with the large amount of pages. With the new Ajax-based functionality, it is possible to generate sitemaps including more pages. The generation process will be separated into batches to provide more steady performance.
Include the date of the last page modification
The extension allows you to specify the date when a product, category or CMS pages were last modified. Some of your store pages may be already indexed. Thus you help Google to focus only on the fresh ones.
The extension is compatible with Amasty Landing Pages
Have flexible settings for each page at your disposal - index your landing pages more efficiently with two associative modules.
XML Google® Sitemap module is compatible with FAQ and Product Questions
Index FAQ and Product Questions of your Magento web store.
Compatible with Blog Pro - Include blog posts into the sitemap
Add links to blog posts and categories into robots.txt file of the website for better indexation; it would also help to drive more traffic to the store with your blog.
How to meet Google requirements all out?
Try out our Magento Speed Optimization extension to make your website work faster and get closer to Google requirements.
Other Features
- 100% Open Source — Easy To Customize
- Follows Magento Code Architecture
- Separated HTML/CSS/JS
- Simple installation via Composer
I do appreciate the developer included the option for category and product pictures display and I hope this will help to generate more traffic and increase sales.
However, it’s too early to analyze the results, but the addon works as described and I believe I can rely on this vendor. As soon as I notice positive impact I’ll definitely change the review to five stars.
This extension generated my XML sitemap without any error. Of course, you should check it before submitting as it may contain the pages you don't need here. But in general, it's cool.
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- Fix an issue with multistore was resolved
- Fix the issue related to partition of the sitemap file was resolved
- Fix the issue with the incorrect schema was resolved
- Fix an issue with date format and incorrect schema was resolved
- Compatibility compatibility with Amasty FAQ and Product Questions extension was improved
- Fixed the issue with invalid syntax on installation
- Added the default values for size settings
- New allows to change the Memory Limit for the Cron Job in the corresponding setting in case of problem with the sitemap generation by cron
- Fixed the incorrect check for a blog section during sitemap generation process
- Fixed the SQl error during the database install with prefix
- Fixed an issue with hreflang tags functionality and XML sitemap generation by cron
- New Allows to exclude Out of Stock Product from the XML Sitemap
- New Added the <image:caption> tag
- Added the Hreflang Tag Preview Table in backend
- Fixed an issue with the homepage url
- New Added Hreflang Tag Support to notify Google which site to show to foreign users. Useful for a multi-lingual and multi-regional sites. Read more
- Fixed an issue with the sitemap generation by cron
- Performance improvement: sitemap generation separated into batches called by Ajax
- Compatibility with the Amasty Landing Pages extension (the missing Blog Pages tab is fixed)
- Compatibility with Shop by Brand
- Added setting to output all images for product in the sitemap
- Fixed date and time display
- Fixed cron execution time
- Removed brand pages with no products
- Dots (.) removes for URLs which have no suffix (like .html)
- Compatibility with Blog Pro extension improved
- Store filter added to improved navigation pages
- Sitemap is now being generated as a single file if no file size limits specified
- Fix for checking file size; caused an issue in some cases when generating XML file via cron job
- Minor modification for sitemap path when it's in the root folder of a website
- Old sitemap file is not removed until new is created during generation process, to avoid sitemap being unavailable ever for a shorter period of time
- Compatibility with Unique Product URL extension when using multiple stores
- Added support for Improved Navigation `Pages`
- Minor fixes
- Option to exclude any URL
- Compatibility with Blog Pro module
- Admin routing patch (SUPEE-6788) compatibility
- Added cron job frequency setting
- Admin routing patch (SUPEE-6788) compatibility
- Each map item is at a new line, it's is better for debug
- No SID part in the URLs
- New date format for LAST MODIFIED field
- No disabled pages in the sitemap
- Cron job minir optimization
- Now, if we include landing pages, we use URL suffix from the catalog settings
- Install script modifications
- Compatibility with Unique Product URL module
