I maintain a couple dozen web sites and thus have spent more time than I wished exploring the different site map generation tools available ... from the Python-based tools Google provides to the one I like the most, GSiteCrawler.

GSiteCrawler by SOFTplus Entwicklungen GmbH, http://johannesmueller.com/gs/

It's free, easy to use, and comprehensive so if you want to create site maps for Google, I recommend it. And other than being a happy user, I have no relationship with the company ... I just remember how frustrating and tedious site map generation was for me.

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I'll give it a try. I had tried some other SiteMap generator, and it crawled everything wrong and spidered outside links ... This leads me to wonder, does having a Google Sitemap really make a difference? Any experiences with it?

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I just downloaded this tool, all 10MB of it, installed it, and fired it up. I will have to say, the tool is pretty slick. Simply put, you add a 'new project', crawl your site, and the cool part is that you then have the ability to manipulate the priority and frequency, as well as add and delete pages all on the fly, and finally, generate/update your sitemap.xml file.

The tool does go the extra mile (if you want to configure it to do so), ftp'ing your sitemap.xml file onto your server, I thought that was a nice touch.

Good find, thanks so much for the post!

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Thanks for the great contribution!

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I've been submitting sitemaps since day one, first by hand, then found several packages for automatically building the xml files.

This one is the best and it's free.

http://enarion.net/google/phpsitemapng

One caveat, read the entire site before use.

Especially this thread from the forum.

http://forum.enarion.net/viewtopic.php?t=14

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