Google has introduced an initiative to have your website's sitemap submitted to speed up indexing and to assist Google in keeping your site changes current.

All of the following solutions are *no cost*. (Keep your money in your wallet for this one.)

Since I only received this list this morning I can't make any recommendations yet, however there are some comments to guide you in your selection.

Google Site Map Generators

PC Based Windows 2000 or Windows XP Site Map Generators

http://johannesmueller.com/gs/

16 MB
Very good onsite documentation

Site Map Generators for Word Press

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final

Key Features

• Generates a sitemap for homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archive pages.


• The XML file gets automatically rebuilt if you change/edit/create/publish a post.


• Can automatically tell Google about changes via Google-Ping


• Include external pages which aren’t generated by WordPress.

Online Site Map Generator

http://www.blocklayer.com/googlesitemap/Default.aspx

Maximum entries in sitemap = 500

Works well (within its 500 limit capacity) and can also generate an HTML site map for your visitors.

Considerations: Since I use Nucleus at WebBizProfit.com there are multiple ways that items are categorized including the permalinked URL and the archive URL. Additionally it was the URL with query string and not the SEO Fancy URL that showed up.

So if you are using a CMS with Mod Rewrite or your site is more than 500 pages then this won't be the best solution.

Site Map Generator from Google

http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html

Protocol for the Google site map generator.

For the more advanced user.

Requires P'ython Version 2.2 to be installed on your server and T'elnet/S'SH access.

To see if python is installed on your server at the command line prompt type:

which python OR whereis python

If you are going this route then there is also this python site map generator at sourceforge.

Enjoy!