Google Sitemap is a must have for most stores - greatly helps to get better Search Engine Rankings and therefore increase sales of your X-Cart-based online store.

See Success Stories how people succeed by using Google Sitemaps.

• Goal: Increase visibility of site
• Goal: Drive online traffic, clicks and sales
• Goal: Quickly index changing content

  "Sitemaps helps both new and existing sites improve their Google presence . It can help new sites with few links get more extensive crawls when Googlebot visits, and large sites with PageRank should see deeper crawls and speedier page discovery by showing Googlebot the layout of their site."
  SEO Chat – April 5, 2006

  "Google Sitemaps is a program that gives you the opportunity to present your site’s pages to Google in XML or text. Google will then come by and spider the pages, getting you indexed faster
  Internet Search Engine Database

  Google has launched an experiment designed to speed the flow of Web site information to the search giant's index.
  CNet News.com

  Interesting must-read articles:

• What is a Google Sitemap file and why should I have one?
• SEO with Google Sitemaps
• Google Sitemaps Wants Your URLs
• Google Sitemaps provides better, fresher crawls of Web pages
• Google Sitemaps Review

Live Example(s):

• http://tommyvideo.net/sitemap.php
• http://enciris.com/sitemap.php
• http://zimpler.com/sitemap.php
• http://getintosports.com/sitemap.php

Technical Requirements for x-Cart Google SiteMap:

• X-Cart 4.0, X-Cart 4.1, X-Cart 4.2
• Zend Optimizer 2.6+ or ionCube Loader (files are encrypted)
• Several other minor requirements
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