Hi Nicholas,
Sorry if I caused some confusion, after my long stay in the hospital my entire brain and thought process is confused! lol
Let me ask this slightly differently...
The version that is currently installed is a Component called Sitemap Generator found by marcobeierer.com. My site has more than 500 links so I need to purchase a license at some point because this one as well as OSMap, JSitemap, and all others I have found will only create the sitemap with more then 500 links with a paid license.
I mentioned JSitemap as it was recommended by another user when I was very new on this forum and had a similar question.
My reason for asking here on the HikaShop forums is because I want to ensure that if I am going to pay for one, I want one that will be the best for creating a sitemap for a HikaShop Ecommerce site.
As I understand things (please correct me if I am wrong) HikaShop and other Ecommerce sites create a lot of dynamic links, and being dynamic I either need to create a new sitemap each time there are changes to the product listings or just not include the links that are dynamic, likely not a good idea as any new, removed, or modified product listings would not be in the sitemap.
I also do not use some features that are specifically looked for by some sitemap generators such as Blogs, RSS Feeds, Media (except for the product images), and Articles (exceptions being the Terms of Agreement for Checkout and the like, but no user created articles at all).
While my knowledge on the exact way what search engines use the sitemap.xml and the image sitemap etc, I wanted to make sure that the sitemap generator I settle on is going to be the best one to work with an ECommerce site that uses HikaShop, and this is the reason that I asked you guys. I do plan (based on your suggestion) to ask this question on the Joomla Forums, but I figured you guys would be the best to ask which sitemap generator works best on a HikaShop built ECommerce site.
I suppose that it is possible that virtually any sitemap generator can be used and it's up to me to decide what is included or excluded from the sitemap when I set up the crawler that generates the sitemap, and if so, I would ask if this is documented anywhere so that I can know how to create the best possible sitemap where links with variables are not included like these:
https://www.eutopiantrader.com/my-account/my-profile?view=reset
https://www.eutopiantrader.com/my-account/my-profile?view=remind
I am thinking that it's possibly my lack of understanding that is making me ask this question the way I am, meaning that the more I look at this all, the more I think that perhaps this all has to do with the way in which I set up the application creating sitemap rather than choosing a specific application. I just wanted to see what application would be best for a site created with HikaShop.
What sitemap generation application(s) is most used by those who have a HikaShop ECommerce website?
Yes I will ask on the Joomla Forums as well.
I hope this clarifies the question and the reason for asking here.
Cheers,
John
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