Google Sitemaps ASP.Net Script: SITEMAP.NET Version 0.5.0.1 BETA
Interesting in the Google Sitemaps program, don’t have WordPress and can’t use Python with your server? Chinook has released an ASP.Net script that will parse through an IIS site and also parse through log files if they are available. The log file parsing really helps with dynamically generated urls ( for instance shopping carts). The results are outputted as an XML file that conforms to the google sitemap specification.
From Chinook : “Chinook Webs is pleased to present our sitemap.net tool to assist webmasters and SEO’s in producing XML formatted sitemaps in accordance with the Google Sitemaps XML template.
The ASP.NET script has been written entirely in VB.NET and will parse all known files in your website. Additionally if you have access to the log files it will parse through those as well. This is particularly handy for dynamic urls such as shopping carts, forums and any other database driven web sites.”
Check out SITEMAP.NET Version 0.5.0.1 BETA
I did a php script that worked this way, and started one for ASP.NET, but then had second thoughts. It’s really best to let an admin user verify which files should end up in the sitemap.xml. So, my latest version spiders the site and pulls up an updated list with checkboxes to ‘ok’ the pages that get pulled up. After that, the sitemap.xml is generated on demand, with updated latestmod elements. I think this is better than taking a chance on a general spider putting some of my temporary, broken, or private pages into the sitemap.xml. It may be better even than extracting from the web.sitemap file, for better control.