The Site Mapper

The Site Mapper is a generator tool written in VB.Net which crawls defined web sites and automatically creates an HTML and an XML site map.

The XML site map is in a standard format which can then be used to inform search engines of new and changed pages on your web site. The HTML site map is a list of your web pages which may be displayed in many formats and layouts.

The Site Mapper is simple to configure, has a built in scheduler to enable automatic generation of site maps and it ftp's the maps to your site after generation.

You can use The Site Mapper on as many sites you want. The Site Mapper will follow the rules defined in your robots.txt file and will create both html site maps and xml maps.

The Site Mapper is a useful tool for webmasters who require a tool to generate an HTML / XML site map on a regular basis and also for anyone who needs an automatic method of informing search engines of new and changed pages.

The site designers who want to submit site information to search engines for their clients and in fact anyone who requires building an html map of their web site will find The Site Mapper very handy as well.

Here are some key features of "The Site Mapper":

￭ Select the HTML site map layout from a number of in-built displays. ￭ Either use html codes within the display or use your own css style sheet. ￭ Define an external template where the generated site map is dropped into position. ￭ Create many HTML site maps with each configured independantly. ￭ Automatically ftp the site map when complete. ￭ Creates a log file of pages that were crawled and indexed. ￭ Exclude unwanted text from being indexed.

￭ Automatically creates an XML site map to the site map protocol standard. ￭ FTP's the site map to the defined location. ￭ If the number of urls are greater than 50000, it creates an index then splits the files into sub files as required by the site map protocol. So if the site map is called site.xml, it will create further files site1.xml, site2.xml and so on. ￭ Automatically pings the search engines. ￭ Easily add further search engines to the ping list as they adopt the protocal. ￭ Use it on as many web sites as you like with each site independantly configured for ftp, scheduling etc. ￭ Use the in-built scheduling system.

￭ Use it on as many sites are you like with each site independantly configured. ￭ Use the in-built scheduler. ￭ Data is stored in an MS Access database by default or you may use MS SQL Server or SQL Server Express. ￭ Creates a log file that can be emailed to an administrator using SMTP.

Requirements:

￭ .NET Framework 2.0 or above

Limitations:

￭ 30 days trial