I just noticed the XLM Sitemap settings in the SEO tab. Can someone explain what, if anything, I should be entering in the 3 fields?
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The XML sitemap was a great add on by NETSOL, this way we don't have to keep generating new sitemaps each time products or pages are changed, added, or deleted. The three features are quite important.

The priority is a signal of the importance of the page and the values range from 0.0 to 1.0, the higher the priority the more important is the page. Pages with a priority of 1.0 should be pages like your home page or index. It is important to make only one or two pages with a priority of 1.0 and all others should be less than this.

The frequency is how often you update the content of the page. If you update content on a page every week, set it accordingly, this will help the crawler determine how often to recrawl your pages. Here you have options of Always, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Never. By default web 2.0 sites (social, blogs, etc) are always or hourly. Most pages on an eCommerce site are either daily, weekly, or monthly. I have never set a frequency to yearly or never.

Hope that makes it clear.

Alex
http://www.LilianaInternational.com

Alex,

I thank you for your reply, but I am still confused. The choices I see art Category Pages, Content Pages, and Product Pages, each with a priority box and Change Frequency box. Which one of those is my home page or index page?

Jeanne

Dear Jeanne,

Sorry, I didn't look at your question carefully. Your product pages represent every page created for each one of your products. Every product you create on your site has its own page, these are the product pages and these should have a lower priority and frequency.

Your category pages are the pages that have all of your products on them. For example you have a category called stamps, and all of the individual stamp pages would be listed on this category page.

Your content pages are any pages on the site that have no products on them just information, such pages would be contact us, about us, etc...

However, your home page even though it can have products on it is in fact a content page, thus I would make priority 1.0 for content pages and set frequency to daily. Then I would have priority of 0.9 for category pages, frequency to weekly, and priority of <0.9 and frequency of monthly for product pages.

Let me know if this makes sense.

Alex
http://www.LilianaInternational.com