AutoMapIt Sitemap Creation Service

While your sitemaps are being created and updated, AutoMapIt now reports data on such SEO factors as keyword density, code:text ratio, and total words used on your page. Using our new SEO Report page, you can see how much of your page contains useful words that describe what you do and how much of your page is filled with code that provides you little or no SEO benefit.

This new SEO Report page makes it easy to cruise through your site and see important information about the health of your pages and the message that you are sending to the Search Engines. Take a look at the top 4-5 keywords and see if they get your message across properly. Are you \’getting to the point\’ or is your message buried in gobs of HTML, CSS, and javascript? With this new tool, you\’ll know at a glance.

While basic membership for our sitemap service is free as always, this new service is fully functional for upgraded members only. Free members have a sample of what this tool offers using a single page on your website.

tags: AutoMapIt now offers seo information for webmasters in addition to your sitemaps.

A recent request for modification of the AutoMapIt Spider engine came as a referral from my good friend BJ at KWDesign. She was creating a Custom WordPress Theme for PoliticalVine.com by Bill Simon and didn\’t want to just \’throw away\’ the content on that domain by hosting it on another. The problem was that PoliticalVine was hosted on a windows machine in ASP and Bill Simon wanted to upgrade to a Linux server using PHP. With over 1500 pages being transferred, this was not a manual kind of project.

With a healthy dose of ingenuity and a can-do attitude, I modified the AutoMapIt spider to store the HTML generated by his ASP blog. One of the first hurdles I realized from this was to keep his dynamic pages linking together without breaking the links and without using the query string (after the ? in the URL) anymore.

Regular expressions to the rescue! Using the PERL compatible regular expression (PCRE) available in PHP, I was able to change his links and filenames on the fly as they were created. All of the links within his pages followed the same rules of renaming so in the end, everything matched up and the links in his pages matched the correct filename.

Converting his dynamic ASP to HTML, which is static, allowed him to move the website between servers and technologies without hindering it\’s performance in any way. Once the spider was converted, his site was spidered and converted in one move within an hour or so. Once the spidering was complete, I was able to zip the files that were created and send it to him. All that he did was unzip and upload and his new pages were in place, functioning as they should.

Tags: ASP to HTML website conversion was made possible by a custom web spider from AutoMapIt. Contact AutoMapIt Support to get your quote for custom spidering today!

AutoMapIt has provided support for multiple domains from a single login. Many webmasters have several domains under their control and the old way of using one login for each domain wasn\’t cutting it anymore. There is now a JumpBox above the navigation menu that allows you to switch the domain you want to control.

This allows you to view your stats or change your settings and helps to save you time. A new button has been added to the navigation that allows you to add domains to your account. We hope that this can be of use to you and helps your sitemap management become easier than ever before.

As always, AutoMapIt is striving to make your sitemaps easier to create with our 4 sitemap formats and simple account management while being powerful enough to do things your way!

Tags: Site news from AutoMapIt concerning multiple accounts to make managing sitemaps easier for webmasters. Every webmaster can gain from using a quality sitemap service.

AutoMapIt has added a manual tweak page for you to adjust individual pages in your sitemap. This page allows you to adjust the priority level of your pages, how often you change those pages, and whether you want individual pages to be included or not.

The \’Priority\’ of your page is included on your Google sitemap and shows them how your pages relate to the other pages of your site. Google does not use these numbers to compare your site to other websites. Many webmasters try to set all pages to 1.0 in an effort to show Google they are REALLY important and it doesn\’t work. My suggestion is to leave your site at a default setting of 0.5 and set your homepage to 1.0 as well as any other MAJOR pages on your site. While being important to your users, pages like \’contact us\’ or \’Terms of Service\’ should be lowered in priority. These are useful pages but they don\’t describe your site very well.

The \’Change Frequency\’ lets Google know how often your page is updated. Pages like a blog homepage may be updated as often as \’daily\’ while the individual post pages are basically \’Never\’ updated. Setting your pages change frequencies correctly helps Google to spider your site more efficiently and they seem to appreciate honest answers here.

The final setting we make available is a choice of update time for your page. Many servers do not support finding the last update time remotely. Webmasters with their sites on those servers do not have the option of using the \’actual\’ time for the last-modified date, but we do have the option of using current time or no time at all. If your server supports the last-mod remotely, go ahead and use the real time.

Finally, we allow you to block pages completely. In order to provide the widest support for websites, we allow URLs that end in a \”/\” and those that don\’t. The end result is that most sites end up with a http://www.domain.com and a http://www.domain.com/ in their sitemaps…and don\’t forget http://www.domain.com/index.html. Blocking one version of the URL or the other allows you to return to having one version of the page in your sitemaps.

All of these features are on the \’Tweak Page\’ inside your AutoMapIt account and allow for even greater control over your sitemaps.

Tags: Search Engine, google, sitemaps, webmaster

More webmasters are becoming aware of the need for having Google sitemaps to get their site listed quickly and efficiently in Google. While this has caused a recent rash of Google sitemap creation tools, most focus on the Google sitemap alone while ignoring other extremely useful formats. Most webmasters never pursue the power of the Yahoo sitemap, the HTML sitemap, and \’forget\’ to update all of their multiple sitemaps frequently.

HTML sitemaps allow all of the search engines to spider all of your pages, but this is often the most overlooked format. Search engine spiders do their thing by scanning your HTML pages and following the links from those pages. This cycle continues until all pages are scanned… in theory. Imagine all of the pages on the internet, and even with the best hardware, search engines have problems keeping up with every website. They have to do something to shave a few seconds off their day here and there. One way they limit their time on any one site is to only scan so deep into a site.

When Search Engines reach your homepage they follow the first set of links. From these pages they follow the next set of links found and so on until they have spent enough time on one site then continue on to the rest of the web. If they haven\’t found all of your pages within the first few passes, they move on until they return at some point. One common strategy for the HTML sitemap is to have every page of your site link to your sitemap and for your sitemap to link to every page of your site. This creates a very spider-friendly atmosphere that allows them to find all of your links quickly. Keeping your HTML sitemap up to date allows every Crawler out there to find your newest pages quickly.

The Yahoo sitemap format has been around a while and is much simpler in format than Google or the HTML format. Yahoo only asks for each URL of your site to be on a new line in a plain old text file on your server. It is easy to use Yahoo\’s URL submission page to enter the URL of your Yahoo sitemap and get them to look at your whole site. Once submitted, Yahoo comes to check on your sitemap and begins crawling your site in it\’s entirety.

Using the Yahoo, Google, and HTML sitemap formats, you can be assured that your site will have the best exposure possible in the search engines and your traffic will not be limited to what you get from Google alone. There are many search engines out there and all of them offer you traffic. If you are concentrating on Google, you may lose the other engines where your competition is gaining ground.

One of the biggest hassles of growing your website is keeping all of your sitemaps up to date. This is a monumental task to perform by hand and while there are a growing number of Google sitemap generators out there, only one service offers a single solution for all sitemap formats with zero risk of \’forgetting\’ to update your sitemaps regularly. Whichever solution you choose to make this task easier on you as a webmaster or SEO professional, be sure to cover all of your sitemap formats and get the maximum exposure for your website.

Tags: Our sitemaps cover Google, yahoo, HTML and OPML formats for any webmaster to use. This sitemap generator helps your seo efforts as a COMPLETE sitemapping solution.