Im looking for decent xml sitemap generator software or online tool i can use, free or paid.. any suggestions?
Can someone tell me why exactly is a sitemap important to a website? Please don't mind my question because i'm pretty new to SEO.
Weknowtheworld, a sitemap allows the search engine spiders to find all of your pages. If you register with Google and notify them of changes you shouldn't have problems getting all of your site crawled.
NO!!!! Lol...u shouldn't have paid. You could have used GSite Crawler. I am using it to index about 40K pages and it's free. oh well.
I am also using the same. - http://www.xml-sitemaps.com Paid version is good and having nice features for large sites.
Best one is: http://www.sitemapdoc.com/ becasue for this website we can create RSS, XML, HTML and other format sitemap with single click. After creationg of Sitemap, just submit to Google Sitemap submissions.
I tried the free sitemap generator at xml-sitemaps.com It was easy. For my smaller sites, it is perfect, because there is no tremendous learning curve and set-up time, as I have seen with some software. My larger sites have up to 83,000 documents. For those of you who have used the unlimited version: Is the unlimited version relatively easy to use? Any problem using it to create sitemaps for more than one site?
My initial perception of it is there is a steep learning curve and set-up time. Is it easier than I imagine?
If your URLs happen to be in a mysql database, I wrote a short function to iterate through and create a sitemap every 50,000 links. I posted it in the programming forum somewhere. It's pretty simple to use, I use it to generate many sitemaps. (Of course you need to figure out the query to use in mysql, but I gave some examples.)