Had a client that was having troubles generating a sitemap for the Magento Shopping.
Magento’s site manual has some good info to get you going on it but it required a few steps further.
1) Sitemaps are defined in Top Menu > Catalog > Google Sitemap. Magento sitemaps contain the URLs for Category pages, Product pages and CMS pages.
2) Using FTP I created a folder called sitemaps, set the permissions on it to writable.
3) Added an htacess file to prevent php code execution using the following
Order Deny,Allow Deny from all
4) Ran the generate now button in Magento.
5) Added the xml sitemap location to the robots.txt file to ensure it can be found.
6) Did my little SEO web crawler dance to ensure indexing.
6) Sat back and enjoyed the new xml sitemap in all its glory.
Hope this can help someone
Shone
