Quickly and easily generate sitemap (sitelink) files which can supply direct, optimized links to your categories and products for search engine indexing. The links can be standard Merchant, or directory style, or shortened, static file appearing links. This module is for MIVA Merchant 5.x. We also have the corresponding module for an older version of Merchant.
Site Map Files The Swap Link module can further enhance your chances of
search engine ranking by producing static sitelink*.htm files
which list all of your categories and products with
shorter links.
This feature is configurable to
allow you to optimize the sitelink pages with meta tags, key word rich text, etc. The site link pages are generated
very quickly through admin. You can optionally include the
price and a brief description of the item. The brief description uses the first 100
characters of the full product description. As long as
you don't go overboard with your narrative (top of page)
text, each page will be less than 100K. If multiple pages
are required to include your whole catalog, a link to the
next page is included on each page. If you have the ability
to re-write the .htaccess file on your domain, you can use
directory style links or static appearing links on the sitelink pages. See the install
doc for more information on this feature. You
can even include the affiliate link.
The module currently fully supports the mivasql configuration of MIVA Merchant 5. It also supports MySQL as long as load balancing has the data stored on the single MySQL server and
permissions are set correctly on the data
directories. This would be the case in most of the server setups. If you are using Merchant 5.x and your host is web.com, you will not be able to use this module due to the way they configure their servers. There are no known issues with
other hosts.
