Will sitemap generated in Yoast for a combined wordpress/magento site map entire site ?

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi

For an ecommerce site thats been developed via a combination of wordpress and magento and has yoast installed, will the sitemap (& other yoast features) map (& apply to) the entire site or just wordpress aspects ?

In other words does one need to do anything else to have a full sitemap for a combined magento/wordpress site or will Yoast cover it all ? This link seems to suggest should be fine but seeing if anyone else encountered this and had problems or if straightforward ?

http://fishpig.co.uk/wordpress-integration/docs/plugins.html

cheers

dan

[PaddyDisplays]

I don't know about yoast, but if wordpress and magento have their own site maps, they both can be added to sitemaps under webmaster tools.

You can also check the sitemap that yoast makes, to see if it has both wordpress and magento links in the xml file (pick 2 random urls and seach).

I would just make sure that the xml is being updated when you add new pages to your site.

[Mark_Ginsberg]

I don't believe Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin will cover Magento files. The Wordpress SEO plugin is built into the Wordpress, and pulls the page, post, category, taxonomy, etc. data from Wordpress in order to build the sitemap. The plugin itself creates a sitemap for each page, post type, etc., and is highly configurable. It then uses a sitemap index file to connect everything together.

But since the Wordpress doesn't have the Magento information, since they are separate CMS's with separate databases, the Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin won't build a sitemap file for information in the other CMS, as it has no access to it and no knowledge of it.

You can use other tools to create sitemaps for the site, either through manual crawls or installed software on your server,  but the yoast wordpress plugin won't do it.

Mark

[Dan-Lawrence]

thanks Paddy

[Dan-Lawrence]

thanks Mark !!