Blog posts
📌 Home page redirects fixed
Tuesday 11 March 2014
Home page redirects fixed Some homepage redirects were causing problems for our spider and resulted in sitemaps with no files for a small number of users. We believe this is now resolved. Thanks for the feedback.
📌 Why do you limit the number of URLs in a sitemap?
Sunday 9 March 2014
Why do you limit the number of URLs in a sitemap? We get asked this quite a lot….. The main reason is that XmlsSitemapGenerator is a free tool and generating sitemaps is not a free process. Our spider indexes thousands of pages a day utilizing lots of server resources (Memory, CPU and bandwidth) and racking up gigabytes of data as it indexes pages and builds up profiles. The overhead of the spidering process is quite large especially at busy times when we have many people generating sitemaps.
📌 Improved download and error reports
Sunday 2 March 2014
Improved download and error reports We’ve made some improvements to the sitemap download page to make it easier to download your sitemaps. Firstly we’ve made all the files available as a single zip file download. We have also added a simple table that gives you access to your XML Sitemap, RSS sitemap and a New error report.
📌 Problems creating your XML sitemap?
Sunday 23 February 2014
Problems creating your XML sitemap? Some users experience problems when they create a XML sitemap because of how their website is implemented and hosted. Here are some common problems with websites that result in inconsistent xml sitemaps. Server / performance issues Inconsistent urls / domains iFramed homepage Bad header tags Incorrect server tags Page size too large No “real” links / Non native behaviors Inconsistent behavior for different user agents / browsers Poor HTML mark up Incorrect use of character sets Incorrect modified date header Server / performance issues
📌 Improved support for character encoding and redirects
Saturday 15 February 2014
Improved support for character encoding and redirects Character encoding We’ve improved our spider so that it can cope with a wider range of character sets including Arabic and Chinese. Don’t forget that for this feature to work correctly it is important that we can understand your website encoding otherwise our spider won’t interpret it correctly and your sitemap will contain strange characters and symbols. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_charactersets.asp Improved HTTP 301 redirect and 302 Moved handling Not only do we now follow HTTP 301 and HTTP 302 automatically.
📌 Spider Performance Improvements
Thursday 13 February 2014
Spider Performance Improvements Our spider was looking a little tired! At times some users were waiting a while for it to complete its job and in some particularly busy periods getting timeout errors. The good news is we have done some house keeping, clearing out millions of records, re-building, de-fragging, etc. and we are now ticking over a bit more smoothly. Don’t forget if you are having problems you can always contact us.
📌 Support for http-equiv="refresh" added and more ....
Sunday 9 February 2014
Support for http-equiv=“refresh” added and more …. On the 9th of Feb we made some minor updates….. New : Follow meta refresh tag e.g. http-equiv=“refresh” We found quite a number of websites using meta tags in their homepage to redirect to another page. Previoulsy we were not detecting this so our spider only found a hompage. We now take the http-equiv tag url and follow it. e.g. : New : Automatically follow both www.
📌 Happy new year
Wednesday 1 January 2014
Happy new year Happy new year from the XmlSitemapGenerator.org team. We wish you lots of success with your website in the new year!
📌 How to publish your xml sitemap
Wednesday 14 August 2013
How to publish your xml sitemap Once you have created your xml sitemap you will need to publish it to make search engines aware of its existence. This article provides an overview of how to publish your sitemap once you have created it. There are a number of ways to do this but the quickest and easiest is to upload your sitemap to your website and set the robots.txt file.
📌 What are RSS Sitemaps?
Wednesday 1 May 2013
What are RSS Sitemaps? RSS feeds are typically about informing search engines, directories and your users about new and updated content although they can also be used to detail all the pages in your website. The good thing about RSS feeds is that you can list all your new and updated webpages and submit them to the search engines and directories to improve the inclusion of new content. RSS feeds are essentialy XML data about the pages or information in your website e.