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Filed Under (Search Engine Optimization, Wordpress SEO) by Mani Karthik on 15-12-2008
Arne’s Google sitemap generator plugin is pretty popular with webmasters. But it’s a truth that it has some problems, and there are no updates on it yet. I personally had to face two types of problems with this plugin on many of my sites.
1 - Something strage happened to the sitemap template, every time after upgradations/tweak, that I had to manually update it.
2 - The memory usage was among the highest in all the plugins I used.
Luckily, there’s an alternative today. Simple Google Sitemap - is a sitemap generator plugin for Wordpress that has some better options than Arne’s Sitemap generator, and takes lesser memory compared to it.
Developed by ixiter, this plugin looks like a good replacement to Arne’s plugin to me. If it will run into any trouble, is yet to be seen, but so far it’s done a great job.
One significant feature I like on this plugin is that it has a ping option by which, it will ping ASK.com and MSN, after the sitemap generation process.
Download the sitemap generator plugin here.
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This is great news for those who seek Arne’s plugin replacement to reduce memory usage and this simple google sitemap generator is much better because of it ping option.
@kamek
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this plugin is really good - creation of sitemap shld not be automatic as i really have a bad experience with this plugin (Arne’s Sitemap generator) as it really consumes hell lot of resources and fire a good amount of sql queries
this one looks nice and i hope it will consume less memory.
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http://www.karailiev.net/karailievs-sitemap/
is the one I use…its a pure xml sitemap without the links that arne has on his plugin
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Mani Karthik
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Looks good Anand.
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I have deactivated Arne’s sitemap plugin few days back because of server over problem.
@Mani
Does deactivating the sitemap plugin really make huge difference in Google organic traffic.From last 15 days(after removing this plugin) I have been experiencing low organic traffic.Please help me.Also do you believe in Googls so called sandbox effect for new sites?
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Mani Karthik
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Windows guy - Sandbox effect is an old term. There are proven ways to beat it now.
I dont think deactivating sitemap will directly and immediately cause an organic traffic slowdown.
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Thanks I have a question about sitemaps that my sitemaps index after 7 to 15 days?
why?
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Mani Karthik
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It cold be either one or both of the following reasons Sattarmalik.
1. Your time/updated settings on sitemap.
2. Your content updation frequency.
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Thanks Karthik for clearing by doubts.
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This plugin looks good, indeed the other one has the max memory consumption.
BTW Mani, does the change in sitemap from Arne’s to the new one create any problems with indexing the latest posts?
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Mani Karthik
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I don’t think so, as far as the links are in place and the number of pages indexed are right, there shouldnt be any problems.
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Great article, thanks for the information. In my view sitemaps are critical to getting your site listed in Google/Yahoo etc. correctly. This plugin is the king of them all.
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