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Empower your Magento 2 store's SEO performance by automating the generation of XML sitemaps, ensuring better search engine visibility. The Magento 2 XML Sitemap Extension helps you easily manage and optimize your XML sitemaps for Google and other search engines, leading to improved indexing and search rankings.

Key Features:

Automated XML Sitemap Generation: Automatically generate XML sitemaps for products, categories, CMS pages, and custom URLs.
Priority and Frequency Settings: figure the priority and frequency settings for different types of pages (e.g., product, category, CMS pages) to guide search engines on how often pages should be crawled.
Multiple Store Support: Generate separate sitemaps for each store view to manage multi-language or multi-region stores efficiently.
Custom URL Support: Add any custom URLs to the XML sitemap that are not automatically included by default.
Exclude Pages: Exclude specific products, categories, or CMS pages from the sitemap based on your requirements.
Split Large Sitemaps: Automatically split large sitemaps into smaller files to stay within search engine limits and ensure efficient crawling.
Sitemap Index File: Generate a sitemap index file that links to all individual sitemaps for seamless submission to search engines.
Cron Job Support: Set up a cron job to automate the sitemap generation process at regular intervals, ensuring your sitemap is always up-to-date.

Benefits:

Enhanced SEO Visibility: Ensure that all important pages of your website are indexed by search engines, improving SEO and search rankings.
Better Search Engine Crawling: Guide search engines on how frequently your pages are updated, optimizing how your site is crawled.
Improved User Experience: Ensure that search engine users can easily find the latest versions of your products and content in search results.

Compatibility:

This extension is compatible with Magento 2.x versions, ensuring seamless integration with your existing store setup.

Installation:

Install via composer (recommend) -

Easy installation process with step-by-step instructions provided for hassle-free setup.

composer require mavenbird/module-xml-sitemap
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
php bin/magento cache:flush

Upgrade/Update Module:

Run the following command in Magento 2 root folder for easy update -

composer update mavenbird/module-xml-sitemap
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
php bin/magento cache:flush

Customization Options:

Customizable Sitemaps: Tailor the settings for frequency, priority, and exclusions to match your store's SEO strategy.
Custom URL Integration: Easily add additional URLs to the sitemap, such as landing pages or special campaign URLs.

Configure at Your Ease