Monday, September 03rd, 2007 
 Author: Jon B

Another great Sitemap Generator

Are you looking for ways to generate a sitemap for your favorite search engine? At one time, Google had it’s own sitemap format, Yahoo had their own version and everyone else was trying to catch up. Fortunately, a standard was developed for XML Sitemaps which are now accepted by Google, Yahoo and others.

There is still the traditional html sitemap, and we have taken that into consideration when building the sitemap generator; our webmaster tool provides you with the option to generate a XML sitemap or HTML sitemap – how you export (save) the file is up to you.

Creative website owners have been using sitemaps to get their content recognized by search engines for years; these html sitemaps predate Google and XML site maps. The nice thing about this type of sitemap is that it can be read by humans AND search engines.

To create these older style sitemaps, website owners need only use our program to generate an HTML sitemap, upload that file to their server’s root directory (same location as the website’s main page) and place a link to that file in their footer (bottom of the website’s main page)

XML Sitemaps now the standard

A Google Sitemap (XML Sitemap) and the traditional sitemap differ in a number of ways. The XML sitemap is for made for search engines such as Yahoo, Google and MSN and when viewed by a human, it’s not pretty.

The traditional sitemap (HTML Sitemap) is a graphical way to present your website’s layout to humans to further aid in their navigation of your site.

If you want the search engines to see your webpages, a XML sitemap is the way to go. You can a Google sitemap (xml sitemap) and standard sitemap (html) running side by side and it will not negativly impact your site.
Why the Sitemap Generator

Google Sitemaps is a service that allows webmasters to submit an XML map of their site containing information such as change frequency, priority, date created and more. Google suggests a great sitemap program to create the site map, but you must have Python in order for it to run. For further reading on Google’s program, visit Google Sitemaps FAQ.

Free Site Map Builder

This free and easy to use site map builder is fast, efficient and allows you to build sitemaps that can instantly be submitted to Google. The only requirement is a popular browser that supports java, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and others.

Check out this awesome tool at:
http://www.auditmypc.com/xml-sitemap.asp

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