Creating sitemaps

[cimmeron]

Hi all - anybody tried this program for making sitemaps?

http://www.xtreeme.com/sitexpert/

Anybody know anything better? I want to use something that can quickly do sitemaps for really big sites.

Input is appreciated. Thanks!

[MadKad]

I dont use that I use SOFTplus GsiteCrawler and I find that very very good, best of all its free and will make you ap page just like this

http://www.mkpitstop.co.uk/sitemap.xml

and you can remove links you dont want and add links also it uses your robot text file etc etc if you havent tryed do so before buying any other trust me lol

EDIT: Link would help lol http://johannesmueller.com/gs/

[BingoBalls]

Originally Posted by MadKad

ts free and will make you ap page just like this

http://www.mkpitstop.co.uk/sitemap.xml

Hey this is exactly what I was looking for - does XML sitemaps work for other search engines such as MSN and Yahoo?

Cheers for the tip Madkad!

[MadKad]

that software will make you a yahoo one as well as they work different, dont know about msn but they will pick up very page you do any how

lol msn would even get what pages are in you file bin if it had the chance as the just index crap lol

but yer that program will do text files the lot it even tells you if you have any bad link, duble content, slow pages and what pages would time out for the SE's infact once I tryed it and it was fre I thought there was something wrog for it to be free lol

[BingoBalls]

Great! Thanks for the great advice

[cimmeron]

Yahoo wants a text list of URLs, one per line, named urllist.txt

Google wants the xml sitemap

MSN doesn't appear to really want anything but a regular old sitemap on your site will at least get the bots thru to all of your pages.

I'm gonna take a look at that one you mentioned, MadKad. I don't mind paying for stuff if it works, which is why I was hoping someone had used that Xpert one

[BingoBalls]

I currently have a html for MSN and XML Google so now I need a thrid for Yahoo ?

[cimmeron]

yea, urllist.txt. There's a little bit about it on the yahoo page. You submit it to the top line, instead of the second one:
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html


edit: the html would work for Yahoo anyway. But this seems to be their 'answer' to google.

[BingoBalls]

OK nice one for the heads up.

I didnt really focus on Yahoo, must start.

[MadKad]

that program will make you a text list one url perline in a text file

[cimmeron]

this one? SOFTplus GsiteCrawler?

[MadKad]

yes that one SOFTplus GsiteCrawler will do it

[cimmeron]

alright, I'm gonna try it

Thanks!

[digiweb]

I use this site to generate my Google sitemap:

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

[MadKad]

Originally Posted by CarolineBogart

I use this site to generate my Google sitemap:

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Nice but "Maximum 500 pages will be indexed in sitemap."

The one I showed the others will do all pages and that will help you better

[MadKad]

this is what my site map looks like I just updated it

http://www.mkpitstop.co.uk/sitemap.xml

[John Scott]

I don't get all this Sitemaps talk. Creating Sitemaps is a waste of time for the most part. You can submit sitemaps to Google until you're blue in the face and it doesn't mean that Google will include those pages in their index.

[digiweb]

Maybe they're changing their tune, based on this tool:

http://google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview

Maybe Britanny really is looking for sexy JohnScott