Online Documentations

Sitemap Writer Online Documentation

• Hot Keys
• Usage
• Options
• Requirements
• Registration

Hot Keys

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Usage

1. Click Add button to add a new URL
   
   
   
   
2. Or if you already have a sitemap just open it
3. You can also merge different sitemaps into a new one.
4. Sort your list by URL, date, frequency and priority
   
   

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Options

1. Settings - Manage URL default parameters
   
   
   
   

   
   Date/Time Format

   Format	Example
   YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD	2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
   YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD	2007-01-01T00:00+00:00
   YYYY-MM-DD	2007-01-01

   
   
2. Confirmations - Manage program confirmations
   
   

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Requirements

Sitemap Writer requires Windows 2000/XP/2003 and Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1. You can download Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (size: 23.1 MB) for free from Microsoft's official website.

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Registration

Without Sitemap Writer registration you can only work with 10 URLs. Register your copy to get full access to the program.

You need a registration key for registering. Get registration key here: Buy Now!

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Sitemap Writer Pro Online Documentation

• Hot Keys
• Usage
• Importing or opening from Web
• Options
• Fast Editing
• Tools
  • Crawler
  • Upload sitemap
  • Notify search engines
  • Yahoo Index Viewer
• Requirements
• Registration

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Usage

Step 1 - Adding your pages into sitemap file

Open "Tools" - "Crawler"
Enter your website's root URL

Click "Start" button and the crawler will crawl your site's pages for URL. If your website has more than hundreds of pages crawling will take some time. Once your website is crawled, your URLs will be added to your sitemap file.

You can save your Index file if you need to continue crawling later, you can easily open your Index file from Crawler "File" - "Open Index" menu.
Now close the Crawler.

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Step 2 - Saving sitemap file and uploading

Save your sitemap file wherever you want on your local drive and then open "Tools" - "Upload Sitemap"

Add a FTP connection and press Upload Sitemap, the program will automatically upload your sitemap file to your remote directory.

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Step 3 - Search engines Notification about your sitemap.

Open "Tools" - "Notify search engines". In opened dialog box enter the URL of your sitemap and press "Notify"

Now you must just wait the search engines to crawl your pages.

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Importing or Opening from Web

• Open from web
  
  


• You can also merge different sitemaps into a new one (from file or from Web).
  
• You can import URLs from the HTML site map into XML sitemap.
  
  


• You can import URLs from the RSS 2.0 feed.
  
  

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Options

1. Settings - Manage URL default parameters
   
   
   
   

   Time Zone
   
   Select your time zone. It will added to Date/Time.

   Date/Time Format

   Format	Example
   YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD	2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
   YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD	2007-01-01T00:00+00:00
   YYYY-MM-DD	2007-01-01

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2. Confirmations - Manage program confirmations
   
   
   
   

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3. Languages - select your language
   
   
   

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Fast Editing

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Tools - Crawler

• Crawler is a powerfull tool which will help you add URLs of your site into the sitemap. Just input your site's root URL and press "Start".
  
  
  
  


• After the crawling complete you will see "Crawler Report".
  
  
  

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• If your site is too large to crawl in few hours, you can stop the crawler (click on the "Stop" button) and save (Crawler's "File" menu - "Save Index") a sitemap index file (.SMIF) and continue crawling later (Crawler's "File" menu - " Open Index" and click "Continue").
  


• Crawler settings - Set settings of the crawler (crawlable extensions and exclude paths). Check the "Include Subdomains" check box to include subdomains like "http://en.emergency-soft.com" when crawling the site "http://emergency-soft.com". You can also add your sites list in order for the next time when you are going to input your site's root URL you can just select it from a drop down menu.
  
  
  

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Tools - Upload Sitemap

Uploading a sitemap - Press the "Add FTP Connection" button to customise FTP connection of your site.

Enter name of your connection, host, user name, password and remote directory where the sitemap file will be uploaded.

Then choose a connection and press "Upload Sitemap".

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Tools - Notify search engines

Input your sitemap URL and press "Notify". Google notification success message is "Sitemap Notification Received". Yahoo notification success message is "Update notification has successfully submitted". Ask.com notification success message is "Your Sitemap submission was successful". MSN (Moreover.com) notification success message is "Thank you for your ping. The moreover database will be updated with the new data from your url - <your_sitemap_url> as soon as possible". If notification failed, try to notify the search engines later.

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Tools - Yahoo Index Viewer

With this tool you can see the result of your work. It shows the pages and the "in links" of your site in the Yahoo index. Just input site's root URL and press the "GO" button.

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Requirements

Sitemap Writer requires Windows 2000/XP/2003 and Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1. You can download Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (size: 23.1 MB) for free from Microsoft's official website.

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Registration

Without Sitemap Writer Pro registration you can only work with 10 URLs. Register your copy to get full access to the program.

You need a registration key for registering. Get registration key here: Buy Now!