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📌 More XML Sitemap Settings
Tuesday 13 May 2014
More XML Sitemap Settings Did you know that if you choose the “More settings” option you can get more control over how our spider will index your website and generate your sitemap? Give it a try and find out for yourself!
📌 How do meta robots noindex and nofollow influence my sitemap?
Saturday 3 May 2014
How do meta robots noindex and nofollow influence my sitemap? We try our best to process urls in the same way search engines do. This article gives a quick overview of how the meta robots tag influences your sitemap index , nofollow Applies to : We include this page in your sitemap, but do not follow any of the links on it. noindex, follow Applies to : We do not include this page in your sitemap, but we follow any of the links on it.
📌 Improved HTML sitemaps format
Wednesday 30 April 2014
Improved HTML sitemaps format We’ve improved and simplified the HTML sitemap feature. Your pages will now display in a simplified hierarchy based on the order in which our spider finds them, instead of the flat list. We also removed the URL to keep the list simpler.
📌 New responsive XmlSitemapGenerator website
Sunday 27 April 2014
New responsive XmlSitemapGenerator website If you are a regular user of XmlSitemapGenerator.org you’ll notice that we’ve made some changes to our website. The big change is the responsive design to work better across different screen sizes and as a result you now get much friendlier look and feel even on a phone. Before Mobile After Mobile Before Browser After Browser Achieving this kind of functionality is surprisingly easy. We use the Zurb Foundation Framework and we would highly recommend you check it out!
📌 Do XML sitemaps improve SEO (Seach Engine Optimisation)?
Wednesday 16 April 2014
Do XML sitemaps improve SEO (Seach Engine Optimisation)? There is a great divide within the SEO community on the value in submitting a sitemaps to search engines. One thing is clear if you have a poor website navigation structure it wont help search engines find your pages, but your users may not be so impressed! So why might webmasters consider creating a XML sitemap? It could help with search engines figuring out canonical URLs, although a http 301 redirect is often better.
📌 Sitemap generation performance issues
Saturday 12 April 2014
Sitemap generation performance issues We would like to apologise for the recent variable performance over the last few days. We believe we are now starting to get it back under control…. The recent improvements created some additional problems when dealing with slow websites and hung connections. Some websites started locking up resources that were not being released quick enough to serve other sitemap requests. To address this we have added a number of controls to the existing list which are summarised below.
📌 Faster 1000 page XML sitemaps and still free!
Monday 7 April 2014
Faster 1000 page XML sitemaps and still free! 1000 pages We are please to announce a new milestone! We have increased the sitemap file limit to 1000 urls and best of all the service remains free to all. To help enable this we have also been working on the system performance and have introduced a couple of new features to aid this transition. Faster parallel page processing We now scan ahead and download multiple pages in parallel so that the spider engine is not kept waiting for pages.
📌 Improved HTML spidering (Robots, Canonical, Rel)
Friday 28 March 2014
Improved HTML spidering (Robots, Canonical, Rel) We now now parse a number of HTML elements to better understand your website and which files should be in your sitemap. Canonical urls We now detect the link rel=“canonical” tag. Where we detect this tag and it points to another page we will not include the current page in the sitemap and will instead spider the url specified in href attribute of the tag.
📌 Text, HTML sitemaps, Robots.txt and more
Sunday 23 March 2014
Text, HTML sitemaps, Robots.txt and more This version includes some new updates that people have been asking for including a new number of sitemap formats. We recommend that you have a valid robots.txt file, an xml sitemap and an HTML sitemap in your website root folder to optimise your sitemap coverage. HTML sitemaps The great thing about an HTML sitemap is that when you publish it any search engine can deal with it whether they officially support sitemaps or not.
📌 How long does it take to generate my XML sitemap?
Friday 14 March 2014
How long does it take to generate my XML sitemap? Our spider can sometimes take a while to process your website and people ask how long they should wait. The time to generate a sitemap can vary quite dramatically from a few seconds to over 10 minutes and this can be influenced by a number of factors. Key Influencing Factors Your website performance The key limiting factor will usually be how fast your website / web server can respond to our spiders requests.