XML Sitemap Generator
One of the best tools I have found for creating a site map for search engine submitting is XML Sitemap’s Free Online Sitemap Generator
The sitemap generated with XML-Sitemap’s Generator tool is compatible for submission with all the leading search engines, such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, ASK.com, Live Search and also supports Moreover.com. (To see our article on how to submit your site to search engines click here).
If your website is more than 500 pages, then for a modest fee of $19.99 the Unlimited Version of Sitemap Generator will generate an xml spreadsheet list of your entire websites categories and page listings.
The benefits for getting the unlimited version is that it gets installed onto your website.
Here is the brief summary of its features:
- It generates any kind of sitemap you require: XML, Text, HTML site maps.
- It is developed in PHP languages and works with most web-server’s configurations
- Fast and easy installation onto the same host that should be crawled
- Flexible configuration that allows you to set any sitemap parameters and crawler settings
- Support of LARGE websites, dividing the sitemap on the parts per 50,000 URLs each and Sitemap Index file according to the Google sitemap protocol.
- “robots.txt” exclusion protocol is supported
- GZip compression supported (optional)
- User-friendly progress indication for sitemap generation in manual mode
- Allows to setup the cron job to create sitemaps without a user interaction
- Informs (ping) Google automatically when sitemap generation is complete
- Website structure analysis feature represents the tree-like layout of your pages distribution within folders
- The script collects all generated sitemaps details and provides the log changes in it, including the number (and the lists) of added and removed pages.
- The broken links are detected by the application and reported on the special page, providing also the URLs pages that refer to these bad links.
There are more features since the initial release…such as more support for search engines, search engine auto pinging, Title Tag inclusion…. View the change log for updates since release.
If your not very computer savy or can’t afford the time, for an extra $10.00, XML Sitemap will do your installation. Have your websites ftp login information ready to give them at time of Purchase.
We think XML Sitemap’s Unlimited Sitemap Generator is a “must have” tool for all web publishers, online advertisers..or even small business owners just wanting to see a printed list of their website pages & listings.
You can purchase the Unlimited Sitemap Generator for $19.99 here.
Update Sept 2008: Although we like the free xml sitemap generator, one thing that we found lacking was that the free online version scans up to 500 pages. We are happy to let you know that we found another sitemap generator that doesn’t have this limitation, and much much more. It’s called PHPSitemapNG http://enarion.net/google/
