With regard sitemapping a site made with price-tapestry, I amd just considering generating my own sitemaps instead of using the PT ones just because of my sub category setup.
And I wondered if you would know whether when setting a sitemap up to spider a site made by price tapestry, unless I specify to not spider certain urls, the sitemap would contain the same product pages a few times in different places, such as merchant/product.html and brand/product.html.
I am not sure if it would be of added benefit because of extra links to each product page, or in fact incur a dupe conent penalty, to have the product pages listed in both secions of the site. As in terms of keywords in URLs it could be helpful to have some with brand name, some with merchant name. But also as it would be same page being indexed it might incur a penalty for duplicate content?
Do you have an opinion on this, whether it is worth putting the product pages on the sitemap from the different urls, or would it just be a waste of time and I would be better off just putting one example of each product page in the sitemap from one section?
I just wanted to ask an opinion really before I set the sitemap generator up.
Thanks, and by the way, I mentioned before that I was getting some redirect error messages on my google sitemaps, I resubmitted them and got no errors, so must have just been a one off thing that resolved by itself.
Anyway I have checked and I am able to block paths in the sitemap generator, so I think I will do as you suggest.
I am actually going to stick with PT sitemaps for google because its so easy with them updating literally as I upload new products, and just use the generator to make text and html ones for the other engines.
Clare
Hi Clare,
That should work fine on a default installation as there is only 1 link to each product. If you have made modifications that generate a brand/product-name.html in addition to product/product-name.html then I would recommend blocking the additional paths (assuming that your sitemap generator can do this) and just let it map the main product/ links.
Cheers,
David.