Google Sitemap Generator – Efficient and better !

Now that was a surprise. With all the third party sitemap gnerators available, this one is a Killer !
Google has announced it’s own homegrown Sitemap generator for webmasters that is more efficient than any other sitemap generators available yet.

Well, sitemaps are just a bunch of links for the spiders after all, but there’s quite a bit of thinking that goes into before creating one. And that’s what we weren’t told about in all the thirdparty sitemap generators, but not anymore. Google’s sitemap generator tool thinks on it’s own – or so it looks like.

According to the official blog,

Our new open-source Google Sitemap Generator finds new and modified URLs based on your webserver’s traffic, its log files, or the files found on the server. By combining these methods, Google Sitemap Generator can be very fast in finding these URLs and calculating relevant metadata, thereby making your Sitemap files as effective as possible.

So that means more effective sitemap generation and better indexing. And it’s from Google, so there’s no way you want to compromise on this with your old sitemap generator tools.

The only problem it looks like, is going to be the implementation part. Google Sitemap Generator is a server plug-in that can be installed on both Linux/Apache and Microsoft IIS Windows-based servers. As with other server-side plug-ins, you will need to have administrative access to the server to install it. You can find detailed information for the installation in the Google Sitemap Generator documentation.

So did you get rid of your old sitemap generators or ?