XML Sitemaps is a long established sitemap software publisher. This is a versatile and robust server based PHP sitemap generator, it produces XML, HTML and text sitemaps. As it is server based it can easily be automated through the use of a cron process. It is unique in that it conforms perfectly to the sitemap protocol established by Google, MSN and Yahoo, including options to create multiple sitemaps for sites larger than 50,000 pages as well as Gzip compression and Google ping. It also includes the ability to obey a robots.txt file.
XML-Sitemaps.com software is a php script that needs to be installed on the same server as your website. Your hosting service will need to support PHP for the program to run, and you will need some basic knowledge of how to install and run PHP scripts.
- Runs as an online form on your website.
- Generates XML, RSS, HTML and Text sitemaps. XML sitemaps are produced in accordance with the standard protocol in use by Google, Yahoo and MSN.
- Follows robots.txt file for including/excluding files/folders, as well as allowing you to set parameters separately.
- Manual and/or automatic operation.
- Broken link reporting.
The software is installed as a php script on your webhost. Instructions are provided for the installation, but if you are not capapbel of doing this yourself then an installation service is avalaible. Once installed a configuration screen runs through the various features such as what files/folders to index etc etc. The options are quite extensive. Instructions are provided and there is a forum full of helpful hints available as well.
There is a comprehensive help file as well as tutorials
Even though this product is a php script, the installation and setup is quite trivial, and if you get stuck the installation fee for XML-Sitemap.com to install for you is only $10.00.
The support for this product is excellent, a detailed FAQ is included as well as Tutorials and an active forum is run by the developers.
This software is the best one we've reviewed for large websites, it will create multiple sitemaps for sites over 50,000 pages (in accordance with the sitemap protocol), in addition it will compress the files (Gzip) and then alert Google that your new sitemap(s) are available
A complete list of features and a side-by-side comaprison are available on the Sitemap Generator Software Review Homepage
