Hi David,
How can I adjust my site map so it can accommodate marchant products that are grater than 50,000
Never knew there was an issue with the sitemaps.
I Now have an extra 300,000 products acording to google sitemaps!
Hi David,
I have updated my sitemap.php, however when I check my google stats I still have the same number of ulrs for merchants who have products > 50000
Thanks
Robert
Shopping
Hi Robert,
I think it will take a while for everything to filter through; especially the reporting urls using the allinurl: operator as this (I think) depends on pages that have actually been crawled rather than known about URLs from sitemap files...
Cheers,
David.
I've registered my sites with Google's Webmaster site. It seems to download the sitemap once per day, and will display how many items are in the sitemap and how many it's searched.
When I noticed this thread the first time I took a note - 800,447 items in the sitemap on 25/2/2008.
I updated the sitemap on the 25th, and on the 26th Google Webmaster tools was reporting the sitemap now contained 1,110,352 items.
You can check the sitemap manually by going to /sitemap.php - then looks for lines ending like like merchant=CD+WOW&start=50000
That looks good, Paulzie!
This is all a bit embarassing! When Price Tapestry was released (2 years ago now!) I didn't expect people to be using it with merchants > 50,000 products; but as it turns out that hardware capabilities have moved on and people are easily working with > 1,000,000 products (with a bit of MySQL configuration tweaking) there's no reason not to support it!
Cheers,
David.
Hi,
I've just published a modification to support this. If you download the latest distribution, extract sitemap.php and upload it to your site you will now get additional index entries for each merchant that has > 50,000 products. The corresponding individual sitemap pages will then check for the "start" parameter to keep each individual sitemap within the 50,000 limit.
Cheers,
David.