Virtuemart SEO 3 - Sitemaps

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.

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.

I'd love for you to check it out with Xmap back on...Been testing it to see if it will past the test. ANY advice on what I can be doing better is greatly appreciated:
http://www.premiumhumidors.com/sitemap.html

Does this work for joomla 1.5?

So which site map plug in would you recommend with 1.5 VM ?

See the SEF Service Map 2.0 for Joomla! 1.5.
http://www.sefservicemap.com/

I have to agree with Jarret, the beta version of SEF service map for Joomla 1.5 does seem to slow my site to a crawl. I had to remove it in order to get a decent response from my client's site. I was also unable to get the Virtuemart integration working succesfully. So SEFservice map is off my sites until the finished version is complete and tested.

I do hope it works soon.

I'm running Joomla 1.5.9 and I just installed SEF Service Map 2 v. 2.0.4 with the VirtueMart integrator. It works beautifully and doesn't seem to have slowed us down any.

Before any SEF service map for joomla 1.5 & virtuemart 1.1.3, it is mandatory to have SEF URL from virtuemart pages !

I have tried ssh04 - free seo for virtuemart - but it was a nightmare, so I had to switch to a commercial one : SEF advance 2.0.4 and this is working perfectly without slowing down the site !

Chris
www.franceinshirts.com

I just wanted to throw my $.02 in. I had SEF Service Map 2.0 installed with Joomla 1.5 & VirtueMart. I never got it to work correctly to help list all products (only VM categories) but the main issue was it did slow my site down to a stand still.

The plugin caused my page load times to jump to 3,4,5+ seconds to download a single (even cached) page on high speed connection. Once I disabled it, my speed was so much faster and the site preformed as it should.

Even if I worked it to get the Map to include the VM products, its not worth the cost in performance you're sacrificing.

Here so many people commented regarding SEO in VM and am totally new to VM and am using Joomla. So can any one say or conclude what is the best possible solution that will not cut down website performance and gives a good result.??

any suggestion ? I use Sh404Sef beta, i installed on joomla 1.5 with virtuemart, i have also change htaccess.txt become .htaccess, but there is error, is there any extention that works on virtuemart joomla 1.5?

Any conclusion on virtueMart sitemap, which will best to use for website?