Dynamic HIERARCHICAL sitemaps for large sites USED to be very slow. For awhile, we made these for our clients using a variation of the category tree, but it was SLOW, even if we used a third-party module. And the more categories you added, and the more levels deep the structure became, the slower the page was to load.

Then we thought - Miva Merchant 5.5 can use MySQL, so let's take advantage of that.

The result is our new SuperFast Nested Sitemap module. It shows a structured hierarchical sitemap of your categories. By hierarchical, we mean parent, subcategory, sub-subcategory, etc. And it can be completely controlled using Store Morph Technology (SMT), so you can make it look exactly the way you want.

Here are three examples we have in place with screenshots, depth, category count, and load time statistics. We can't guarantee that things will stay the same on these sites forever, but links are shown as well so you can see for yourself how fast these are.

Examples

Click the links above to see for yourself how fast this module is. Then think about how it can improve YOUR Miva Merchant store, for both customers and search engine spiders. Then give it a try.

Two example templates are provided - one is an unordered list as shown on the MyPaperShop and RestaurantEquipmentSolutions sites above, the other uses CSS and div tags to display columns as shown on the SFCable example above. Either should get you started, and you can customize the display using SMT as much as you like.

MySQL is required. We have not tested this on MivaSQL stores, because we know it either wouldn't work, or wouldn't be fast at all. Support is limited to MySQL stores running Miva Merchant 5.0 or higher.