| Virtuemart SEO 3 - Sitemaps |
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| Wednesday, 05 September 2007 | |
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First ChoiceBy far the best choice is the SEF Service Map in combination with its Virtuemart plugin. After installing the SEF Service Map, download the plugin and upload it to /administrator/components/com_sefservicemap.
This plugin provides quite a few options including the ability to show/hide products and categories, and show/hide product and category descriptions. It also includes a .txt site map for Yahoo.
Second ChoiceIf you prefer not to add VM products to you main Site Map, Alejandro Kurczyn over on the Virtuemart forums has designed a way to generate a standalone map for VM.
Livemap is a single file that can be uploaded to your root folder and then added to Google's Webmaster Console. Third Choice
Joomap. We recommend this for many sites, but why not VM sites? Simple - it only lists VM categories, whereas the ideal tactic is to concentrate on having individual product pages indexed.
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Comments (4)
  written by Amine Hambaba, September 06, 2007
I have used alot of Joomla sitemap extensions but none worked the way I wanted it to. So I tried out, Unlimited Sitemap Generator , http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/st...rator.html. It makes several sitemap formats and indexs what I want, so far I have been happy with and have gotten great results with it with all my Joomla! based websites. As of now that is my solution for sitemaps for Joomla.
 written by Jarret Dresch, March 27, 2008
Steve, I have to say, as I have often times, you offer truly great advise. However, I am a bit surprised that you have chosen this as a sitemap solution. By your recommmendation, I have recently tried this sitemap instead of xmap to see if it would generate better results, however, it is so incredibly slow that my dedicated server actually CRAWLED for the first time because of the strain this sitemap causes. My suspicion that the sitemap was the root cause was solidified by the resources my SQL database was driven to after the install and configuration. I have to say, on this one, I think you may want to reconsider something else. I am not entirely happy with XMap, and I can tell you that Joomap is a bad solution as Googles webmaster tools does not even recognize the site map as I had to pay a price to learn. Until something better comes along, I am going to stay with XMap until someone can point out a better solution.
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