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Google Sitemap for Magento 2 User Guide

• Table of Content
• Extension Installation Guide
• XML Sitemap Settings
• Auto Sitemap Generation Settings
• HTML Sitemap Settings
• Manage XML Sitemaps
• XML and HTML Sitemaps in Frontend

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• Extension Installation
• For Magento Marketplace Customers
• Create a folder structure in Magento root as
  app/code/Meetanshi/GoogleSitemap
• Download and extract the zip folder and upload
  our extension files to the app/code/Meetanshi/Goo
  gleSitemap via FTP.
• Login to your SSH and run below commands step by
  step
• php bin/magento setupupgrade
• For Magento version 2.0.x to 2.1.x - php
  bin/magento setupstatic-contentdeploy
• For Magento version 2.2.x above - php
  bin/magento setupstatic-contentdeploy f
• php bin/magento cacheflush
• For Meetanshi Customers
• Extract the zip folder and upload our extension
  to the root of your Magento 2 directory via FTP.
• Login to your SSH and run below commands step by
  step
• php bin/magento setupupgrade
• For Magento version 2.0.x to 2.1.x - php
  bin/magento setupstatic-contentdeploy
• For Magento version 2.2.x above - php
  bin/magento setupstatic-contentdeploy f
• php bin/magento cacheflush

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• Auto Sitemap Generation Settings
• The extension facilitates to schedule auto
  sitemap updation on regular intervals. Enable the
  auto sitemap generation settings to automate
  sitemap update on timely basis.
• Update Frequency Enter number of days after
  which the XML sitemap should be updated
  automatically.
• Send Sitemap Error Email Set YES to send sitemap
  error, if any, occurs while sitemap auto
  updation.
• Email ID of Recipient Enter Email ID of the
  recipient on which you want to receive sitemap
  error email notification.
• Email Sender Select the Email sender.
• Error Email Template Select the error Email
  template.

• HTML Sitemap Settings
• Along with the XML sitemap, the extension allows
  generating HTML sitemap. It is a bulleted
  outline text version of the site navigation. It
  allows site visitors to easily navigate a
  website.
• HTML Sitemap Enable Google HTML Sitemap from
  here.
• Category URLs in Sitemap Select Include to
  include category URLs in HTML sitemap.
• Product URLs in Sitemap Select Include to
  include product URLs in HTML sitemap.
• CMS Pages URLs in Sitemap Select Include to
  include CMS pages URLs in HTML sitemap.
• Exclude CMS Pages Select the CMS pages to
  exclude from the HTML sitemap.
• Enable Additional Links Set YES to add more
  custom links into the HTML sitemap.
• Additional Links Enter one link per line to
  include in the HTML sitemap.
• Sitemap link to Footer Select YES to add HTML
  sitemap link into the footer for users to easily
  find the HTML sitemap.

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5. Manage XML Sitemaps The extension facilitates
to manage and add sitemaps through a separate
backend grid named Manage XML Sitemaps. Here,
you can see the sitemap generation details like
ID, file name, path, URL, store view and sitemap
generation date and time.

• Add Sitemap
• On click of Add Sitemap button, one can add new
  sitemap.
• File Name Enter the file name of the XML
  sitemap.
• Path Enter the location where the sitemap
  resides on the server.
• Store View Select the store view for which the
  sitemap applies.

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• XML and HTML Sitemaps in Frontend
• Immediately after the successful sitemap
  generation, both the XML and HTML sitemaps can be
  seen.
• XML Sitemap Index file
• Sitemap index files handles multiple sitemap
  files. Sitemap index files can be viewed as a
  directory that provides information about the
  website in XML format for search engines.
  Sitemap index file positively influence indexing
  by notifying a crawler and includes the
• information on where to search for sitemaps and
  when the sitemaps have last been modified.

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• XML Sitemap File
• The XMl sitemap file includes information about
  the pages and other files on your site. XML
  sitemap tells Google about the important pages of
  the website and provides valuable information
  about the same like number of URLs included,
  when a particular URL was
• modified recently, etc.

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• HTML Sitemap Link in Footer
• If you have enabled the option to show HTML
  sitemap link to footer, users can see the link
  and click on it to view the HTML sitemap.

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• HTML Sitemap
• On click of the HTML sitemap link from the
  footer, users can see HTML sitemap page having
  all the pages included as in the configuration.

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