Does anyone know how to automatically generate an XML Sitemap and then have it submitted to search engines?
I do it manually using this tool to create it
http://www.auditmypc.com/xml-sitemap.asp
Any ideas???
I've used a tool to create my xml sitemaps too, can't remember the name of it right now, but I'll post it later when I get on my other computer that has it.
If you are on dedicated server of your own, you can use the python script provided by google.
i was hoping to find something that could automatically create the sitemap, upload to my server via ftp and then ping google to tell them to download the latest file to index. Something like that once a day. I've seen various SEO tools that do this kind of thing for Wordpress and was hoping for something similar.
There seems to be alot of sitemap makers in google results for it that will upload it to your ftp and even update it automatically for you on you own desired frequency (daily, hourly, weekly ect.)
XML parsing overview
Two basic methods parse XML documents. One is the Document Object Model (DOM) method. When parsing an XML document with DOM, the parser reads the entire document and creates a tree-like representation of it. The second method uses SAX and parses XML documents with events. The DOM method, while sometimes easier to implement, is slower and more resource-intensive than SAX. Digester simplifies SAX parsing by providing a higher-level interface to SAX events. This interface hides much of the complexity involved in XML document navigation, allowing developers to concentrate on processing XML data instead of parsing it.
Sitemaps is an easy way for webmasters to tell search engines about pages on their sites that are available for analysis. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (date last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important, in relation to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
The Sitemap protocol format consists of XML tags. All data values in a Sitemap must be entity-escaped. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded.
The Sitemap must:
* Begin with an opening <urlset> tag and end with a closing </urlset> tag.
* Specify the namespace (protocol standard) within the <urlset> tag.
* Include a <url> entry for each URL, as a parent XML tag.
* Include a <loc> child entry for each <url> parent tag.
Sitemaps is an easy way for webmasters to tell search engines about pages on their sites that are available for analysis. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (date last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important, in relation to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.