The software comes with a built-in sitemap that
your customers can view to easily find products or pages on your site
without navigating through categories or menus. Customers reach this
page at http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.aspx NOTE: see notes below for submitting a sitemap to search engines.
Sitemap Contents
There are 2 ways to control which parts of the site show up on the sitemap:
Settings
The following Settings will disable entire sections of the sitemap:
SiteMap.ShowCategories
SiteMap.ShowCustomerService
SiteMap.ShowDocuments
SiteMap.ShowLibraries
SiteMap.ShowManufacturers
SiteMap.ShowProducts
SiteMap.ShowSections
SiteMap.ShowTopics
Topics
You can also prevent individual topicsfrom appearing on the sitemap page, by unchecking the box next to Publish in Site Map.
Submitting a Sitemap to Search Engines
Search engines like Google will have some specific guidelines and
best practices to follow for setting up a site map. ASPDotNetStorerfront
does this for you and uses the XML option for formatting the sitemap.
When submitting your site map to Google, or any search engine that
required XML for indexing, use htttp://yourdomain.com/sitemapfeed
Submit your sitemap to Google
There are two different ways to make your sitemap available to Google:
Submit it to Google using the Search Console Sitemaps tool: ADD/TEST SITEMAP: http://example.com/sitemapfeed OR
Insert the following line anywhere in your robots.txt file, specifying the path to your sitemap: Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemapfeed
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