GOOGLE XML SITEMAP FOR MAGENTO 2.

GOOGLE XML SITEMAP FOR MAGENTO 2

About GOOGLE XML SITEMAP FOR MAGENTO 2.

Dynamically generate XML sitemaps, help search engines faster crawl and index your store.

Google has specific rules for sitemap generation. It is useful to have your XML sitemaps built automatically with a help of Google XML Sitemap for Magento 2 extension in order to meet all search engines requirements. Faster indexing of new pages shortens the time your new products to appear in Google.

This extension helps you gain a granularly control over your Magento 2 sitemap by allowing you to control visibility in sitemap for each Product , Category and CMS page. Also it allows you to add into the sitemap custom URLs that are not included with default magento sitemap with full control over attributes like store-view, priority, change frequency and update date.

By using this extension you can dynamically exclude from sitemap Products, Categories and Pages that you do not want to be indexed by search engines but are still required in your store.

Include any links in your sitemaps:

Google XML Sitemap for Magento 2 allows to include/exclude links from various locations:

Category pages;
Product pages;
CMS pages;
Custom URLs.

Better sitemap reliability using advanced settings

You can configure detailed settings like storeview, priority, update date and change frequency. You can set the values specifically for each group of links: Products, Categories, CMS pages, and individually for each Custom URL. The more appropriate settings you have, the more reliability and trust to your site from Google.

Features of the Extension.

Faster indexation of your store content - better SEO score
Configure frequency updates - for each type of page CMS, Product, Category, Custom URL
Individual Product control - control what Products you want to be included/excluded from sitemap
Individual Category control - control what Categories you want to be included/excluded from sitemap
Individual CMS Pages control - control what CMS Pages you want to be included/excluded from sitemap
Add unlimited custom URLs - full control over each URL’s priority, store-view, change frequency and update date.
Dynamic generated sitemap - once configured, always up to date.
Increase conversions and reduce bounce rate - allow search engines to index the appropriate elements of your store in order to reduce bounce rate and improve conversions.
Reduce return rate - help buyers find the best product for them using specific relevant information already indexed in search engines using your advanced sitemap
Easy to use - no coding needed
Best practice coding - extending the functionality of the default Magento 2 XML sitemap

HOW TO INSTALL VIA COMPOSER CLI COMMANDS

Step 1:
Before installing please check the extension compatibility. This extension is currently compatible with the following Magento versions 2.3.X. - 2.4.2. It is recommended to install the extension first on a testing server before you install it on a live (production) server.
Step 2:
Make sure you have your Magento Marketplace Authentication Keys configured on the Magento instance. If your keys are not added, check the Magento Documentation for more information about how to add those.
Step 3:
Access the root of your magento 2 project from command line and run the following commands:
composer require weltpixel/module-sitemap
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f

HOW TO INSTALL MANUALLY VIA SSH.

Installing via SSH is possible by purchasing directly from our website or migrating your product from the Magento Marketplace to a WeltPixel Account. If you've already purchased the product on the Magento Marketplace and would like to migrate it in order to install via SSH, please check out this article from our Support Center: Manual (SSH) Installation if product is purchased from Magento Marketplace

How to Configure.

Step 1: Create your sitemap

Go to Marketing -> SEO & Search -> Site Map and add your sitemap by clicking on "Add Sitemap" button

Select the name for your sitemap, example: sitemap.xml
Select the path for your sitemap, example: "/sitemap/" or "/" for base path (path must be writeable)

Step 2: Configure your sitemap

Go to Stores -> Configuration -> Catalog -> XML Sitemap and configure default settings for your sitemap.

a. Select Frequency and Priority for each type of page in your store: Category Pages, Product Pages, CMS Pages.

Frequency

How frequently the page is likely to change. This value provides general information to search engines and may not correlate exactly to how often they crawl the page. Valid values are:

always / hourly / daily / weekly / monthly / yearly / never

The value "always" should be used to describe documents that change each time they are accessed. The value "never" should be used to describe archived URLs.

Please note that the value of this tag is considered a hint and not a command. Even though search engine crawlers may consider this information when making decisions, they may crawl pages marked "hourly" less frequently than that, and they may crawl pages marked "yearly" more frequently than that. Crawlers may periodically crawl pages marked "never" so that they can handle unexpected changes to those pages.

Priority

The priority of the URL relative to other URLs on your site. Valid values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This value does not affect how your pages are compared to pages on other sites—it only lets the search engines know which pages you deem most important for the crawlers. The default priority of a page is 0.5.

Please note that the priority you assign to a page is not likely to influence the position of your URLs in a search engine's result pages.

Search engines may use this information when selecting between URLs on the same site, so you can use this tag to increase the likelihood that your most important pages are present in a search index.

Also, please note that assigning a high priority to all of the URLs on your site is not likely to help you. Since the priority is relative, it is only used to select between URLs on your site.

b. Configuring sitemap generation settings
- Enable - [ Yes / No ] - this option enable sitemap generation. Make sure cronjobs are setup on your server in order for this automated task to be triggered.
- Start time - set the time when sitemap generation should start
- Frequency - set how often you want your sitemap to be updated
- Error email recepient - configure an email where you should receive potential error reports
- Error email sender - configure store default sender of the email
- Error email template - configure store default template for the email
- Maximum No of URLs per file - set the maximum number of URLs in sitemap.
- Maximum file size - set sitemap file size in bytes
- Enable submission to Robots.txt - [ Yes / No ] - if enabled sitemap will be included in robots.txt file of your store, facilitating search engines to faster discover it.

Step 3: Customize your sitemap and make it your own using GOOGLE XML SITEMAP for Magento 2

a. Exclude from sitemap particular CMS Pages you do not want indexed in search engines
- Go to Content -> Pages -> Edit Page -> WeltPixel Options -> Exclude from Sitemap -> Yes
  This option is useful when you want to exclude certain CMS Pages from sitemap. Ex: ‘404 Not Found Page’ makes no sense to be indexed by google, you do not want your customers there.

b. Exclude from sitemap particular Product Pages you do not want indexed in search engines
- Go to Products -> Catalog -> Edit Product -> WeltPixel Options -> Exclude from Sitemap -> Yes
  This option is useful when you want to exclude certain Product Pages from sitemap. Ex: maybe you have a lookbook where your products can be purchased using a quick view functionality and you don’t want to sell the products individually on separate product pages, in this case you can exclude that particular product pages from sitemap indexation.

c. Exclude from sitemap particular Category Pages you do not want indexed in search engines
- Go to Products -> Categories -> Select Category -> WeltPixel Options -> Exclude from Sitemap -> Yes
  This option is useful when you want to exclude certain Category Pages from sitemap. Ex: You may want to include in sitemap only level 2 categories and exclude level 1 categories in order for clients to land on a more segmented category.

d. Add custom URL to sitemap

By default magneto doesn’t add to sitemap custom url that may be still relevant to your business, for example a html page presenting your product. Ex: Weltpixel Cleo Theme is presenation of one of our products but is not included in default Magento sitemap.

By using Google XML custom sitemap URL functionality we’ll be able to add also this link to our dynamically generated sitemap.

Go to WeltPixel -> Sitemap -> Add New Url
- URL - Insert link without base url, ex: /cleo and the link in your sitemap will be www.yourbaseurl.com/cleo
- Updated at - set the time and date when this page was last updated
- Store View - Select in what store view to insert this custom URL in sitemap
- Change Frequency - How frequently the page is likely to change. This value provides general information to search engines
- Priority - The priority of the URL relative to other URLs on your site. Valid values range from 0.0 to 1.0
- Woohoo, the sitemap is configured!

Change Log.

What’s new in v.1.10.7 - March 26, 2021

ixed a popup display issue that occurred when deleting a record from the Magento Admin.
Added compatibility for latest versions of MySql and MariaDB.
Excluded Magento 2.0.x - 2.2.x from new features and fixes starting with this release.
Adjusted WeltPixel Developer section comments.

What’s new in v.1.10.5 - February 12, 2021

Confirmed compatibility with the newly released Magento 2.4.2 version.
Added additional backend versioning verifications.
Backend module code optimizations.

What’s new in v.1.10.1 - October 22, 2020

Confirmed compatibility with the newly released Magento 2.4.1 version.

What’s new in v.1.10.0 - August 10, 2020

Confirmed compatibility with the newly released Magento 2.4.0 version.

What’s new in v.1.9.8 - July 6, 2020

Whitelisted domain for Content Security Policies introduced in Magento 2.3.5.

What’s new in v.1.9.7 - May 7, 2020

Confirmed compatibility with Magento 2.3.5.
Implemented small Backend performance optimizations.
Added nxcli.net (Nexcess temporary URL) as a valid domain in the licensing process.
Added an option in the Developer section to allow for switching Magento's CSP between "report-only" and "restrict".

What’s new in v.1.9.6 - April 9, 2020

Fixed a Backend issue on Magento Commerce whereby the Category Schedule functionality was not working properly.

What’s new in v.1.9.5 - March 10, 2020

Added backend Google reCaptcha compatibility for Magento 2.3.x

What’s new in v.1.9.4 - February 5, 2020

Code enhancements for increased security. Changed User Group info collection method.
Confirmed compatibility for Magento 2.3.4.

What’s new in v.1.9.1 - October 16, 2019

Confirmed compatibility with the latst Magento 2.3.3 version.
Included the WeSupply Toolbox integration extension - Proactive Notifications Email & SMS, Returns & RMA, Store Locator, Delivery Date Estimate, Logistics Analytics, NPS & CSAT score. Get Free on-boarding and launch within 24 hours.

What’s new in v.1.9.0 - July 18, 2019

Confirmed compatibility with Magento 2.3.2.
Added HTTPS endpoint for licensing process.

What’s new in v.1.8.5 - June 7, 2019

Small performance improvements.

What’s new in v.1.8.4 - April 25, 2019

Added PHP version in the WeltPixel Developer Section.

What’s new in v.1.8.3 - April 3rd, 2019

Confirmed compatibility for Magento 2.3.1.

What’s new in v.1.8.2 - January 24, 2019

Helpcenter adjustment, removed zendesk iframe and added a simple link to our Support Center in order to avoid any potential conflicts with other admin js added by 3rd party extensions.
Fix for multiple rewritten ImageFactory classes, rewrite check validity, rewrite checks optimizations.

What’s new in v.1.8.0 - December 8, 2018

Fixed missing change_frequency bug from latest Magento 2.2.x versions.
Compatibility adjustments for Magento 2.1.16/2.2.7/2.3.0.
PHP 7.2 compatibility added.
As Magento 2.3 comes with major core changes, we have provided a different set of files in order to achieve the best performance on each version.

What’s new in v.1.7.5 - October 24, 2018

Added detailed error messages for invalid licenses for an easier identification of the cause.
License improvements, added *.magento.cloud as a valid test domain for Enterprise Cloud environments. Now both ‘magentosite.cloud’ and ‘magneto.cloud’ can be used for testing purpose with the production domain license.

What’s new in v.1.7.4 - September 25, 2018

Admin menu styling to fit screen size 1366px.
Fix for production mode with merged JS - missing color pallet display now fixed

What’s new in v.1.7.3 - August 23, 2018

License improvements, adding *.magento.cloud as a valid test domain.

What’s new in v.1.7.2 - August 2, 2018

Fixed admin random logout issue.
Licensing improvements, allowing 3 letter domain as valid domain.

What’s new in v.1.7.1 - July 12, 2018

Compatibility with Magento 2.2.5 both Open Source & Commerce Cloud B2B.
Added domain.test & [any_subdomain].domain.test to the list of valid urls for staging/development environments. Added domain validation with port number included for licensing purpose.
Added licensing compatibility with Magento B2B.

What’s new in v.1.7.0 - July 5, 2018

Added option to enable/disable WeltPixel admin notifications.
Show store and server related information under debugging tab: Magento Mode, Magento Edition, Server User, Magento Installation Path, Current server time, Latest cron jobs.
Added licensing, license key needs to be generated under weltpixel.com account for purchased product, based on domain name and added under your magento installation.

What’s new in v.1.6.4 - May 16, 2018

Compatibility with Magento 2.2.4, logger broken reference fix, changed to rewrite from plugin.

What’s new in version 1.6.0 - March 1st, 2018

Changing sitemap attribute to ‘not required’ for categories and products in order to avoid catalog integration with external systems like ERPs.

What’s new in v.1.5.8 - January 12, 2018

Added version control for installed WeltPixel modules, including latest version check.

What’s new in v.1.5.7 - December 14, 2017

Added Support Center functionality in Magento Admin.
Added Debugger functionality, checks for rewrites and points potential issues.
Admin module name changes

What’s new in version 1.5.3 - September 20, 2017

Table prefix error fix.
Menu and ACL restructuring.
Magento Enterprise column name change fix.
Compatibility with Magento 2.2 function type compilation fix.
Fix for product, category default exclude sitemap, update try catch.

What’s new in version 1.0.3 - May 16, 2017

Added translations files under /i18n/en_US.csv.

What’s new in v.1.0.2 - March 11, 2017

Fixed table prefix error

What’s new in v.1.0.0 - 01/19/2017

Initial release