Comments on: How to create Google & Yahoo Site Maps – Easily

By: Ria

Ria — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:40:45 +0000

This is a well explained awesome post on sitemaps. Saw this blog while searching for sitemap details. Cant go without commenting on your blog. Really an useful piece of information and a helpful post. Thanks.

By: altax

altax — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:37:56 +0000

By: Ria

Ria — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:40:45 +0000

By: altax

altax — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:37:56 +0000

By: Julia Check

Julia Check — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:47:32 +0000

For large sites ( >10,000 pages) on shared hosting, many sitemap programs exhaust the server memory, which is usually limited to 32MB on each site by default. You can increase the memory limit with your htaccess file, but don’t get your site closed down.

I tried all of the sitemap generators listed above. Most of them failed with large sites. Finally, I settled on GSitemapCrawler. It stores all the URLs in a local database, so it does not exhaust the server memory. It can upload the sitemap as .xml or compressed as .xml.gz

I found GSitemapCrawler to be easy to learn, use, and it handled the larger sites with no problem.

By: Zoltan

Zoltan — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:26:16 +0000

One of the easiest way to generate sitemap is at: http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp address. Just put your domain and the complette sitemap will be done. I have used it for my site : Digital Cameras

By: Session - Bulk Submit 2.0 » Online Marketing Blog

Session - Bulk Submit 2.0 » Online Marketing Blog — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:47:45 +0000

[...] This is also a good time to point out the XML site map post that I made a while back. [...]

By: Sitemaps

Sitemaps — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:54:37 +0000

Virtual Hand-Holding: Aids in Making Sitemaps
In virtual hand-holding, it is an important tip to remember that people visit the site in order to look for some information. Internet surfers are an unforgiving lot. They only visit sites that are useful to them. With thousands of websites out there that offer the same features as your own site, how do you stand out? This is where sitemaps come in.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:08:33 +0000

I’ve just interviewed Google’s Sitemaps team:
http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=135
They provide a lot of information on Sitemaps, and finally give the conclusive answer to the “404 vs. 410″ debate.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:26:35 +0000

Great post, Thomas! I will try xml-sitemaps right away. Thanks for the links.

By: Thomas McMahon

Thomas McMahon — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:45:56 +0000

Thanks for the MSN tip. I didn’t realize they accepted submissions via XML.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:35:05 +0000

GSiteCrawler is a great tool, it creates URL lists for Yahoo too BTW. Others generate even HTML site maps and RSS site feeds.

To determine what tool is the best to create the site maps and mass submission feeds, one should first ask for what type of site and for what type of update frequency the tool should support what business process.

For example a blog or a forum should implement a plug-in updating the sitemaps on every content change. A huge dynamic site probably needs an individual solution, generating sitemaps from the database(s). For all kind of dynamic sites you cannot make use of (most of) the tools listed on Google’s links page, because they produce static sitemaps, that is you need to rerun the generator frequently to cover your updates, that’s a PITA.

However, 7 months after the launch there are tools and design patterns out there which should fit any site’s needs. Just digg a little deeper

BTW you should try to submit your XML sitemap to MSN too. They don’t officially support the sitemaps protocol, but their spider eats those submissions and crawls URLs harvested from Google XML Sitemaps:
http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=166&page=123

By: Thomas McMahon

Thomas McMahon — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:40:56 +0000

Glad to help Mary.

By: Mary Stevens

Mary Stevens — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:32:39 +0000

I have just found your blog today…(referred by a friend) and am going to be studying the huge amount of content that you have here! Thanks for the effort. We are just about to launch a new site…and have been fighting with the site map software that we have…so I was happy to see this information.

Regards,

Mary Stevens

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Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:08:15 +0000

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By: Thomas McMahon

Thomas McMahon — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:27:39 +0000

I’ll be testing out GSite Crawler more in the future as it seems like the best downloadable option for the PC. But, for connivence on my iMac, I like the online options.

By: Keith P. Stieneke

Keith P. Stieneke — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:19:02 +0000

I have tried G Site Crawler and an online service whose name escaped me. Of the two I found G Site Crawler to be the best.

By: EGM

EGM — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:44:37 +0000

I have been experimenting with the GSite Crawler and am very impressed. It takes a little tinker with to get the options right…especially if you have a site with a lot of URL parameters. And there is no predefined page limit (500 pages is too limiting for my current assignment).

It also creates the XML and GZIP versions for export along with a lot of other good data including error reports, stats, exportable URL lists, download stats (speed and size) and much more.

It’s free too so you can’t really beat that. Plus, the developer is very good at providing support through a public forum. I’d recommend it for anyone who is interested.

EGM

By: xml-sitemaps.com

xml-sitemaps.com — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:57:35 +0000

Great post and thanks for the recommendation. We do have a php script available which you run on your own server which will add all pages of your site to the sitemaps. A demo version is online at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/generator-demo/

Another usual feature on this is if you have any links to 404 pages on your site it will tell you which pages they are on and what the links are.

By: jh

jh — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:30:03 +0000

Thomas…

thank you very much for this post… I am going to try out xml sitemaps right now.

Greetings from Germany