As I understand it a major foot in the door for Google rankings is to have a sitemap.xml file located in your site’s top level directory. Simple I thought, I’ll do a quick google on how to generate one and that’ll be it. Two days later I’ve got there! During this time I tried half a dozen online sitemap generators and downloaded both free and trial versions of paid for generators. There was something wrong with everyone of them! Until I found:-

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This is the best sitemap generator out there! And it’s free. It’s so good that immediately after using it I made a $15.00 donation to the guy who wrote it.

Since a blog changes everytime a posting is made the sitemap needs rebuilding and updating to reflect the added content. A nice feature of GSiteCrawler is that it can be automated, I haven’t yet set this up but when I do it will generate a new sitemap each night and upload it to my server automagically :-)

Here’s the list of pages currently included in my sitemap.