With existing
VPCart Google Site Map feature, you can generate a sitemap file and submit the sitemap URL to Google to allow Google to crawl your site's information.
This existing feature will need merchant to frequently generate sitemap from admin to make sure the sitemap file is always up-to-date with any latest products / categories / content / blogs / news.
You may want an automatic way to generate this sitemap and we have a way to do this by using Plesk scheduled task.
Please follow the below steps:
1) Download your file shopgooglesitemapscreate.asp located in your admin folder.
2) Once downloaded in your local, please rename the file to a new file eg shopgooglesitemapscreate_pleskdaily.asp
3) Open the new file shopgooglesitemapscreate_pleskdaily.asp using notepad or text editor.
4) Locate this code (around line 17):
ShopCheckAdmin "shopgooglesitemapscreate.asp"
5) Please comment it by adding ' in front of the code eg:
'ShopCheckAdmin "shopgooglesitemapscreate.asp"
adminpageheader
7) Please comment it by adding ' in front of the code eg:'adminpageheader
8) Locate this code (around line 64):adminpagetrailer
9) Please comment it by adding ' in front of the code eg:'adminpagetrailer
10) Save the file and upload this new file shopgooglesitemapscreate_pleskdaily.asp to admin folder.