Hermetic Sitemap Generator
Previously Hermetic Sitemap Builder
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This program is an offline Sitemap generator (a.k.a. a Sitemap builder); it scans files in a specified folder (on your local hard drive) and files in selected subfolders, and generates an XML Sitemap (a.k.a. a Google Sitemap). You then submit this to search engines to help them index your website.  To relieve you of a lot of tedious manual work this program can automatically set appropriate values of the change-frequency and priority tags for each file in the Sitemap. And it's fast. For a sample screenshot click here.

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XML Sitemaps

The original method used by search engines to index a website was to start at the home page and follow links to other pages on the site. But as websites became more complex not all files on the site could be reached in this way, and this motivated search engine providers to devise a way to help search engines to index websites. The result was the Sitemap protocol (introduced by Google in 2005).

A Sitemap (with a capital 'S' to distinguish them from HTML sitemaps) is an XML file which allows a website manager to provide information about the files on a website, most importantly, the URL for each file and the date of its last modification (and also how often the file changes and how important it is in relation to other files on the website). A Sitemap is placed on a website with a pointer to it from a robots.txt file so that a search engine, visiting that website, knows where to find it.

If a website has many files then it is very tedious to create a Sitemap manually (and to edit it for changes), so Sitemap generator programs have been developed. These are of two kinds: (i) Those which request the home page of a website (usually index.html) on the webserver and follow the links. (ii) Those which begin with the top folder of a website on the website manager's local hard disk and process all files in that folder and in all subfolders — perhaps with the exception of files which (in some way) have been excluded.

Sitemap generators of the first kind use the original method of indexing and thus are subject to the problems that Sitemaps were devised to overcome. Hermetic Sitemap Generator is a Sitemap generator of the second kind, and supports exclusion of files that you don't want included in the Sitemap.

Trial version: A trial version of Hermetic Sitemap Generator can be downloaded from this website for the purpose of evaluation of the software. Click on the following link for further information:

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Price and ordering: A single-user license is available for a period of 3 months, 1 year or with no time limit (a 'perpetual' license). Prices for each type of license are given at Purchase a User License. An activation key is required in order to make the trial version fully functional. An activation key can be obtained immediately if purchasing via PayPal.

Refund: A refund will be provided promptly up to 30 days after purchase if the software does not perform satisfactorily.

Updates: Purchasers of a user license for this software are entitled to an update to any later version at no additional cost.

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