need site map generator

[your24hourstore]

this comes with one lame attempt at site map generation, if you ever use google tools
you will probably see your site map down a lot. it comes up with errors because the cron job doesn't always work.

So what you get is one part of the site map generated, Ive even seen just one gs file , and there is supposed to be 3 thread,gz forum.gz and index.gz, i have posted it in VB.com and they act like its not really happening, but it is if you run it daily then chances are it will fix itself every day or every other day let me check real quick to see if mines up right now :>

amazing it is working right now. took me months to figure out to run it daily, because if you have it set for 14 days and don't check it its down for 14 days and then if it doesn't run right its down for 28 days, lets face it google will not index you like that.

So its actually ruining your hard work to try and get listed,I think what we need is a mod, that will generate a good site map then go in and delete the old files then write then new files then call the new files and check to see if they are empty or have site index. then if they don't run the job again and email the admin that the site map is Not working.

now i would pay for a mod like that

[wcguy]

I use this, $20, but be careful as it chews through bandwidth like candy....

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

[your24hourstore]

I have used the free version but I would like it to be integrated into the vb system itself
I know you can use it in your root and thats why it burn the bandwidth its constantly running :>

we need it to run off cron 1 times a day or whatever

What i noticed from webtools is even if i didn't have the sitemap maker to run automatically the sitemap would go down like it had changed, now how can that happen it was made it was working and then 3 days later i check and its been modified or messed up somehow.

mostly the errors i would get are there is no information in the sitemap
or this was weird , your sitemap does not seem to be in the right format . something about html
when i checked the files they were changed even though i had the sitemap maker on manual
so something is screwy

they need to just fix it dang it..... like selling a car with a trunk that has no keyhole to open it, its part of the system

again I'm adding this and I have just started doing this like a week ago. i run the sitemap maker daily so if it doesn't work its only down for a day, and not 14 day or something. and its up more than its down now, maybe this is the best i can do but im sure its a bandwidth hog too running this way

I have manually fixed this like 50 times in webtools since i have been owning VB.