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Upvote for the ton of info, great work.
BUT I would never under any circumstance recommend xml-sitemaps.com for any client. The whole idea behind the xml-sitemap is to assist Google in crawling. When using xml-sitemaps.com you rely on their crawling (which cannot be better than the one from Google) to crawl and make a report for you.
The xml-sitemap always always has to be generated on the server side with the correct and complete number of URLs and their info.
Hi Jim. Do you recommend not having one? or a different application to compile one? interesting in your opinion on this
You generate it on the server side. There are plugins that do this for most popular CMSes: WordPress, Jommla, Drupal and so forth. If you have a custom coded site you generate it using PHP and MySQL or whatever you are using. Just make sure to send the document as XML. Here are good info: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184
Yes, in my opinion I think it is better to not have any xml-sitemap than to send an incorrect one.
In my SEO consulting with clients, around 80% of the clients are sending a completely incorrect xml-sitemap. Missing URLs, dup URLs, wrong URLs, URLs no longer existing, wrong meta data - you name it.
thanks for the reply. even though i haven't seen any issues with the current sitemaps that we create, i will look into this.