Hi,
This is probably something simple, but I just want to understand how sitemapseo works.
I read some forum threads regarding sitemaps and found that running sitemapseo creates a sitemap. I ran this and found out that none of my products were in the sitemap. In reading the forum threads I found that I needed to turn on commonsettings.sitemapincludeproducts. I did this and now I have a sitemap of all 4000+ products.
Now for the questions...
1) did sitemapseo create a sitemap file?
2) I read some where on the 'net that I needed to include a link to the sitemap file in my robots.txt but I have not seen anything like that here in the forum. How does Google, Bing and the other search engines know where the sitemap is?
Could someone clear up the sitemap creation and how the search engines read my sitemap? I am hoping this is all automated some how and that I do not need to upload a sitemap file, unless that is the best way.
Thanks,
Rhek