Smart SEO Mode uses a logarithmic formula based on actual sales data to make your sitemap tell search engines which products matter most \u2014 instead of assigning the same priority to everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The formula calculates an importance score between 0.7 and 1.0<\/strong> for each product:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The formula uses a logarithmic scale<\/strong>, so the difference between 1 and 10 sales matters more than the difference between 100 and 110. This ensures both new products and mid-tier products get fair representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This same score is used as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both outputs always agree on product importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udca1 Recommendation:<\/strong> Enable Smart SEO Mode for any store with more than 50 products. It ensures your best-performing products are crawled first, improving how quickly new bestsellers get indexed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Without a cache, every sitemap request regenerates the XML by querying the database. For stores with thousands of products, this is slow and resource-intensive. The file cache writes generated XML\/JSON to disk and serves subsequent requests directly from disk \u2014 zero database queries<\/strong> on cache hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cache is automatically purged whenever you save settings. You can also manually purge at any time using:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both buttons display the number of files deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cache system sends proper Some OpenCart stores have product or category records with corrupt last-modified dates (e.g., The extension detects these on the settings page and shows a warning. Use the Fix Incorrect Dates<\/strong> button in the Tools tab<\/strong> to automatically correct them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":245,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-14716","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nSales Volume<\/th> Score<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Zero sales (new product)<\/td> 0.7<\/strong> \u2014 never penalised for being new<\/td><\/tr> ~1% of store’s max sales<\/td> ~0.8<\/td><\/tr> ~10% of store’s max sales<\/td> ~0.9<\/td><\/tr> Top seller (100% of max)<\/td> 1.0<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n \n
<priority><\/code> value in your XML sitemap<\/li>\n\n\n\nimportance_score<\/code> field in the AI JSON feed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nWhen to Enable Smart SEO Mode<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sitemap Cache Settings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Setting<\/th> Default<\/th> Description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Enable Static File Cache<\/strong><\/td> Off<\/td> When enabled, sitemap XML files are stored in system\/storage\/cache\/hbseo_sitemap\/<\/code>. Highly recommended for production.<\/td><\/tr>Cache Lifetime (seconds)<\/strong><\/td> 3600<\/td> How long a cached file is considered fresh. 3600 = 1 hour. Increase to 86400 (24 hours) for stores with infrequent updates. Minimum: 60.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n AI Feed Cache Settings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Setting<\/th> Default<\/th> Description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Enable AI Feed File Cache<\/strong><\/td> Off<\/td> When enabled, AI JSON feed files are stored in system\/storage\/cache\/hbseo_ai_feed\/<\/code>. Recommended when AI feed is enabled.<\/td><\/tr>AI Feed Cache Lifetime (seconds)<\/strong><\/td> 3600<\/td> How long a cached AI feed JSON file is considered fresh. Minimum: 60.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Cache Invalidation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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ETag<\/code>, Last-Modified<\/code>, and Cache-Control<\/code> headers and supports 304 Not Modified<\/code> responses. Well-behaved crawlers that send If-None-Match<\/code> or If-Modified-Since<\/code> headers receive a 304 response with no body \u2014 saving bandwidth on both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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0000-00-00 00:00:00<\/code>). These cause problems in XML sitemaps and can trigger Google Search Console warnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n