Sitemaps as discussed in our previous posts are the unique way to tell search engines about the pages on your website.We have seen how to create XML and HTML sitemaps as well as how to submit the same to Google Webmaster central as well as Bing. Also we discussed about how to create and include Video content in Sitemaps as well as Sitemap Index files to group multiple Sitemap files.
Today we will discuss about the free tools available online that can be used to create and validate your Sitemaps.
The following are links to tools that generate or maintain files in the XML Sitemaps format, an open standard defined on sitemaps.org and supported by the search engines such as Google,Bing,Ask,Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo!.
After generating the Sitemap it has to be verified against the standards defined by the sitemap.org organization.
Sitemap Generators
XML-SITEMAPS.COM
The tools generates Sitemaps including number of pages, broken links list, XML file content and link to a compressed Sitemap. You can download the compressed Sitemap file and use it.Maximum 500 pages will be indexed in Sitemap.
SEOUTILITY.COM
The Seoutility Google Sitemap Generator to extract up to the task 5000 URLs into your web pages and create an xml file the syntax provided by the protocol.Create the XML file containing the Google Sitemap and make it available to download .
FREE SITEMAP GENERATOR
Supports 5,000 URLs per site.Free Sitemap Generator spider your entire site (up to 5,000 pages) to make sure all links/pages are included in the Sitemap.
AUTOMAPIT.COM
The Google Sitemap is built as an XML file using special tags that describe your web content.AutoMapIt can spider your site, upload your Sitemaps, notify the search engines, provide broken link checking, keyword analysis (site-wide), and check your website for broken links.
ADDME.COM
This Sitemap generator tool is compliant with Sitemap.org.You can generate Sitemaps that can be used as it is to submit to search engines.
SCRIPTSOCKET
Create sitemaps of your site for Google Search Engine for better and more efficient indexing of your web site.
RESOURCESEO.COM
This service also provides free Sitemap generation. But this tool generates an XML Sitemap for only the first 100 URLS it finds.
NEUROTICWEB.COM
A webmaster tool to make a google site map.You can save this generated XML as Sitemap.xml (in UTF-8) and send to google.
ENARION.NET
Generate your Google Sitemap with the phpSitemapNG online sitemap generator with the url and just one click.
Sitemap Validators
The following online tools checks the validity of the Sitemap file.
AUTOMAPIT.COM
This tool will validate your Sitemap to be sure that it gets accepted by the search engines.
SMART-IT-CONSULTING.COM
Feel free to use this online tool to validate the XML structure of your Google Sitemap.
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