Aimy Sitemap V31.0 Component Free Download

With Aimy Sitemap you can easily generate an XML and HTML sitemap of your website.

Improve your SEO and website usability with this highly customizable and user-friendly sitemap generator for Joomla! 3 and 4. Support for any third party extension given - no extra plugins necessary.

A broken link checker for on-page links and images is included in the Pro version.

Benefits of this Crawler-based Sitemap for Joomla!
The Aimy Sitemap generator comes with its own dependency-free crawler that respects robot restrictions and visits all allowed pages of your website.

Benefits of this approach are:

the sitemap can be generated for any third-party component out of the box. There is no extra support necessary for VirtueMart, Hikashop, K2, SobiPro,...
content that belongs to your website but is not handled or generated by Joomla! can be indexed and added to your sitemap as well.
different content types (as .doc, .pdf,...) can be added to the sitemap.
the crawler detects broken links on your website.
With an additional, detailed report of the link checker in the PRO version you can easily find and fix broken links on your website.

However, crawling your Joomla! website may — depending on the size of your website — take some time. Although larger websites are supported, we recommend using this sitemap extension on small to medium websites with a couple of hundred pages only.

Documentation:

Introduction
The Joomla! component Aimy Sitemap generates an XML sitemap of your website for search engines. You may generate an HTML sitemap for your visitors as well.

You can customize the sitemap with different options and notify search engines about changes to your sitemap directly from the Joomla! backend.

Aimy Sitemap generator includes a crawler that visits every page of your website, analyzes its content and queues its URL for inclusion in your sitemap.

This manual guides you through all steps necessary to install, configure and use the extension to enrich your website and increase your SEO results.

Technical Requirements to Use Aimy Sitemap Generator
Aimy Sitemap has no dependencies besides those of Joomla!, neither cURL nor url-fopen are required.

Aimy Sitemap supports MySQL and, in the PRO version, PostgreSQL databases and requires PHP version 5.3.10 or higher (like Joomla! 3 itself).

In order to crawl HTTPS websites, your PHP installation has to support SSL.

To automatically crawl your Joomla! website periodically, a system service like cron or Task Scheduler is required. Most hosters provide an interface to such services as well.

Writing an additional, compressed XML sitemap file (sitemap.xml.gz) requires your PHP installation to support Zlib compression, which is usually enabled by default.

Installing the Sitemap Extension
The installation of the sitemap extension follows the common Joomla! procedures.

In case you are not familiar with these procedures proceed as follows:

Download the extension's ZIP archive
Log into your Joomla! backend as "Super User"
From the menu, choose "Extensions" → "Manage" → "Install"
Click on the "Or browse for file" button and select the ZIP archive
The extension's archive will be uploaded and installed afterwards.

For further information, please have a look at the Joomla! documentation "Installing an Extension".

Workflow
The common workflow for generating a sitemap is as follows:

Configure Aimy Sitemap
Edit your robots.txt file (optional)
Crawl your Joomla! website
Fix broken links found on your Joomla! website (optional)
View and customize the index of your sitemap
Write the sitemap to your webspace
Notify search engines (optional)
Whenever you want to update your sitemap repeat steps 3 to 7.

If you use Aimy Sitemap PRO you may update your sitemap automatically with Periodic Crawls, explained later on in this manual.

Configuring the Sitemap Extension
After a fresh installation, click on the "Go to dashboard" button on the installation report page.

At any time, you can reach Aimy Sitemap's configuration using the "Options" button available on Aimy Sitemap's dashboard or the "Options" button in the right corner of each view's toolbar.

Aimy Sitemap: Preferences
You can customize the sitemap itself, the crawler, the notification of search engines and access permissions in a couple of ways. Let's have a look at the different tabs.