How to build website sitemap (sitemap.xml) in
Joomla
A joomla installation I'm managing needed to have created a
sitemap.xml
From a SEO perspective
sitemap.xml and
sitemap.xml.gz
are absolutely necessary for a website to be well indexed in
google.
After some investigation I've found out a perfect program that
makes generation of
sitemap.xml in joomla a piece of
cake.
All necessary to be done for the sitemap.xml to be created comes to
download
and install of JCrawler
What makes JCrawler even better is that it's open source
program.
To install Jcrawler go in the joomla administrator panel:
Extensiosn -> Install/Uninstall
You will see the Install from URL on the bottom, there place the
link to the
com_jcrawler.zip installation archive, for
instance you can place the link of the downloaded copy of
com_jcrawler.zip I've mirrored on pc-freak.net,by placing
http://pc-freak.net/files/com_jcrawler.zip
The installation will be done in a few seconds and you will
hopefully be greated with a
Installation Success
message.
Last thing to do in order to have the
sitemap.xml in your
joomla based website generated is to navigate to:
Content -> JCrawler
There a screen will appear where you can customize certain things
related to the sitemap.xml generation, I myself used the default
options and continued straight to the Save and Generate
button.
That's all now your joomla website will be equipped with
sitemap.xml, enjoy!