Introduction

Google Sitemaps is an easy tool for webmasters to inform Google about pages on its sites that are available for crawling.

Google Sitemaps

Figure 1 shows the Google Sitemaps listing page under the admin>Tools>Google Sitemaps section.

• Create Sitemaps
  Set the renewal frequencies of Categories, Products and Articles in Daily, Monthly or Yearly depending on your business need. You can also configure the priority of each item in Figure 1. Click Create Sitemaps to save these settings.
  Note: The more constantly a store updates products or articles, the more frequently sitemaps tend to be created. The priority setting ranges from 0.00 to 1.00, two valid figures admitted. The larger the value is set, the higher priority it possesses.


• Submit Sitemaps to Google

When the settings of Sitemaps have been customized, you have not set a Sitemaps successfully until you submit them to Google Spider. You will receive a sitemap notification from the Google site as Figure 2 shows whether the process of submission is completed successfully. Depending on the suggestions in the notification, you can apply for a Google account to track your website visa Google webmasters’ tools.

Note: Make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet when performing the process of submission, otherwise, you cannot execute this action successfully.