I don’t review items on Digital Media Minute that I haven’t actually used. I also operate under the assumption that even small tips have enough value to post, because the real value is the time I won’t have to take to find the tool or hint that I used previously and was happy to have. Yes, I use this site as a repository for any tech-related tips that I come across. Don’t you? Hey, we are coming up on 2,500 posts, and have been active for over six years now.
OK, with all that out of the way, let me share the easiest way I’ve found to create XML sitemaps manually for any new website you create and for which you’d like to submit an XML site map to search engines. It’s called, memorably enough, xml-sitemaps.com. Enter your URL and it quickly gives you sitemap files in compressed XML, un-compressed XML, ROR, HTML, or text format. Upload to your server then you can tell Google and the others that you did so.
Now having said this, I can also recommend the Google Sitemaps plugin by Arne Brachhold, if you have a WordPress site. It is simple, and free.
