Sitemap.xml for search engines

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Is there a openly available solution for generating a sitemap.xml file? eCommerce competitors seem to like to brag about this.

I found this thread: http://www.oxid-esales.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1933

But it’s much too long to understand with Google translate. Did that thread result in a fine-tuned script? Or are the results of that thread available elsewhere, such as the wiki?

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Hi Shaun,

this one looks like the latest version:
http://www.oxid-esales.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1933&page=4#post30626

In this post, some changes have been made to the final script:
http://www.oxid-esales.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1933&page=8#post80948

Would be good to have this extension on a certain place, right?

Regards

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Awesome, thx. I can’t read German, but I can read the code so comparing these two versions should be easy enough. I’ll try 'em out and then post back the results.

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Finally got around to this. Found the latest code on GitHub (loving this GitHub stuff) and everything worked beautifully.

I forked the project and plan to make the following changes:

  • Add news link (this is pretty important search-engine content if updated regularly)
  • Give product links a higher priority than CMS pages (i find product pages generate more visitors from google than CMS pages so I feel they should given a higher importance relative to what should be crawled)
  • Add (missing) f option to gzip command otherwise existing files are not overwritten
  • Add CMSFOLDER_USERINFO back to getCmsSite() otherwise no default CMS content is included.