Sitemap Automator App Reviews

Sorry to say that I waisted my money, this utility is just good to manage a small website (about 300 pages) but for do that there are a lot of free utility online that does the job faster and better, i have sites with 1000+ pages and this app just hung after 3-400 pages, use 100% of your processor and… do nothing, completely useless.

Seems to do the job. Filters are nice. No provision to save the sitemap out to another location to upload, they want you to use their built in FTP to upload it. You can find the sitemaps in ~Library/Application Support/Sitemap Automator and copy the file out of there.

When I gave instructions on how to reveal the XML file generated, I said to double-click on the name of the site at the left. This is wrong: click on the "Generate Sitemap" link in the lower right corner.

I have run this several times. Toward the end of the scan it tell me I have 20-30k unique pages but when it build the site map only about 12k of them show up. Dont know why it only includes a half or a third of the pages it finds. The other problem is that it never finds them all. Sitemap automator is about 50-60k pages short.

This worked perfectly. It ran a search. Built my sitemap then I added my FTP info and it uploaded it like a champ. And it submited it to the leading search engines. So much better than the online sitemap sites and well worth the 30. Hastle free.

Obviously I want my new website to have an up to date search engine index. Google only crawls my site by default every 2 weeks or so, and because Im adding / deleting pages daily at this stage, it cant find a lot of pages and my users get 404 errors. The solution of course is to create a sitemap so that Google can find all my pages, and index them at a frequency that I request. Creating a sitemap by hand when I have 301 pages to index is more than I can handle. Im not smart enough to write a script for it, even if its possible. So SiteMap Automator to the rescue. It crawls my site, returns the URLS, as well as rejected URL links, lets me edit each if I want to. I can specify a priority and frequency update. It then loads it onto my host server, tests it, and sends me to Google to set up a Webmaster Tools Account so Google will look for it when they index it. Not bad for $29! Thank you Rage, nice job!

It might create nice sitemaps but since it wont upload any of them to my server, its not much good to me. I have other ways of creating sitemaps; the advantage that I hoped to gain from this program was to be able to create the sitemap, upload it to my server, and make my connections to Google and Bing all in one place, but all I get is things like, "The server exceeded the 30 second timeout," and "The server timed out while trying to establish a connection." Thats strange, because I can upload the entire site to the same server without trouble, and any FTP program will upload a sitemap in a split second, except for this one. By the way, Ive tried it with three different sites so far, on two different servers. If I have to create a site map, then upload it to my server using another FTP program, there is no point to this thing.

This is not the latest version and will no longer properly download and install on Mac OS X v10.10.5.