Sitemaps help search engines like Google and Yahoo find your product pages. This is not to be confused with the Google base feed which also describes your products. The difference is that sitemaps simply lists URLs and can be sent to all the major search engines while the Google feed list many product details and is designed specifically for Google and RedMystic. In both cases, the RedMystic core component will notify RedMystic, Google base and all major search engines that they should retrieve the latest product and sitemap feeds. This all occurs automatically and hands free.

RedMystic supports two types of sitemaps. The first is designed for humans while the second is meant for search engines.

Front End sitemap:

-- By setting a new Joomla menu and selecting RedMystic -> Sitemap,  a sitemap menu will be created that will list all categories and products.

-- Renders on the fly when the menu item is clicked

Back End sitemap:

-- This type of sitemap is intended purely for search engines.

-- Follows an industry standard protocol. Read More

-- Supports virtually an unlimited number of products

-- Compresses sitemaps to reduce bandwidth/diskspace footprint

-- Automatically notify Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask. Can be individually enabled/disabled.

-- Uses parent/child structure so you only need to know the root sitemap

-- If for some reason you wish to see the root sitemap you can browser your server with this url:  http://yourdomain.com//index.php?option=com_redmystic&view=sitemap&layout=raw&format=raw&sitemap=sitemap.xml

-------- Within the root sitemap will be 1-n child sitemaps which contain your actual product listings. The urls for the child sitemaps will change so it's important that if you submit sitemaps to other sites that you use the root sitemap. The root sitemap will not change.

--------  The actual sitemap files are located here: /components/sitemaps

             However because of the sitemap standard protocol you do not want to submit sitemaps directly to the files. You will essential violate the standard. Instead use the root sitemap listed above.