Sitemap generator

Can you suggest me any decent sitemap generator s/w (Freeware). i tried Xenu. its cool, but reports timed out very often.

which one do u use?

PS: i am not talking abt Google sitemaps.

 

Hey,

Well I use EndShet - preety good in my opinion.

http://www.tipue.com/endsheet/

 

Hey swd, can you provide an example of a sitemap this tool created?

How does it work, do you have to provide each specific URL to generate the sitemap?

 

You just need to put in your main url, example : www.abc.com then click on Index - it will index in your sitemap all the pages it can find. You can also specify to exclude some pages, directories and so on.

I cant specify any examples but I used it to create my 7MB sitemap that I submitted to Google and got no errors

 

Thanks for the info dude

 

try GSiteCrawler, i am impressed with there meta data information included in sitemaps.

 

I've been using http://enarion.net/google/ with good results.

If you decide to use the above, read this http://forum.enarion.net/viewtopic.php?t=14

 

Endsheet can also include meta info

 

I use gsitemap. It eats a TON of resources but spiders a site pretty quickly and makes a sitemap for you.

 

but i told u, i am not metionaing abt google sitemap. i asked for normal sitemap generator which crawls pages, prvides a tree structure of links with page titles as anchor text.

 

Yeah I had been using Vigo Gsitemap but I found Gsitecrawler the other day and like the way it works. Also allows you to export to templates extremely easily, so it is good for publishing html sitemaps from the same crawl etc.

I have been creating new maps for my sites with it, and have not had any problems.

 

You might care to take a look at http://www.freefind.com/
I use them for my own website and you can see the results if you click on the Site Map box in the Free Find block at the foot of my home page http://www.duncanpollock.com/

Duncan

 

hi...I uploaded googlesitemap generator. Everything appears fine on my site. And googlesitemapcategoriess.php is also reading fine for google. But google gives me an error when I submit googlesitemapproducts.php. this is the error:

Invalid date
An invalid date was found. Please fix the date or formatting before resubmitting.

What do I change?

Here is my googlesitemapproducts.php page

<?php
	/**
	 * Google Sitemap Generator
	 * 
	 * Script to generate a Google sitemap for osCommerce based stores
	 *
	 * @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License
	 * @version 1.2
	 * @link http://www.oscommerce-freelancers.com/ osCommerce-Freelancers
	 * @copyright Copyright 2006, Bobby Easland 
	 * @author Bobby Easland 
	 * @filesource
	 */
  
	/*
	 * Include the application_top.php script
	 */
	include_once('includes/application_top.php');
	
	/*
	 * Send the XML content header
	 */
	header('Content-Type: text/xml');
	
	/*
	 * Echo the XML out tag
	 */
	echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' . "\n";
?>
 <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<?php

	/*
	 * Define the uniform node function 
	 */
	function GenerateNode($data){
		$content = '';
		$content .= "\t" . '<url>' . "\n";
		$content .= "\t\t" . '<loc>'.trim($data['loc']).'</loc>' . "\n";
		$content .= "\t\t" . '<lastmod>'.trim($data['lastmod']).'</lastmod>' . "\n";
		$content .= "\t\t" . '<changefreq>'.trim($data['changefreq']).'</changefreq>' . "\n";
		$content .= "\t\t" . '<priority>'.trim($data['priority']).'</priority>' . "\n";
		$content .= "\t" . '</url>' . "\n";
		return $content;
	} # end function

	/*
	 * Define the SQL for the products query 
	 */
	$sql = "SELECT products_id as pID, 
								 products_date_added as date_added, 
								 products_last_modified as last_mod, 
								 products_ordered  
					FROM " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " 
					WHERE products_status = '1' 
					ORDER BY products_last_modified DESC, 
					         products_date_added DESC, 
									 products_ordered DESC";
	
	/*
	 * Execute the query
	 */
	$query = tep_db_query($sql);

	/*
	 * If there are returned rows...
	 * Basic sanity check 
	 */
	if ( tep_db_num_rows($query) > 0 ){

		/*
		 * Initialize the variable containers
		 */
		$container = array();
		$number = 0;
		$top = 0;

		/*
		 * Loop the query result set
		 */
		while( $result = tep_db_fetch_array($query) ){
			$top = max($top, $result['products_ordered']);
			$location = tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $result['pID'], 'NONSSL', false);
			if ( tep_not_null($result['last_mod']) ){
				$lastmod = $result['last_mod'];
			} else {
				$lastmod = $result['date_added'];
			}
			$changefreq = 'weekly';
			$ratio = ($top > 0) ? ($result['products_ordered']/$top) : 0;
			$priority = $ratio < .1 ? .1 : number_format($ratio, 1, '.', ''); 
			
			/*
			 * Initialize the content container array
			 */
			$container = array('loc' => htmlspecialchars(utf8_encode($location)),
								 				 'lastmod' => date ("Y-m-d", strtotime($lastmod)),
								 				 'changefreq' => $changefreq,
								 				 'priority' => $priority
												);

			/*
			 * Echo the generated node
			 */
			echo generateNode($container);
		} # end while
	} # end if
	
	/*
	 * Close the urlset
	 */
	echo '</urlset>';

	/*
	 * Include the application_bottom.php script 
	 */
	include_once('includes/application_bottom.php');
?>

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