Sitemap xml, robots from a newbie in modx

Hi,

I got the login manager for a customer. I have to optimize the site for Google. I never used modx.

-Question 1: I tried on the site to make a sitemap.xml, but it does not work! Is there something wrong in the file robots

# Default modx exclusions
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /assets/cache/
Disallow: /assets/docs/
Disallow: /assets/export/
Disallow: /assets/import/
Disallow: /assets/modules/
Disallow: /assets/plugins/
Disallow: /assets/snippets/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /manager/

# For sitemaps.xml autodiscovery. Uncomment if you have one:
# Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml



Question 2: How to install the the meta tag for Google?

Thanks
Philippe

A great extra for Sitemap creation is GoogleSiteMap
- Install this via the package manager
- Create a new resource. Set its Template to Empty
- Name the resource sitemap. Do not forget to also name its alias as sitemap
- Click on the Settings tab and set the Content Type to xml
- Tick off Rich Text
- Within the Resource's Content section put:

- Save the resource
- When viewing the resource you should now have a sitemap.xml based on your sites structure

In order to add the sitemap.xml to your robots.txt remove the # in front of the line that says:

so that it reads:

also change http://example.com/ to be your domain name.

Not sure what you mean by the Google Meta tag.

Thank you for this first answer.

But there is a mystery!
I cannot create a sitemap.xml
I use for example http://www.sitemap-maker.com/ and the answer I get is: URL cannot be read

Has it something to do with modx or with the provider?

Thanks


Quote from: glynszasz at Sep 13, 2013, 02:19 AM

A great extra for Sitemap creation is GoogleSiteMap
- Install this via the package manager
- Create a new resource. Set its Template to Empty
- Name the resource sitemap. Do not forget to also name its alias as sitemap
- Click on the Settings tab and set the Content Type to xml
- Tick off Rich Text
- Within the Resource's Content section put:

[[!GoogleSiteMap]]

- Save the resource
- When viewing the resource you should now have a sitemap.xml based on your sites structure

In order to add the sitemap.xml to your robots.txt remove the # in front of the line that says:

# Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml

so that it reads:

Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml

also change http://example.com/ to be your domain name.

Not sure what you mean by the Google Meta tag.

Using the steps I outlined above you will not need to use an external sitemap.xml creator such as http://www.sitemap-maker.com/. After following my suggested steps you will have a sitemap.xml automaticaly built within MODX.

Perhaps if you could give the address of your site I may be able to help further.

http://www.urologie-am-bahnhofsplatz.de/

Quote from: glynszasz at Sep 13, 2013, 04:23 AM

Using the steps I outlined above you will not need to use an external sitemap.xml creator such as http://www.sitemap-maker.com/. After following my suggested steps you will have a sitemap.xml automaticaly built within MODX.

Perhaps if you could give the address of your site I may be able to help further.

Hi philingbb,

I think the problem is with your provider:
1) that link doesn't work with http://www.sitemap-maker.com/ or with http://www.xml-sitemaps.com
2) i have a MODX Cloud account and I was able to use http://www.sitemap-maker.com to create a sitemap, so I don't think it's MODX (I'm running a site on 2.2.7-pl)

See if your provider is blocking this. The other thing you can do is to look at your http access file to see if the request from www.sitemap-maker.com is making it to the web server.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Tom

Thank you all of you. I have to check it with my provider.
philingbb