mrMister - 11:54 am on Aug 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

I can't see how an automated sitemap creator could possibly be of much use. They work by crawling your site to find links. This is what Google does, if Google can't find the page, then the sitemap creator's crawler surely won't be able to either.

It's my understanding that the Google Sitemaps service is for pages that are hidden from crawlers due to links embedded in Flash, Javascript or other client-side code.

The sitemap generator should be built in to your web site's content management system. It shouldn't be a seperate piece of software that crawls your site.

Google have done a good job of creating a simple, yet effective way of submitting sitemaps to Google. It's not complicated to program a sitemap creator to complient your existing web sitesback-end software. I can't see an off-the-shelf package could be of any real use, it's not a one-size-fits-all problem.