SEO Optimization and XML Sitemap Issues

  • Resolved larryd23

    (@larryd23)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    A couple of questions regarding SEO:

    1.) You claim that each product page is search engine friendly, however I have found that this is not the case. Search engines will log the main catalog page, but not individual products. Is there a way to rectify this? Not having the individual products searchable by search engines is a big problem.

    2.) In the premium features area, there is a option for the XML Sitemap URL. What do I put here? I tried various folders on my site but I don’t see any xml file appear anywhere. I assume this XML file will help search engines categorize my individual products but I can’t find it anywhere. Suggestions? What should the file be? I can search my server if I know that.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-product-catalogue/

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  • Plugin Author Rustaurius

    (@rustaurius)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hi larry,

    What settings do you currently have for the “Pretty Permalinks” page? In our testing, we didn’t have any issues with getting individual pages crawled. One suggestion would be to drop the “List” layout from your catalogue, as that layout contains the entire product description in each product listing, which will pump up the main catalog page at the expense of the individual product pages.

    For the XML sitemap, sorry if the help popup isn’t clear. The URL that goes in there should be the URL of your catalog. It’s used as a base for the sitemap file that’s generated. The file itself is created in the main plugin folder, and you can link to it from your site’s main sitemap file. Here’s a link on multiple sitemaps if it helps:

    https://perishablepress.com/multiple-sitemaps/

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