Spree Sitemap

Spree Sitemap is a sitemap generator based on the sitemap_generator gem. It adheres to the Sitemap 0.9 protocol specification.

Notifies search engine of new sitemaps (Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing)
Supports large huge product catalogs
Adheres to 0.9 Sitemap protocol specification
Compresses sitemaps with gzip
Provides basic sitemap of a Spree site (products, taxons, login page, signup page)
Easily add additional sitemaps for pages you add to your spree site
Supports Amazon S3 and other hosting services
Thin wrapper over battle tested sitemap generator

Check out the README for the sitemap_generator.

Installation

gem 'spree_sitemap', github: 'spree-contrib/spree_sitemap', branch: 'master'

bundle install

run the installer, it will create a config/sitemap.rb file with some sane defaults

rails g spree_sitemap:install

echo "public/sitemap*" >> .gitignore

setup a daily cron job to regenrate your sitemap via the rake sitemap:refresh task. If you use the Whenever gem, add this to your config/schedule.rb

every 1.day, at: '5:00 am' do
  rake '-s sitemap:refresh'
end

make sure crawlers can find the sitemap, by adding the following line to your public/robots.txt with your correct domain name

echo "Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.gz" >> public/robots.txt

Thanks

Donations

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If you upgrade from early versions of spree_sitemap you need to change your sitemaps from:

SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.add_links do
  # ...
end

to this:

SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.create do
  # ...
end

See corresponding guidelines