Sitemap Generator

[hermit36]

Hi There

Can we use third-party sitemap generator to generate sitemap? We are asking this as we are having extreme huge link data (4 million and above) and sitemap.php doesn't seems to do the job of sitemap generation.

[Bruceper]

Sure you can, but most third party apps for sitemaps work by being a spider and visiting each and every link on your site.

If it's customizable perhaps set it up so that on the first 50 or 100 links in each directory should be indexed. That would save time and space.

[hermit36]

thanks for the reply but what will be the best ideal size of each xml file?

[Bruceper]

You'd be best to look at Google and see what are the maximum number of links they will read in a sitemap, I don't remember exactly but I think it was 50,000. Any more than that and they just stop reading.

Base the file size on that information.

[FSGDAG]

If you have a subscription to IndexUDirectory.com, Zubby has a MOD to enhance the one built into IndexU. It allows to more sitemap files.