sitemap.module (version 2.010)

sitemap.module is a PHP utility to generate website site maps in XML, suitable for web site management at Google & Yahoo sitemaps. It can also generate text-based sitemaps.

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benefits

give Google or Yahoo a full map of your website
stimulate Google or Yahoo to review your website

features

For information about Google site-maps, visit Google sitemaps. For information about Yahoo site-maps, visit Yahoo site explorer. In brief, Google & Yahoo sitemaps help webmasters to manage their sites and to specify which sections of their websites are most important to search engines.

For a live demonstration of how this works, click on the "Submit" button below to create an XML sitemap for this very site.

Start directory:

This is the physical directory corresponding to the highest level at which you wish to start the sitemap.

Start URL:

This is the URL corresponding to the highest level at which you wish to start the sitemap. Typically this will be you website's main address.

Default change frequency:

The default change frequency will be applied to each file by default; you may then want to change some values by hand afterwards. The value 'auto' is special; this will work out a change frequency for each file based on the last modified date. This change frequency is used by Google & Yahoo's web spiders to determine which pages need more frequent visits.

Default priority:

The default priority will be applied to all files equally; may wish to change some values by hand afterwards. Acceptable values are 0.0 to 1.0. The priorities are relative between your web pages, so use them to indicate those files which are most important to have indexed (higher values) and those which are of lesser importance (lower values).

Select target:
For xml: For text:

At the time of writing, Google & Yahoo make use of an XML Sitemap using all the above features, but can also make use of a simple text file.

By default, sitemap.module processes all .html, .shtml, .asp, .jsp, .php files found in the path. You can control this behaviour by setting the exclude file list or include file list below to avoid or include certain file types or directories, using Perl regular expressions in a comma separated list.

Exclude file list:

This is a comma-separated list of files to be excluded.

Include file list:

This is a comma-separated list of files to be included.

For your questions about sitemap.module, you might like to visit our frequently-asked questions page.

To download the sitemap.module implementation guide, click here.

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