XML Sitemaps
How to Submit a Sitemap to Yahoo!
Learn how easy it is to submit an XML sitemap to Yahoo! Once you've created an XML sitemap, you want to make sure that the search engines see it and index your site.
How to Submit a Sitemap to Google
Learn how easy it is to submit an XML sitemap to Google. Once you've created an XML sitemap, you want to make sure that the search engines see it and index your site.
How to Submit a Sitemap to Bing
Learn how easy it is to submit an XML sitemap to Bing. Once you've created an XML sitemap, you want to make sure that the search engines see it and index your site.
Google XML Sitemaps - How are they Different from Other XML Sitemaps?
A Google XML sitemap is another name for the XML sitemaps specification agreed upon by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. If you use a Google XML sitemap on your website, you can submit your sitemap to those three search engines as well as others and have them spider your site using the sitemap.
What is a Sitemap?
What is an XML sitemap and why should I use them on my site? XML sitemaps are a new schema and protocol accepted by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to help assist search engines. Setting up a sitemap for your Web site allows search engines to more accurately review the files on your site, including their locations and relative importance to each other.
XML Sitemaps Generator - from XML-Sitemaps.com
This generator will create a sitemap of the first 500 pages spidered on your site. It generates the map from your homepage. It even estimates how long it will take to finish.
Google Sitemap Generator - from Audit My PC
This is a Java applet that provides a lot of information about your site. It will generate both XML and HTML sitemaps. WARNING: when I tried it it crashed my browser. So use at your own risk.
Google XML Sitemaps Generator for WordPress
If you run a WordPress blog, this plugin will create a sitemap from your blog, and update it when you update your blog. It even generates a priority on your posts, based on the number of comments they have received.
Google Sitemaps Generator - from Sitemap Doc
The interspersed text advertising on this site makes it hard to read, but what it offers is a sitemap generator that will spider your site and create a sitemap of the first 500 pages. It will also create an HTML sitemap and RSS file if you want one.
Automapit.com
Autommapit.com will create a sitemap in 6 different formats for up to 500 pages for free. If you pay $10 you can have your sitemaps generated more frequently and include up to 50,000 links per map. The updates are $1 per update.
A1 Sitemap Generator
This is an offline sitemap generator for Windows. It costs $49 with a 30-day free trial. It will generate up to 7 different types of sitemaps, including HTML and RSS.
phpSitemapNG
This PHP script you install on your server and it generates the sitemap for you. You need to be able to install PHP scripts to use this sitemap generator.
Drupal XML Sitemap Generator Plugin
If you run a Drupal website, this plugin will build an XML sitemap for you.