How to Configure Magento 2 Sitemap
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Configuring the sitemap in Magento 2 Admin allows you to apply an awesome Magento tool with a document file which contains all of website’s URL and possibly direct people to any page on Magento stores quickly. In addition to the utility of direction, Magento 2 sitemap is also an easy way to point what pages are ready for crawling to any search engines, that is very useful for your better SEO.
Moreover, for the visitors, the sitemap is the same as a traditional geographical map in the real world because the Magento sitemap will help them visit pages they are looking for without wasting time looking around a website. Thus, configuring the sitemap on your store is very necessary, but it is not required if a store is too small and uncomplicated in the page organization.
Before configuring the sitemap, ensure that the sitemap is enabled, see the previous topic. When everything is ready, start following these 4 steps.
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Magento 2 Sitemap: 4 steps to set-up your website’s sitemap
- Step 1: Configure the Frequency and Priority of Content Updates
- Step 2: Sitemap Generation Settings
- Step 3: Configure the Sitemap File Limits
- Step 4: Complete the Search Engine Submission Settings
Step 1: Configure the Frequency and Priority of Content Updates
- On the Admin panel, click
Stores
. In theSettings
section, selectConfiguration
. - Select
XML Sitemap
underCatalog
in the panel on the left - Open the
Categories Options
section, and continue with following:
- In the
Frequency
field, select one of the following:- Always
- Hourly
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Yearly
- Never
-
In the
Priority
field, enter a value between 0.0 and 1.0. Set Zero if the priority is the lowest - Open the
Products Options
section.
- In the 2 first fields: complete the
Frequency and Priority
settings as mentioned above -
In the
Add images into Sitemap
field, select one of the following to determine the extent that images are included in the sitemap- None
- Base Only
- All
-
Open the CMS Pages Options section, complete the
Frequency and Priority
settings as mentioned above - When complete, click
Save Config
.
Step 2: Sitemap Generation Settings
- Open the
Generation Settings
section.
-
Set
Enabled
field intoYes
and follow the guide below- In the
Start Time
field, choose the hour, minute and second that update the sitemap - In the
Frequency
field, choose one of the following- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- In the
Error Email Recipient
field, enter the email address of the person who will be received notification whenever an error occurs during a sitemap update. - In the
Error Email Sender
field, choose one of the following:- General Contact
- Sales representative
- Customer support
- Custom email
- In the Error Email Sender field, choose the template used for the error notification.
- In the
Step 3: Configure the Sitemap File Limits
- Open the
Sitemap File Limits
section.
- In the
Maximum No of URLs Per File
field, enter the maximum number of URLs per file. The default limit is 50,000. - In the
Maximum File Size
field, enter the maximum file size in bytes. The default size is 10,485,760 bytes.
Step 4: Complete the Search Engine Submission Settings
-
Open the
Search Engine Submission Settings
section. -
In the
Enable Submission
to Robots.txt field, selectYes
to provide instructions to search engines that crawl your site by using arobots.txt
file. -
When complete, click
Save Config
.
Read How to configure Robots.txt in Magento 2
The bottom line
Now you know how to use Magento 2 sitemap to boost up the SEO performance for your website. In addition, you can add Google XML Sitemap, HTML sitemap to your Magento 2 store, available on Github for free. We hope you can configure Magento 2 Sitemap with ease and contact us in case of any problems. Also, please check out the SEO-related posts below for more information.
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