Google Sitemap XML
Build your Site Map online in XML, ROR, Text, HTML formats. By having a professionally created sitemap for your website, the Search Engines spiders, will be able to index your website more accurately, and thus help increase your Google Page Rank. This is a good form of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
Simply download the contribution, view the readme instructions included and goto XML’s Website. No need to create accounts or register any personal information, just simply enter your websites URL and submit the form.
The XML website will let you:
(1) Create an XML sitemap format that can be submitted to Google to help them crawl your website better.
(2) Create a Text sitemap to submit to Yahoo.
(3) Create a ROR sitemap, which is an independent XML format for any search engine.
(4) Generate an HTML site map to allow human visitors to easily navigate on your website.
XML Sitemaps in 4 Easy Steps
(a) Enter your full website URL and some optional parameters into the provided form.
(b) Press the ‘Start’ button and wait until your website is completely crawled (the progress will be indicated)
(c) You will see the generated sitemap details page, including number of pages, broken links list, XML file content and link to a compressed sitemap. Download the sitemap file using this link and put it into the “public_html/” folder of your site.
(d) Go to your Google Webmaster account (http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview) and add your sitemap URL.
Please check About Google sitemaps (http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html) page for more info.
Download URL: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4794
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Spider Session Remover ( SID Killer )
This contribution uses Apache mod_rewite to look for specific spiders, and remove the
session (osCsid) from the URL, and return a ‘301′ back to the spider.
Basically, if the spider tries to do this:
GET /www.example.com/product_info.php?products_id=24&osCsid=ac8d8926059625ecb8dd9115f91d5f8a
the Apache mod_rewrite will rewrite the url to be:
GET /www.example.com/product_info.php?products_id=24
and also return a “301″ (Moved Permanently) to the spider.
The problem
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You may use one of the following:
* 2-2MS2 “Prevent Spider Sessions” admin feature is set to true.
* SID Killer contribution (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,952)
* Spider Killer for MS1 contribution (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1089)
All of these features are very good, and aim to prevent spiders from adding an session
ID (osCsid) to the url.
However, what if a spider started to crawl your website BEFORE you enabled one of the
above features ? What can happen, is that the (previously) harvested URLS with SIDs in
them will show as results in search engines. Afterwards, often many months later, you
will still see the spider trying to access the the URLs it harvested earlier with the
session ID in it.
In summary, URL’s with sessions ID’s were harvested PRIOR to any session disabling, and
therefore these URL’s are now indexed in search engines, and the spiders continue to
re-visit your website using the URL’s with the ‘osCsid’ in them.
The Solution
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So, how do we remove these session ID’s for the spiders that continue to use the previously
harvested URL ? By the use of Apache mod_rewrite, look for the spider agent name, and if
the condition is true, re-write the URL without the ‘osCsid’ in it, and ALSO return a “301″
back to the spider.
What results from the mod_rewite
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As to what the search engines will do, they’ll see the 301-Moved Permanently response,
re-fetch the page from the new (osCsid-less) URL given in that response, and, ……
after a while, update their database to use the new URL.
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Header Tags Controller
Header Tags Controller gives you the ability to edit and update the meta tags information for all the pages of your oscommerce shop. It comes with an advanced admin controll section where you can add meta tags information manually or choose to have all the meta tags information filled in automatically.
Features:
- Manual editing of meta tags for for products, categories, manefacturers, front page and individual shop pages.
- Optional admin controlled automatic meta tags fill in system for products, categories and manufacturers.
- Seo optimized H1 and H2 tags for relevant product, category and manufacturer info.
- Add description to categories.
URL to download: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,207
Installing Header Tags will help the ratings for your category and product pages out of the box, just by installing it. This is because the installation pre-fills the tags for these items, if you ran fill_tags, with your products name, which in turn causes those pages to be setup correctly for the search engines. This, by itself, is enough to improve the position in the SERP’s (search engine result pages) for those pages and is the reason that many shop owners find their product pages listed before their home page.
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Ultimate SEO URLs
This contribution builds on the cName & pName code to give an even more flexible, search engine friendly, and cross server compatible SEO URLs.
Once installed, Ultimate SEO URLs will give the store owner the choice of the v1.X style cName or new v2.X style static HTML file. This setting is incorporated into the admin control panel so can be toggled on, off, cName, or Rewrite at will.
This contribution will work for any store on any server. It is compatible with not only *NIX based servers but also Windows/IIS servers (although IIS is limited to cName).
In addition, this contribution is compatible with all other contributions by me including Page Cache (directions included in install package).
Contribution URL: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2823
Laterst version: Ultimate SEO URLs - 2.1d + following bug fixes
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