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Sitemap is a way of informing the search engines about all the pages you have added on your website. Sitemaps are soon becoming important files to create to meet the search engines requirements. Its very important to have a sitemap for your site. Its the way of informing Google about your website, such as which pages are most important and which ones have been updated.

Sitemap generators have been popping up on the web. Some sitemap generators are easy to use while some are very complex. You need to create three separate sitemaps for your website

Sitemap in html
Sitemap in xml
Sitemap in txt

If you are creating a sitemap for your website make sure you do not include folders or files you dont want the search engines to see. Similarly make sure that there is no missing file or folder that you do not want the search engine to see. It is very important to be updated with your sitemap files especially if you have deleted or added any pages in your website. Similarly you also need to be updated about any changes you made in a particular web page.

Google has come up with a new program for creating Sitemaps on every website. This new program is in the form of a python script that creates Sitemaps using the Sitemap Protocol. Google Sitemap Generator helps you create sitemaps from URLs list, web server directories or by accessing logs.

Google Sitemap Generator

If you are looking to install the Sitemap python script in your website make sure that your web server have Python 2.2 installed.
You also need to be familiar with the commands that launch Pythons.
You must also be aware of the different types of directory paths to your website.
You need to be able to upload files in your web server.
Finally you must have some knowledge about the encoding used for those logs and complete path to them.

If you are looking for an effective tool to help you with your problems, we at Sitemap Builder are here to help you with all your problems. Sitemap builder has developed a tool that meets the requirements from the search engines and generates the three sitemaps automatically. It also helps you update each page on daily basis or as needed. Sitemap builder gives you an opportunity to include or exclude files as needed. It loads to your root site directory folder and automatically installs the sitemaps.