Google asks to upload my sitemap file. cs-cart makes it’s sitemap, but what format is it in and where is it located so I can upload it?
[quote name=‘Tail’s’]Google asks to upload my sitemap file. cs-cart makes it’s sitemap, but what format is it in and where is it located so I can upload it?[/QUOTE]The Google sitemap file is not same as the CS-Cart site map. The Google sitemap is an XML file with a link to each item with 3 parameters: last mod date, change frequency and priority. The way I have it set up on my auction site is to generate the site dynamically. Works well as Google uploads my XML file daily. Here is an XML output of my Google sitemap:
[url]http://www.modelxchange.com/?mxc=sitemap[/url]
How do you do such a magical thing?
I don’t see anyone writing that up every day by hand.
the above link did this xml of my site (partial, was very big):
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xmlns=“Google Search Central”
xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
xsi:schemaLocation=“Google Search Central
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http://www.tails.se/
0.6
2006-10-11T07:11:23+00:00
daily
http://www.tails.se/index.php
0.6
2006-10-11T07:11:23+00:00
daily
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[quote name=‘Tail’s’]the above link did this xml of my site (partial, was very big):[/QUOTE]That’s the problem with a tool like that. It will get everything and you have to manually edit the file. If there is interest, I can code up a generator to scan the database to get categories/sub-categories and products to produce the XML Sitemap. This way, you give Google the url to the php script to produce the sitemap on the fly.
is there an interest? youre kidding? I can’t imagine there not being one, shouldn’t such a thing be easily included in cs-cart?
I would be very thankful if you can code a generator 
Doesnt one generator work for everyone? Like the one you already have? As you can see, not at all familiar with this
[quote name=‘Tail’s’]Doesnt one generator work for everyone? Like the one you already have? As you can see, not at all familiar with this :)[/QUOTE]Nope. Different database schema. Lets see if anyone else is interested. In the mean time, I’ll continue my XSS and SQL injection testing (lots of holes to plug.)
Ãm interest,
Larry,
I would also be interested in the sitemap generator and would appreciate anything you are willing to contribute.
Ok, I’ll put it together tonight. The feed will contain the cart homepage, categories and products. Let me know if other locations should be part of the feed. Here is a link to the protocol if interested:
[url]https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html[/url]
im interested, but let me ask you this, when i was on google it said something about the site map and i hit the button to make one. what was that, did that do anything,
[quote name=‘zoom4267’]im interested, but let me ask you this, when i was on google it said something about the site map and i hit the button to make one. what was that, did that do anything,[/QUOTE]Google doesn’t make a sitemap for your. They do have a place where you enter your site’s url to give a report showing how your site is indexed on google.
ahhh, isee, thanks
[quote name=‘sculptingstudio’]Google Sitemap Generator mod is done:
[url]http://vb.cs-cart.com/showthread.php?t=1179[/url][/QUOTE]
just went throught it, ill give it a go
thanks sooooo much
Thank you Larry. I will give it a shot over the next couple of days.
Much appreciated.
very nice larry, big thanks!
Should site info pages be part of a site map?
[quote name=‘Tail’s’]very nice larry, big thanks!
Should site info pages be part of a site map?[/QUOTE]It could, but I think you want google indexing products you have for sale. What do others think? Should we add more sections to the XML sitemap feed?
I guess that more is never a problem, especially if it can be easily switched off in the code for those who do not want it. 
The product pages are obviously the most important though.