Marco Beierer

<p>The <a href="https://www.marcobeierer.com/wordpress-plugins/sitemap-generator" rel="nofollow ugc">Sitemap Generator</a> uses an external service to crawl your website and create a XML sitemap of your website. The generator works thus for every plugin out of the box. The computation costs for your website is also very low because the crawler acts like a normal visitor, who visits all pages of your site once.</p>
<p>If you host your website on a dedicated server, you may not need this plugin, because you should have enough resources to generate your sitemap on your server. But if you host your website in a shared environment (as the most WordPress users do), it would be wise to outsource the generation of your sitemap to an external service like this plugin uses to generate the sitemap. This way it is guaranteed that the speed of your website is not affected for your visitors during the generation of the sitemap.</p>
<h4>Out of service</h4>
<p>It’s no longer possible to purchase tokens for the Sitemap Generator as of mid-January 2023.</p>
<p>The service is still available for all users that have already purchased a token and will be shutdown when the last issued token expires mid-January 2024.</p>
<h4>Paid plugin</h4>
<p>Please note that the Sitemap Generator plugin requires a paid token to operate. The free version is no longer offered.</p>
<h4>Video</h4>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/odTnCazabSE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Simple setup.</li>
<li>Works out of the box with all WordPress plugins.</li>
<li>Low computation costs for your webserver.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Technical Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Respects your robots.txt file (also the crawl-delay directive).
<ul>
<li>You could use the user-agent MB-SiteCrawler to control the crawler.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Support for robots (noindex) meta elements.</li>
<li>Adds nearly all indexable filetypes (for example .pdf, .xls, .doc) to the sitemap.
<ul>
<li>See the document <a href="https://www.marcobeierer.com/tools/sitemap-generator-data" rel="nofollow ugc">Sitemap Generator Data</a> on my website for more information.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Additional Technical Features of the Professional Version</h4>
<ul>
<li>Generation of image sitemaps.</li>
<li>Generation of video sitemaps.
<ul>
<li>Currently HTML5 video elements and embedded YouTube videos are supported.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Upcoming Technical Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Support for Vimeo videos in video sitemaps.</li>
<li>Support for HTML5 picture elements in image sitemaps.</li>
<li>Automatic daily creation of sitemaps.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Technical Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>cURL 7.18.1 or higher.
<ul>
<li>PHP 5.3 should be compiled against a compatible cURL version in the most cases. PHP 5.4 or higher should by default provide a compatible cURL version.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>OpenSSL 0.9.8f or higher.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Data Aggregation and Indexable File Types</h4>
<p>I have published a detailed document about how the Sitemap Generator aggregates the data for the generation of sitemaps and which file types are getting indexed on my website.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.marcobeierer.com/tools/sitemap-generator-data" rel="nofollow ugc">Sitemap Generator Data</a></p>
<h4>Is the service free of charge?</h4>
<p>The Sitemap Generator Professional is a paid plugin. A free version was offered for many years, but since August 2022 only a paid version is available.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.marcobeierer.com/wordpress-plugins/sitemap-generator-professional" rel="nofollow ugc">Sitemap Generator Professional</a></p>
<h4>Warnings</h4>
<p>If you already have an existing sitemap.xml in your WordPress root directory, this file would be overwritten. It is thus recommended to backup your existing sitemap.xml file before using the Sitemap Generator. I also have not tested the generator on Windows webspace. You should also access the sitemap.xml after the generation finished and check if everything is fine.</p>
<h4>Pre-Installation Verification Test</h4>
<p>If you like to test if the Sitemap Generator works fine with your website before you will install the plugin, you could use the <a href="https://www.marcobeierer.com/tools/sitemap-generator#generator" rel="nofollow ugc">Online Sitemap Generator</a> on my website, which uses to same technology as the plugin to generate the sitemaps.</p>
<h4>Use of an External Server</h4>
<p>The Sitemap Generator uses an external server, operated by the developer of the plugin, to crawl your website and detect broken links. This means, that there is some communication between your website and the server. The only data that is communicated to the external server by your website is the URL of your website and the fact that you are using WordPress. The server than crawlers your website (as a normal visitor does) and answers with the generated sitemap.</p>


Sitemap Generator Professional

An easy to use XML sitemap generator with support for image and video sitemaps for WordPress.

Auctollo

<p>Generate XML and HTML sitemaps for your website with ease using the XML Sitemap Generator for Google. This plugin enables you to improve your SEO rankings by creating page, image, news, video, HTML, and RSS sitemaps. It also supports custom post types and taxonomies, allowing you to ensure that all of your content is being indexed by search engines. With a user-friendly interface, you can easily configure the plugin to suit your needs and generate sitemaps in just a few clicks. Keep your website up-to-date and make sure that search engines are aware of all of your content by using the XML Sitemap Generator for Google.</p>
<p>The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.</p>
<p>Supported for more than a decade and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/page/2/#:~:text=XML%20Sitemap%20Generator%20for%20Google" rel="ugc">rated among the best</a>, it will do exactly what it’s supposed to do – providing a complete XML sitemap for search engines!</p>
<blockquote>
<p>If you like the plugin, feel free to rate it! 🙂</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Related Links:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-before-opening-a-new-support-topic" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial site.</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language" title="Installing WordPress in Your Language" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Codex</a> for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the sitemap.pot file which contains all definitions and may be used with a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext</a> editor like <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Poedit</a> (Windows).</p>


XML Sitemap Generator for Google


I just got a popup when logging in to my site.  I got this on the dashboard of my site.  This wasn't a banner at the top.  This was a popup.  I wasn't on your plugin page.  IT WAS ON THE DASHBOARD OF MY SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



If you ever show a popup again I will remove your plugin from every single site I have ever built and never install again.  I've been a web developer for over 20 years.....that is a lot of sites.



"""""Would you help us improve Google XML Sitemaps by sharing anonymous usage data? We intend to understand feature usage and use cases better so that we can provide you with the best indexation and indexing performance.""""""



I said no when I installed and I meant it.  What does a parent do when their kids nag?  They ground them.


Showing popups on login to dashboard


I needed an image sitemap and saw in the bio that it was supposed to be available, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I even created a support ticket, but unfortunately, there was no response from the development team.


Support team not respond

Generate multiple types of sitemaps to improve SEO and get your website indexed quickly.

Sitemap Generator Professional vs XML Sitemap Generator for Google