Creating sitemaps

cimmeron · 04-12-2006, 06:28 PM

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 · 04-12-2006, 07:15 PM

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 · 04-12-2006, 07:25 PM

Quote:

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!

gfriedm1 · 05-18-2006, 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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/

i used a different program to make my site map and it looks more like just lines of code. should it look more like the one you have created? i don't care how it looks for humans as i have an html site map. but what about XML. if i am not concerned by looks, should i just keep the one i have now? is one more correct then another?

**stoner3221** · 05-18-2006, 01:23 PM

Anything you can do to help the search engines better crawl your website is always a plus. When you have a very large not easily crawled website like a large directory the sitemap can be an invaluable tool. Matt Cutts has strongly indicated a much more important role for the sitemap team in a recent interview.

MadKad · 04-12-2006, 07:30 PM

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 · 04-12-2006, 07:38 PM

Great! Thanks for the great advice

cimmeron · 04-12-2006, 08:15 PM

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 · 04-12-2006, 08:31 PM

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

NothingButNet · 11-26-2006, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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

Why don’t these companies just standardize a sitemap and make it easier on everyone! Then we wouln’t have to pay for something - or if we do, at least it would be used by the other companies!

cimmeron · 04-12-2006, 08:34 PM

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 · 04-12-2006, 08:47 PM

OK nice one for the heads up.

I didnt really focus on Yahoo, must start.

MadKad · 04-13-2006, 02:45 AM

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

cimmeron · 04-13-2006, 11:01 AM

this one? SOFTplus GsiteCrawler?

MadKad · 04-13-2006, 12:05 PM

yes that one SOFTplus GsiteCrawler will do it

cimmeron · 04-13-2006, 12:34 PM

alright, I'm gonna try it

Thanks!

digiweb · 04-14-2006, 10:16 PM

I use this site to generate my Google sitemap:

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

MadKad · 04-15-2006, 04:06 AM

Quote:

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 · 04-15-2006, 02:25 PM

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

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

John Scott · 04-16-2006, 12:43 AM

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.