AutoMapIt Sitemap Creation Service

AutoMapIt has finished the first day of being open to the public. There have been quite a few signups and many changes have been made to help make this service easier to use. I’d like to thank everyone who stopped by to check us out today and to all of you who signed up already. You are in on the ground floor of an excellent and growing service.

BJ, from KWDesign has provided this site with an excellent look and feel and I am really pleased with the work you did here. I just wanted to give you a special thank you for all that you have put into this site and our banners. Your code was excellent to work with, you are a true professional.

The AutoMapit spider is built on our own proprietary code and is designed to expand it’s capabilities. Our spider, though simpler, trys to mimic the search engine spiders and concentrates on following HTML anchor links like <a href=”some URL”> yet is still capable of storing your feeds in your sitemap. It does not follow javascript: links. By setting up your filters that we provide, you are able to eliminate spidering loops and huge, spammy sitemaps that plague many sites.

The ‘tweak’ page will be the next to be added which will allow you to setup individual parameters for specific pages of your site in the Google Sitemap. This will allow you to set a higher priority for your homepage and any main supporting pages than the rest of your site. This priority doesn’t affect how Google ranks you, but it helps them to understand which of your pages are the most meaningful and important to your site. You will also be able to adjust the individual ‘Change Frequency’ for your pages. Some Stores use homepages that change products every time the page loads. The change frequency on a page like that should be ‘Always’, while the individual product pages may only change weekly or monthly, if ever. An archived Blog entry may ‘Never’ change, but the homepage of the blog may change ‘Weekly’ or ‘Daily’. These settings aren’t for everybody, but if you’re the kind of person who hits all of the buttons before you realize there’s a manual… this page is certainly for you!

We will continue to improve this service and always listen to your ideas and suggestions. If you ever have any questions or comments, please contact support.

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