Google launches its own Sitemap Generator (Beta)!

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:56:02 +0000

Open source XML sitemap generator tool announced by Google. Google had built its own sitemap generator with more controls and its search engine friendly. It performs the same thing as the some other software’s do that are available in the market, the only difference is that it’s free and Google has developed it.

Google described it as:

Google Sitemap Generator is a tool installed on your web server to generate the Sitemaps automatically. Unlike many other third party Sitemap generation tools, Google Sitemap Generator takes a different approach: it will monitor your web server traffic, and detect updates to your website automatically.

According to me everyone needs a sitemap generating tool, and since it is developed by Google I will definitely try it. I will try it and post my feedback later.

You can download its copy from here

How to create a Google Site Map

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:22:31 +0000

Officially announced on June 6th, 2005 at Google’e Blog, Google Site Map allows you to submit a listing of all your urls for Google to crawl.

There have been many questions concerning the procedure of creating a Google Site Map. Below is the non-Python way of creating one. (Note: Google has further documentation at their site)

First, create a file named sitemap.xml

Use the following code in any HTML editor:

Here’s a breakdown of those properties:

lastmod -

This is the date the document was last modified and uses the following formats:

dd.mm.yyyy

dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm

dd/mm/yyyy

dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm

changefreq -

Tells Google Sitemaps the frequently that content of a particular URL will change.

Your options are “always”, “hourly”, “daily”, “weekly”, “monthly”, “yearly” or “never”.

The value “always” should be used to describe documents that change each time they are accessed. The value “never” should be used to describe archived URLs.

priority -

The priority of a particular URL relative to other pages on your site.
You may select between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 identifies the lowest priority page(s) on your website and 1.0 identifies the highest priority page(s) on your website.

Add as many pages as there are in your website.

Google Sitemap supports up to 50,000 pages per XML file.

Once you’ve completed all of those steps, you’ll need to submit your site map page.

Submit to: (requires gmail account)

https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

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Google launches its own Sitemap Generator (Beta)!

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