link"Advanced Sitemap for CS-Cart" documentation

The add-on is designed for SEO sitemaps improvement. The add-on provides work of sitemap according to the search systems requirements (with no unnecessary data transmission) that was designed on the bases of requirements during implementation of SEO audit.
The main advantages of the add-on are:

• creation of the detailed XML sitemap of the products, categories, pages, brands, stores;
• creation of XML sitemap of product images that will help to improve the indexation of images with search systems;
• separates site maps by the number of links to objects according to the limits at 50,000 links or 10 Mb in size;
• creation of indexical XML sitemap that contains links for all XML sitemaps;
• do not use the optional attributes that cannot work at CS-Cart platform correctly and increase the files sizes (e.g., by default in the add-on at attribute lmod there is a date of sitemap creation for every object);
• integration with the other add-ons from AlexBranding (e.g., exclude denied pages from sitemap with AB: Indexation management, add the links for SEO pages into the sitemap from the AB: SEO pages for filters add-on);
• full support of multistores and multivendors;
• allows to regenerate the sitemap as with administration panel as by scheduled jobs at CRON;
• optimization of HTML sitemap (allows to exclude empty categories, brands pages etc. from sitemap).

Add-on is compatible with the following Themes:

• YoupiTheme (compatible with correspond CS-Cart version);
• UniTheme2 (compatible with correspond CS-Cart version);
• Responsive.

General technical support conditions are available at this link (be sure to review these conditions, all solutions from the AlexBranding development team come with limited technical support).

In order to use our technical support, you need to:

1. Log in with your order owner account on https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com;
2. Go to the page My Account → Orders;
3. Find the corresponding order with the problem add-on in the orders list and pass to its details;
4. Find the “Support” link next to the corresponding add-on name (near you can find Documentation link also) and click on it;
5. Fill in the data with the problem, provide access to your CS-Cart installation (path to the administration panel, admin mail, admin password + FTP access) and create a ticket (after you will create the ticket, you will receive an e-mail and a special code to track the ticket in the future);
6. Wait for the specialist answer in accordance with the regulations of the technical support service and the priority of your ticket.

If you didn't receive an answer within the deadlines, according to the chosen ticket priority, send e-mail info@alexbranding.com with the ticket number, for which you did not receive an answer in time, and the team manager will solve the problem in compliance with regulations.

You can test the addon work with admin access using our demo server Demos for CS-Cart solutions from Alexbranding by choosing it in Addons list or just follow the link.

We recommend to note general restrictions:

1. All solutions from AlexBranding developers team require pre-installation of the AB: Addons Manager service addon. It is delivered free of charge and is responsible for such services: installation, upgrades, license verifications. Excluding this service addon usage is not possible;
2. Addon files may have a closed (encoded) part, in which only a license check is located;
3. The addon will work only on those domains, that are specified in the user's license. If you try to use the solution on CS-Cart installations, whose domains are not included in the license, the addon will be automatically turned off;
4. Local installation is not possible, so that the addon works on the additional domain (subdomain), enter this domain (subdomain) in the Domain field, when ordering (or write to info@alexbranding.com) - adding technical domains for the developing or for testing is always free.

After your order has been processed by our manager, it will be transferred to Completed state, you will receive an email to your mailbox with ordered add-ons license numbers (usually it takes from 15 minutes to 8 hours depending on the day time and week day).

Then follow the steps below, which differs depending on your version of the CS-Cart platform:

You can also install the add-on with a standard installation for CS-Cart. To do this, download the appropriate archive with an add-on version compatible with your version of the CS-Cart platform.
Go to the website cs-cart.alexbranding.com, log in under the account of the order holder and go to the page My Profile → Orders → Relevant Order, go to details and you will see a list of available archives for the ordered add-on. Download the version (archive) you need and make the installation (standard for CS-Cart installation: Add-ons → Downloaded add-ons and in the gearwheel menu select Manual installation).

For access to the add-on settings you should go to the page Administration panel → Add-ons → Manage add-ons and at the add-on name in the gearwheel menu select appropriate menu item.

Add-on adds tags <image:title> and <image:caption> into XML sitemap that add description for images. Pay attention, there is integration between XML sitemap of images and AB: Auto-generation of Alt and Title attributes for images add-on (see the details by reference).

Make sure that in the site root do not lie files with names sitemap.xml, sitemap1.xml, image1.xml и т.д.
After add-on installing go to its settings and set sitemap desirable parameters. Don't forget to save settings after the changes. Then go to the sitemap generation page:

Start sitemap generation by pressing the button Generate sitemap or adjust a Cron command:

In the Add-ons tab on the blog editing posts or pages, you can set them the name which will be displayed only in the HTML sitemap.

To add the user links go to the page Administration panel → Add-ons → Manage add-ons and at the add-on name AB: Advanced sitemap in the gearwheel menu select User's links in XML sitemap.

Press the Add button, enter desirable value dispatch or link. You can use the following parameters:

• value dispatch — categories.catalog или products.view&product_id=12 (most preferred variant, convert to all languages automatically);
• relative links — /catalog/ or /mens-clothing/100g-pants/. For every language it is necessary to add separate link manually;
• absolute links — http://example.com/catalog/ or http://example.com/mens-clothing/100g-pants/. It is automatically converted to the relative link.

For example, for adding catalog page and promotions list link to XML sitemap, it is necessary to add value dispatch, categories.catalog and promotions.list. Result will be next:

Result of the user's links adding

To generate the sitemap go to the page Administration panel → Add-ons → Manage add-ons and at the add-on name AB: Advanced sitemap in the gearwheel menu select Sitemap generation (if you have several storefronts, select the appropriate storefront where you wish to generate the sitemap).

Start the sitemap generation clicking the button Generate the sitemap or schedule jobs at Cron.

Structure of XML file

Structure of XML file is divided by types of pages (by categories, products, pages, blogs, etc.) that improve usability in the follow processes:

• use of XML file;
• tracking of SEO values separately for every type of the page;
• maintenance of statistics and analytics separately for every type of the page.

To set access rights to the add-on functionality, go to the page Administration panel → Customers → User groups and in the group editing window choose Privileges tab.