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Sitemap Generator Software
One of the most important parts of SEO work is having a good, up-to-date sitemap that you can send to search engines on a regular basis. I have been using XML-Sitemaps.com‘s unlimited XML, Text, HTML sitemap generator for about a year now. It is a very sturdy program that just runs through my cron jobs nightly without any issues at all, ever. Once you set up the configuration on how you want your sitemap, the program just runs flawlessly, spitting out nicely formatted sitemaps.
Here is the brief summary of its features straight from their website*:
1. It generates any kind of sitemap you require: XML, Text, HTML site maps.
2. It is developed in PHP languages and works with most web-server’s configurations
3. Fast and easy installation onto the same host that should be crawled
4. Flexible configuration that allows you to set any sitemap parameters and crawler settings
5. 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.
6. “robots.txt” exclusion protocol is supported
7. GZip compression supported (optional)
8. User-friendly progress indication for sitemap generation in manual mode
9. Allows to setup the cron job to create sitemaps without a user interaction
10. Informs (ping) Google automatically when sitemap generation is complete
11. Website structure analysis feature represents the tree-like layout of your pages distribution within folders
12. 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.
13. 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.
The unlimited generator is only $19.99 and can be used on all of your sites, no limitations on how many times you can install it. The program runs a PHP script right on your web server where you host your site.
They offer a free online sitemap generator for those that may just want to create one for their own personal site. The free online sitemap generator will only index 500 pages.
There is an online demo of the configuration page which can be found here.
I highly recommend this product.
*information courtesy of XML-Sitemaps.com
