The FAQ covers almost everything including how to diagnose and solve crawling errors, handle websites on unstable webservers, scan large websites, questions about XML Sitemaps Protocol, weird Google Webmaster Tool issues, how to configure A1 Sitemap Generator etc.

If you have ever had any questions regarding sitemaps, I highly recommend checking our
sitemapper tutorials and the new sitemap questions and answers database

I have been hard at work in engineering the website scanner engine with a special focus on improving the already fast crawler while also have it consume much less memory. I am happy to report I succeeded at both

Overall this update focused on:

• Increase crawler speed
• Minimize memory usage
• Various user interface improvements
• Various crawler engine improvements

If you are already a registered user of A1 Sitemap Generator, updating is as easy as downloading and installing the newest version.

• Text file sitemaps.
• HTML and XHTML sitemaps.
• RSS sitemaps – RSS feed sitemaps are often used by blogs.
• ROR sitemaps – really RSS feed sitemaps with some custom extensions.
• XML sitemaps – also called Google Sitemaps and XML Sitemaps Protocol.

In my comparison of different site map kinds, I also explain:

• Background information and history
• Level of support by search engines
• Common and best usage tips and tricks
• Complete sitemap file examples

Have you ever wondered if ROR is actual RSS + some extensions? And howcome XHTML, ROR, RSS and XML sitemaps protocol all use XML, but still result in 3½ different sitemaps? Then read my article about website sitemap differences today!

Things covered include:

• Having multiple domains with mirrored and/or distributed content.
• Consistent usage of www (or not) in front of domain names.
• Usage of Javascript for navigation.
• Broken links and redirects.

And many other things, about 10 in total, that can result in problems for a website crawler. The article focuses on solving all website crawl and scan problems using A1 Sitemap Generator. For those who have websites where crawler problems can not be solved, the article also shows how you can still create complete HTML and XML sitemaps for your website by configuring the sitemap creator program.

Read the article and make your website crawlable by search engines now!

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

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• Website scanner now uses a load balanced thread / work pool.
• Added support pause and resume website crawl.
• New “allow” crawler filters (complements “ignore” and “output” filters).
• Various speed and memory usage optimizations.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes etc.

To see all recent changes, see A1 Sitemap Generator news

Read how to get the best effect from HTML sitemaps

• Getting most pages crawled and SEO tips
• Navigation considerations for your human visitors

• A1 Sitemap Generator
• A1 Website Analyzer
• A1 Website Download

We still have a few ideas for new applications,
but I suspect most of my time will be consumed by
implementing requests and suggestions from feedback

If you are a Webmaster and/or doing SEO,
I suggest you check out above tools