Post by YarniaPDX » Tue May 26, 2020 5:21 am

Can someone point me in the right direction for how to find/create the sitemap for my site (https://customyarn.com), in order to submit it to Google Webmaster Tools?

Thanks so much!
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Post by sw!tch » Tue May 26, 2020 5:36 am

Admin -> Extensions -> Feeds -> Google Sitemap.

Then you get to it by. https://www.customyarn.com/index.php?ro ... le_sitemap

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Post by cedcommerceteam » Tue May 26, 2020 12:57 pm

YarniaPDX wrote:
Tue May 26, 2020 5:21 am
Can someone point me in the right direction for how to find/create the sitemap for my site (https://customyarn.com), in order to submit it to Google Webmaster Tools?

Thanks so much!
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Hello there,

Hope you are doing well.

The first step is to go to your OpenCart admin and go to Extensions and then Extensions again.

Click the dropdown and select Feeds.

You will see the Google Sitemap extension. Hit the install button and then click Edit.

The first field is to just enable and disable the status of the sitemap. The second field is to enter the data feed URL.

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You can choose modules by visiting following link -

https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... ch=sitemap

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Post by letxobnav » Tue May 26, 2020 1:16 pm

The second field is to enter the data feed URL
There is nothing to enter, the sitemap url is fixed to the controller unless you adjust it via htaccess.

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Post by uksitebuilder » Tue May 26, 2020 3:21 pm

If you have enabled SEO URLs in your website and have therefore already enabled the .htaccess file, you can also access your sitemap, once enabled in the settings, by visiting yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml as there is already a rewrite rule in the default opencart htaccess for that.

If you want more control over your sitemap, there are extensions available in the OpenCart Marketplace to do that.

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Post by paulfeakins » Tue May 26, 2020 7:12 pm

If you have a lot of products and categories it can be possible that sitemap.xml loads too slowly for Google, in which case you'll need to cache it.

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Post by YarniaPDX » Sun May 31, 2020 6:56 am

Thanks! I enabled the sitemap and can view it here:

https://www.customyarn.com/index.php?ro ... le_sitemap

However, when I submit it to Google, it tells me the sitemap could not be read (see screenshot). What am I doing wrong?

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Post by letxobnav » Sun May 31, 2020 9:08 am

Suggest you reduce your sitemap first.
Default OC sitemap duplicates product urls, it lists the product urls excluding the category path (canonical) as well as the product url including the category path. The latter is useless and only makes your sitemap needlessly big.

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Post by YarniaPDX » Wed Jun 03, 2020 4:11 am

That makes sense, but how do I reduce the sitemap?

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Post by letxobnav » Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:52 pm

by removing this part:

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			$products = $this->model_catalog_product->getProducts(array('filter_category_id' => $result['category_id']));

			foreach ($products as $product) {
				$output .= '<url>';
				$output .= '  <loc>' . $this->url->link('product/product', 'path=' . $new_path . '&product_id=' . $product['product_id']) . '</loc>';
				$output .= '  <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>';
				$output .= '  <priority>1.0</priority>';
				$output .= '</url>';
			}
from catalog/controller/extension/feed/google_sitemap.php

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