Download Your Free Sitemap Generator

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Sitemaps are very important if you want all of the pages on your website to be indexed by the search engines. They are particularly important if you have a large website. Small sites with five or six pages don’t need them most of the time. But sites larger than 25 pages should have a sitemap as part of your search engine optimization strategy.



Google
has recently introduced its Google Sitemap Generator. While I haven’t tested the tool, I can’t imagine that Google would roll out a product of this nature without it being suitable enough to handle the task. After all, Google relies heavily on sitemaps for all kinds of websites. Its own reputation is at stake.

The sitemap generator is in beta. That means there may be some bugs, but it is open source so you can tweak to it meet your specific needs. Keep in mind that Google supports sitemap formats that other search engines do not support, but the primary file types (XML, TXT, and HTML) are supported by all the search engines that support sitemaps so you can submit your generated sitemaps to all of the search engines. This looks like a tool worth having.

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1 Comment

Comment by Hashe Computer Solutions

Made Friday, 20 of February , 2009 at 12:08 am

Thanks for sharing… Sitemap.xml generator tool.
There are many sitemap generator tools available at internet for free of cost. Anyway, I will be try this tool next time.

Thanks again!

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