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Google Sitemap Generator - Efficient and better !

Filed Under (Tools) by Mani Karthik on 14-01-2009

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 ?


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  1. Viraj SawantNo Gravatar

    Hi Mani,
    Sitemap doesnt make much of a difference in the listing of my blog. Is it so important as getting good links in SEO for your site

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  2. SEO Tips South AfricaNo Gravatar

    I’m glad to see that Google’s offering is improving. At one stage there was great debate on this topic and the general consensus was to steer away from using sitemaps as it was actually only makes matters worse from a SEO perspective. This seems to have been remedied now…..

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  3. BalajiNo Gravatar

    As soon as i downloaded it kicks me out by responding :internet information service required” i always have apache and am so lazy to install IIS.Thanks mani for the update.

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  4. BellNo Gravatar

    I don’t find a need for sitemaps.

    Most pages are almost instantly cached by google and sitemap’s are mostly a predicament for static sites.

    You should refrain from focusing on crap which doesn’t help in any way and should first do some research on REAL SEO and REAL online marketing.

    I don’t see any value in this tool.

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  5. Jonathan MeagerNo Gravatar

    Just in time for our sitemap!

    Do you guys know if sitemaps are still as significant as they used to be in Google for your PR?

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    Mani KarthikNo Gravatar Replied:

    Well sitemaps are a huge help to SE’s, even though they might not directly affect your SERPs. They help better indexing that’s it. There are a lot more factors to SERPs beyond sitemaps.

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  6. Rajasekharan N.No Gravatar

    Yes it is a killer that it’s killing me with the documentation that I’m unable to understand how to install it.

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