Free Flexible Sitemaps
Not all gaga over Google? Or do you simply want to reach out beyond Google’s limitations? (Yes, they do have them.)
To create free sitemaps that will attract the interest of other search engines, as well as Google, as well as real
live visitors, take a look at XML-sitemaps.
Some info lifted from their site:
- Create an XML sitemap format that can be submitted to Google to help them crawl your website better.
- Create a Text sitemap to submit to Yahoo.
- Create a ROR sitemap, which is an independant XML format for any search engine.
- Generate an HTML site map to allow human visitors to easily navigate on your website.
Here are 4 simple steps to get it done
- Enter your full website URL and some optional parameters in the form below.
- Press ‘Start’ button and wait until the site is completely crawled (the progress will be indicated)
- You will see the generated sitemap details page, including number of pages, broken links list, XML file content and link to a compressed sitemap. Download the sitemap file using this link and put it into the “public_html/” folder of your site.
- Go to your Google Webmaster account and add your sitemap URL. Please check About Google sitemaps page for more info. (Necessary for Google only, natch.)
Looks real clean and simple. I like it. Now I just need to use it. Did I mention it’s free?
ROR sitemaps are really just RSS files with some extensions. I don’t think any search engine supports the ROR extensions. At least none publicly state so.
Comment by Thomas — November 9, 2007 @ 12:22 am