how to remove footer links Site Map, Seach Terms and Advanced search and Contact Us in magento

To remove or Edit magento Footer links Site Map, Search Terms, Advanced Search and Contact us is very simple,By default your Magento 1.7.0.2 store will have various links such as Site Map, Seach Terms and Advanced search and Contact Us.You can remove these links from the footer in Magento follow these steps

To remove Site Map on footer

C:\xampp\htdocs\onlinesales\app\design\frontend\base\default\layout (localhost address)

open catalog.xml (line no:62(dreamweaver))
In catalog.xml remove/comment out the footer_links section in the default

Before

<reference name="footer_links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="catalog"

ifconfig="catalog/seo/site_map"><label>Site Map</label><url helper="catalog/map/getCategoryUrl"

/><title>Site Map</title></action>
</reference>

After changes(just comment that lines)

<!--<reference name="footer_links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="catalog"

ifconfig="catalog/seo/site_map"><label>Site Map</label><url helper="catalog/map/getCategoryUrl"

/><title>Site Map</title></action>
</reference> -->

To remove Search Terms and Advanced Search in footer

C:\xampp\htdocs\onlinesales\app\design\frontend\base\default\layout (localhost address)

open catalogsearch.xml (line no:35(dreamweaver)

In catalogsearch.xml remove/comment out the footer_links section in the default

Before

<reference name="footer_links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="catalogsearch"

ifconfig="catalog/seo/search_terms">
<label>Search Terms</label>
<url helper="catalogsearch/getSearchTermUrl" />
<title>Search Terms</title>
</action>
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="catalogsearch">
<label>Advanced Search</label>
<url helper="catalogsearch/getAdvancedSearchUrl" />
<title>Advanced Search</title>
</action>
</reference>

After changes(just comment that lines)

<!--<reference name="footer_links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="catalogsearch"

ifconfig="catalog/seo/search_terms">
<label>Search Terms</label>
<url helper="catalogsearch/getSearchTermUrl" />
<title>Search Terms</title>
</action>
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="catalogsearch">
<label>Advanced Search</label>
<url helper="catalogsearch/getAdvancedSearchUrl" />
<title>Advanced Search</title>
</action>
</reference>-->

To remove Contact us in footer

C:\xampp\htdocs\onlinesales\app\design\frontend\base\default\layout (localhost address)

open contacts.xml (line no:30 (dreamweaver))
before

<reference name="footer_links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="contacts"

ifconfig="contacts/contacts/enabled"><label>Contact Us</label><url>contacts</url><title>Contact

Us</title><prepare>true</prepare></action>
</reference>

after changes (just comment that lines)

<!--<reference name="footer_links">
<action method="addLink" translate="label title" module="contacts"

ifconfig="contacts/contacts/enabled"><label>Contact Us</label><url>contacts</url><title>Contact

Us</title><prepare>true</prepare></action>
</reference> -->

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