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Hello,

I use gsitecrawler to create sitemap for my websites.

Are there any tool to create a sitemap better than gsitecrawler?

I learned from this forum that if we have a sitemap on each site, it is good for SEO.

My other question is, gsitecrawler creates a sitemap and I place sitemap.xml file on the root directory.

Do I need to place it on the homepage?

Since my dating site has many links, what is the best way to do that?

Thanks.

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Good thread — useful starting points from , and . For a large, dynamic site (dating sites are a classic example) the choice of generator matters less than how you structure, split, and maintain sitemaps so they actually help crawlers find the pages you care about.

Keep the sitemap rules in mind when designing your system: each sitemap file may list up to 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 50MB uncompressed; if you need more, use a sitemap index and multiple sitemap files. Sitemaps can be plain-text or XML and may be compressed to save bandwidth — plan your generation around these limits. (sitemaps.org)

For a dating site specifically: generate sitemaps programmatically (cron or on-demand) and split them by content type or URL pattern (profiles, images, videos, static pages). Only include canonical, user‑facing pages — avoid search results, session IDs, faceted filter pages, and any URL variants you don’t want indexed. Use separate image/video sitemaps for media-heavy content and only emit a <lastmod> value when it’s accurate. Also note the old “ping” endpoint is deprecated — rely on the Sitemap lines in robots.txt and Search Console for discovery and monitoring instead of unauthenticated pings. (developers.google.com)

Quick, practical checklist to apply now:

  • Keep each sitemap <= 50k URLs / 50MB and use a sitemap index for more.
  • Generate sitemaps automatically; rotate or update only what changes.
  • Exclude faceted/search/session URLs; include canonical profile pages only.
  • Use separate sitemaps for images/videos and provide accurate <lastmod> if used.
  • Add Sitemap: directives to robots.txt and monitor coverage/errors in Search Console.

Example robots.txt line (place at site root):

Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap-index.xml

Following those steps keeps sitemaps useful for discovery without wasting crawl budget or serving crawlers irrelevant URLs.

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Member Avatar for AirForceOne

In my own experiences, submitting a well-structured sitemap to those top 4 search engines would be really helpful in increasing deep indexing purpose. You might need to create an account and submit your sitemap via webmaster center on Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Have a nice day,

Member Avatar for julilaami

site map is good for SEOs industry....

Member Avatar for almostbob

create a google webmaster tools account
verify ownershipe of your site in the account (Follow instructions)
submit sitemap IN webmaster account (follow instructions)

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Member Avatar for lessonup

Gsitecrawler is best for create sitemap, most of the people create sitemap from gsitwcrawler.

Member Avatar for christiangel.mathews

Create a xml sitemap for google and i think for other search engines also this is useful.

Member Avatar for Ketul_1

There are many free tools are available for generate xml sitemap. After generate xml sitemap, you will place it on root directory and submit on search engine by webmaster tools. It is very helpful to site for crawl and index your pages.

Member Avatar for casino7123

Yes its good for SEO.

Member Avatar for Kelly Burby

Well, actually there are many sites that can be used to create sitemaps for the websites. Every tool knows how to create XML sitemaps but what matters actually matters is how you do the over all off page optimization for your site because that is the thing that plays an important role in putting you on top or either at the bottom of the SERPs.

Member Avatar for jobtardis92

XML generator is the sitemap generator. Sitemap gives the structure of the website. It is used to crawl the website easily.

Member Avatar for thaversantosh

we create two types of site map html site map and xml site map . html site map is used to give the structure of site and xml site map is used to create for google .So that google boot eassly index your site .

Member Avatar for almostbob

2 kinds of sitemap
xml sitemap, bot readable, a good idea
html sitemap, site navigation is a failure. if you need a human readable sitemap redesign the menu

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Member Avatar for arupweb

Gsitecrawler is the best to create site map for your website.

Member Avatar for omthavertch

hmm gsitecrawler is the best to create the site map

Member Avatar for Sarah_27

Sitemaps are very important for any website to be placed in Google as they helped in better navigation and also provide the information to Search Engines about the changes that you have made in your website. Obviously It won't directly pull the Crawlers to see trhe changes made but they would definitely visit and index those changes you have made.
Other benefit of using the Sitemaps is that you don't have to put Externals links for letting crawlers to Index your website as Sitemaps would dothe trick for you.

Hope this would help..:)

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