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    • Matchnode
      Matchnode last edited by

      Has anyone used a Dynamic XML Sitemap Generator tool? Looking for recommendations!

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      • LoganRay
        LoganRay last edited by

        Hi Chris,

        Screaming Frog has been my go-to XML sitemap generator for years. Plenty of customization options for exclusions and inclusions.

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        • 4RS_John
          4RS_John last edited by

          Are you running a CMS? If so maybe it has one built-in or available as a plugin - for example the Yoast SEO plugin on WordPress will create a sitemap, has plenty of inclusion & exclusion rules, (including a per-page override), and helps you do a bunch of other stuff too. I'm most other CMSs have something available by now.

          If it's a custom-built dynamic site maybe your development team, (or developer), can add sitemap functionality. If you have a lot of pages, backed by a custom database, the best way to make sure your sitemap is up to date will be to generate it based on your data, not let some 3rd-party tool follow links around your site - Google can do that already!

          If you are not running a CMS, or a custom app, how many pages do you have? It might be easiest to write the XML sitemap by hand, (although I'm a developer, so that's easy for me to say), or try out Logan's recommendation.

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