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Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By : Richard Carter
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook

By: Richard Carter

Overview of this book

<p>Get to grips with Drupal Commerce, the new ecommerce framework based on the Drupal CMS , one of the most popular and powerful open source content management systems available.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" takes you through the installation, configuration, and customisation of your Drupal Commerce store. With clear, practical recipes with plenty of screenshots and tips this book will help you build attractive and profitable eCommerce sites.<br /><br />This book starts by showing you how to install and configure your Drupal Commerce store. Once your shop is up and running, you’ll then learn how to customise and optimise it to make it stand out and display your products better.<br /><br />Going further into customisation, you will learn to add custom product types before creating a stylish new Drupal theme for your store. Packed with tips, this book will also help guide you through common problems, as well as optimising and managing your store on a day to day basis.<br /><br />"Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook" will guide you through everything you need to know to get your online store up and running and selling your products, with easy step-by-step guides and screenshots to help walk you through everything.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an XML sitemap for your Drupal Commerce store


Part of making your Drupal Commerce store search engine friendly is making your content easy to find for search engines, and one good way to do this is to generate an XML sitemap of your website's pages, which tells search engine the following:

  • The address of every page that you would like them to consider including.

  • The relative importance of each page in your website compared to other pages in your website. Your homepage may be more important than your terms and conditions page, for example.

  • The frequency with which each page on your website is updated.

Getting started

Firstly, you may find it useful to create a View in your Drupal Commerce store that lists all products in your store), as online XML sitemap generators work based upon the links they find between pages on your website. To create a View that lists all products in your Drupal Commerce store, see http://drupal.org/node/863852. Next, find an online XML sitemap generator such...