A1 Sitemap Generator advantages
Some time ago I created my first ever video about A1 Sitemap Generator and XML sitemaps as used by Google, Yahoo and other search engines.
However, one response I got was the question:
“You should tell us why we should pay you $39.00, when so many others are free!”
My initial response was “and so many of them are IMO crap” 
I often get emails from people who have tried them all ending up very frustrated until they tried my tool.
Some unique features and benefits:
- For medicore sized websites, like 50.000 to 100.000 pages, my program can give much better linking and redirect information for all pages than other tools.
- Do you have a website large than above numbers? If you can live without detailed information like how all pages link with each other, you can change some scanning options and the limit becomes ~350.000.
- A1 Sitemap Generator can also calculate priority values for pages based on internal linking structure. Simply put, The more linked a page is, the higher its priority value.
Some website scanning options:
- Support for website crawler to “login” and scan password protected areas.
- Optionally obey robots.txt and nofollow/noidex attributes.
- Can go through proxies.
- Change useragent ID.
- Find links in CSS and javascript.
- Verify links to external pages still exist.
- Cutout session IDs.
Some sitemap creation options:
- Very rich HTML sitemap template system.
- Can automatically GZip XML sitemaps.
- Split sitemaps into multiple files when a limit is reached, e.g. 50.000 pages per XML sitemap.
- Create sitemap index file of generated XML sitemap files.
And those are just the simplest options. For those who need more control about website scanning and sitemap creation, they have it. There are also some qualities that are hard to explain, but still exist. For example how many types of links are correctly understood and normalized.
If I had to mention one more thing, it would be the sitemap/ignore/output filters one can configure the website scanner with. This, together with the automation support, makes is doable to maintain sitemaps for huge websites since one can very finely split scanning into sections. I believe I also here offer more options for the webmaster compared to the competition.
If you have suggestion as to what you would like more information about in future videos, please let me by posting a comment
Comment from Thomas Løjmann Jørgensen
Time: May 9, 2007, 2:18 pm
I agree many free tools are poor. Many generators max out already after a few hundred urls. But that your tool support more than 100.000 pages, this is a great news for webmasters working on huge websites with a lot of pages and content.
As well I like that you offer free e-mail support, without any restrictions in my experience, to people buying your software. Often with the free tools I have problems getting support, and when I get it, not very often is it a qualified answer or help.
I’m a happy user of A1 Sitemap Generator on some large sites I’m working with, my recommendation to other webmasters and developers are simple: Try A1 Sitemap Generator out and compare it with the free tools you get. I see many great things and ‘non existing limits’ in this product, that I often face in other free tools that I have found on google.