A1 Sitemap Generator

Create text, HTML, RSS and XML sitemaps (Yahoo, Google etc.) for your website. It has rich template support for HTML sitemaps, supports splitting and compressing XML sitemaps, near-endless scanning options and reports on broken and redirected links.

Pros: With HTML and XML sitemaps you can help Google, Yahoo and other search engines to index your entire website including blogs and forums, speed up finding and showing changed content, ease the bandwidth load on your web-server and decide pages shown in search engine result pages. Creating text, HTML, RSS and XML sitemaps (for Yahoo, Google etc.) to help search engines crawl and index your website is easy. This package has near-endless website scanning options.

Crawling of the website to create the map has several options and can have powerful settings. To speed up activities, for example, number of connections can be specified and can be more than 30. Several power features include crawler filters, robots.txt, custom connection and read timeout values, removal of session IDs, scanning of javascript and css files, proxy setup, website login, and various other options. Several scenarios for scanning are specified; alias paths during scan, e.g. http://www.example.com and http://example.com. Scan websites from multiple start paths, useful for websites not fully cross-linked. Scan local and online websites on internet, localhost, LAN, CD-ROM and disks. Scan static and dynamic websites such as portals, online stores, blogs and forums.

Broken and re-directed links are a major problem in successful scan of a site. It’s possible to generate reports on broken and redirected links (whereto and wherefrom). HTML sitemaps generation is supported by a rich set of templates. Generate sitemap files for ASP.Net controls. Splitting and compressing XML sitemaps features are provided to manage the XML sitemap generation for pinging the search engines. Can set and calculate priority, change frequency and last modified in XML sitemaps. Change root path used in generated text, HTML, RSS and XML sitemaps, useful in case you have scanned a mirror or localhost website copy. Upload of maps is simplified by FTP upload facilities, and the features to ping and notify search engines of sitemap changes.

Cons: No apparent problems noticed.

Overall a nice set of features for a very useful function. A rating of 4 stars is well deserved.

Create text, HTML, RSS and XML sitemaps to help search engines like Google and Yahoo to crawl and index your website. Crawler is feature rich supporting many website crawling options. Configure amount of simultaneous connections to use. Supports crawler filters, robots.txt, custom connection and read timeout values, removal of session IDs, scanning of javascript and css files, proxy setup, website login, and various other options. Alias paths during scan, e.g. sites that use mutliple domain names with same content. Scan websites from multiple start paths, useful for websites not fully crosslinked. Scan local and online websites on internet, localhost, LAN, CD-ROM and disks. Scan static and dynamic websites such as portals, online stores, blogs and forums. View reports on broken and redirected links (whereto and wherefrom). Rich template support for HTML sitemaps. Generate sitemap files for ASP.Net controls. Supports splitting and compressing XML sitemaps. Can set and calculate priority, change frequency and last modified in XML sitemaps. Change root path used in generated text, HTML, RSS and XML sitemaps, useful in case you have scanned a mirror or localhost website copy. Integrated FTP sitemap upload. Can also ping and notify search engines of sitemap changes. Command line support includes load project, scan website, build sitemap, FTP upload and ping search engines.