XML Sitemap Generator - What a Great (Free) Tool!
Someday soon this blog will bifurcate into a techie blog and a customer- and prospective customer-facing blog. Till then, here's a techie entry.
Thanks to Robbin Steif and her LunaMetrics Blog for this hot tip. Google Sitemaps is a service from Google that allows anyone to create a specially formatted sitemap file containing all the URLs in a Web site. Google crawlers use the file to index the site. Yahoo! offers a similar service as part of their "Submit Your Site for Free" submission process.
These services are particularly useful for sites with dynamically generated pages.
But how do I create such a file? And who has the time, you ask? Well, (here's the tip) that's where the very clever crew at xml-sitemaps.com come in with their free XML Sitemap Generator.
I tried a few other online sitemap generating tools before using this one, and it pretty much blows the others away. Compare the simplicity and ease of use of the xml-sitemaps.com Generator to the free Google Sitemap Generator and its lengthy page of instructions. Does this mean Google will be buying xml-sitemaps.com soon?
The xml-sitemaps.com site includes all the instructions you need to be able to create and upload a sitemap for Google and for Yahoo! in a matter of minutes. So check it out.
Thanks to Robbin Steif and her LunaMetrics Blog for this hot tip. Google Sitemaps is a service from Google that allows anyone to create a specially formatted sitemap file containing all the URLs in a Web site. Google crawlers use the file to index the site. Yahoo! offers a similar service as part of their "Submit Your Site for Free" submission process.
These services are particularly useful for sites with dynamically generated pages.
But how do I create such a file? And who has the time, you ask? Well, (here's the tip) that's where the very clever crew at xml-sitemaps.com come in with their free XML Sitemap Generator.
I tried a few other online sitemap generating tools before using this one, and it pretty much blows the others away. Compare the simplicity and ease of use of the xml-sitemaps.com Generator to the free Google Sitemap Generator and its lengthy page of instructions. Does this mean Google will be buying xml-sitemaps.com soon?
The xml-sitemaps.com site includes all the instructions you need to be able to create and upload a sitemap for Google and for Yahoo! in a matter of minutes. So check it out.
posted by Mark McLaren at
11:21 PM
3 Comments:
So far so good. I just set it up and uploaded the sitemap.xml file. My previous attempts using generators failed with cryptic errors from Google that I didn't want to bother trying to resolve.
We'll see how this one works! Thanks for the tip...
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Anonymous, at 12:01 PM
Great. Do let me know. I understand from Robbin Steif at LunaMetrics that XML Sitemap Generator will index fairly large sites without trouble.
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Mark McLaren, at 2:01 PM
Mark - XML Sitemap Generator worked like a charm. Google accepted it without error and it's now running on my site. Thanks for the tip...
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