Comments on: How to Add a Dynamic Sitemap to Your Site

By: hartlenn

hartlenn — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:06:17 +0000

So UPDATE: forget about the code change comment above; the code actually changed in my comment as well, after I submitted it. I guess it’s supposed to do this.
YT
HL

By: hartlenn

hartlenn — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:29:56 +0000

Hi Again,
Re my last post about problem adding marks sitemap. I just looked at the header code that I had added above the tag, and I noticed a couple of bits of it have changed, since I hit the update header button. I had not modified the header with rss or permalink mods.
The line and line ?> has changed to ?>
Thought this might be a clue.
Thanks again.
HartLenn

By: hartlenn

hartlenn — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:45:39 +0000

HI Rochelle
Thanks for the reply. I have gone through the sitemap instructions on your site and no luck. I did all the steps and had no error that I could see until I did step 4 ( copy & paste header-changes-01.txt to my header.php just above the tag)
After updating the header, my store now has a double high header. When I go to my sitemap page it is just blank. I did change all the text color codes for the sitemap in styles.css because my store background color is black.
If you could suggest what the problem might be, I’ll go check it out.
ONE QUESTION, The first step where I mod my CONT/fontcontrol.php file in cpanel, Do I mod the CONT folder in my main folder or the one in public-html or both? Maybe that’s the problem?
Thanks a bunch again
HartLenn

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:47:54 +0000

Hartlenn,

No, you don’t need to do anything more.

As to resubmitting the sitemap to Google, if your previous sitemap was not dynamic then, yes, you will want to resubmit it.

Rochelle

By: HartLenn

HartLenn — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:32:24 +0000

Hi Rochelle
I’m just finally adding Marks ’store view’ sitemap to my V2 stores. They have both been upgraded to V2 EPN. Is there anything different I need to do to install marks sitemap. Also do I need to re submit the dynamic sitemap to google again now that I’ve upgraded to EPN or is it still fine. Google has downloaded my sitemaps frequently and recently and the status of both my
V2 store sitemaps is OK
thanks a bunch
HartLenn

By: ameer

ameer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:28:34 +0000

ok sounds good rochelle, thanks for the response. Keep up the good work!

By: Rochelle

Rochelle — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:58:40 +0000

Ameer,

I’m sure you can. Probably the easiest way to achieve this is to delete your sitemap.php and start over. But before you add this mod open the sitemap.php file that you download from WebMogul and change the setting from ‘weekly’ to ‘daily’.

The reason I suggest starting over is the sitemap.php on your site will contain links to every page you have. It would be quicker to start over than to change the frequency for every link.

Rochelle

By: ameer

ameer — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:45:15 +0000

hello rochelle, quick question, how can i change the dynamic aspect of it from weekly to daily? Thanks in advance.

P.S. your site has been very helpful.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:47:46 +0000

Rochelle, scratch the message above. The order of the pages were changed on the sitemap. All ok.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:27:10 +0000

Hi Rochelle,
I’ve just followed your instructions above, however not all pages are showing in the sitemap.xml.

I deleted and did over 2nd time with same result.
Is there any further advice you could offer.

Thanks
Shelley