We are using the Miva built in sitemap generator. This updates the <lastmod> date on all products in the sitemap with the date the sitemap is generated. ChatGPT is telling me this is a bad idea because the search engines realize that the <lastmod> date is not real. Chat suggests creating the sitemap external to Miva using the Miva generated sitemap as input and performing a hash comparison of each product's page in the sitemap to a stored version of the page from the last sitemap creation. Chat says doing this will provide an accurate <lastmod> date. Is anyone doing something like this and is it worth considering? Is <lastmod> date actually important?
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Last edited by wajake41; 07-07-26, 07:00 PM.Larry
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New approach: Use Miva JSON API in the php program to pull last update date for the product on Product table for every product in the Miva sitemap, replacing <lastmod> with that date. Create new sitemap with results. It would be ideal of when the custom product fields are updated, that the Product table last update date be updated too.Last edited by wajake41; 07-08-26, 01:55 AM.Larry
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