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Add a Site Map in Miva 5.5

Miva Merchant 5.5 can create a site map page which contains all categories and products in the store. This can assist in SEO ranking since search engines will crawl site map pages.

Under SEO Settings, check the Enable Site Map box
Click Update

This process will create a new page in the store with the screen code of SMAP. You can view the page on the front end by calling it like this:

http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_code=XXX&Screen=SMAP

If Short Links is already enabled, you'd use this url:

http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/SMAP.html

You can modify the page template using HTML and CSS to control the overall layout.

Setting the DOCTYPE

The <!DOCTYPE> tag tells the browser which HTML or XHTML specification is being used. It is the very first line in the source code of an HTML page. While not required for a page to be displayed, it provides key information to the browser and should always be used.

By default, the DOCTYPE used by Miva Merchant is set at:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

The "loose" reference is used so that browsers that do not support CSS can still parse HTML content on the page in (hopefully) a decent format.

To modify the DOCTYPE, click your store's link, then the HTML Profile link in the Main screen.

You can learn about this tag and variations you can use at http://www.w3schools.com.

Head Tag Content

Head tags are not just for calling in style sheets and referencing external scripts. They can also include key information used for SEO purposes.

To modify the Head Tags for the store, click your store's link, then the Head Tag Content/CSS link in the Main screen.