I’m trying to upload the sitemap.xml file into my google base, but it’s coming back saying it couldn’t be imported due to errors in the sitemap script. Incompatible structure.
Am I the only one running into problems importing sitemap data into google…?
[quote name=‘snorocket’]you don’t need to import anything, you just log into your google webmaster tools and create a new sitemap and paste the link to your sitemap, example:
[quote name=‘tbirnseth’]My take is that it should only resolve the the product.html. Categories are for other SEO type actions, a sitemap is intended to show unique items/pages on a site not be synthesized with categories, tags, languages, etc.[/QUOTE]
The problem with not having the categories in a sitemap, is that if you use categories in seo urls (which is actually favorable for seo) google will index BOTH and you end up with duplicate content.
I already have urls with categories indexed from 1.3.5 and am afraid of getting dinged by google. There are outside links to these pages that I cannot change, and there are too many urls to forward. I have worked too hard to get our site where we are and dont want to lose ground.
The sitemap created for 1.3.5 had categories withe the correct path. I don’t quite understand the architect of 2.0, so I don’t understand why categories can’t be included. I am hoping someone will have a solution, paid or not, to this issue soon.
No one is saying it can’t be done. Just that no one is stepping up to do it. One of the great things about free software is that someone has to motivated to make a change for it to happen. The prior version didn’t even have any SEO nor did it write to a sitemap.xml file nor did it do it on a frequency. Both Sno and I are trying to make a living and don’t really have time to keep enhancing things for other people’s benefit. The code is there if you want to add category support. But for each product you’ll have to find what categories it belongs to and create a separate entry for each or devise a strategy whereby it only uses the primary category. Note that category names are already there, but not associated with any particular product (what the value of that is I don’t know, but that’s what was done).
[quote name=‘tbirnseth’]No one is saying it can’t be done. Just that no one is stepping up to do it. One of the great things about free software is that someone has to motivated to make a change for it to happen. [/QUOTE]
I totally understand. If someone is willing to achieve this, I am willing to pay…