Sitemap generator feature suggestions

Please post suggestions you have for A1 Sitemap Generator here

Please add feature to allow a searchable page tag that could be used to bypass listing specific pages when generating a sitemap using A1SG.  This would be geared more towards internal intranet sites as opposed to public facing internet websites.

Rationale:

SharePoint allows for all kinds of pages to be on a site. There are webmaster/site developer/chrome/template type pages, that one may want to filter from the actual "data" on the site.

In these cases it would be beneficial  to have a way to filter these pages from a sitemap which is exposed to the business visitors coming to the site. They are interested only in their pertinent data, and the
ability to find what they need quickly, without having to wade though a bunch of things that are not applicable to them, such as the layout template pages.

If there is a naming standard for pages in the site's URLs then that would possibly allow for some current filter that you have in place for URLs (you asked about this in a previous email). If there are several
types/naming stds in play for pages to be filtered, then using URLs will require compound logic to achieve what a simple single tag would fulfil. However, if that naming standard is not in place, the using a URL name as a filter will not work period.

Having a specific filtering tag somewhere on the page (I don't know where this would be put, but it would have to be wherever tags on pages are in SharePoint (2010 and up) which makes perfect sense.

We are mandated to use Vanilla SP – No designer) that would allow bypassing of the pages with
this tag, would seem to be the best way to accomplish this.

Once filtered, the sitemap displayed would only contain relevant pages to the business user.
The better the site is built and accessible the more likely the users are to use it, come back to it, and tell their
friends about it.

The site we are building is already a hard sell within the organization (Enterprise Architecture), so I f we can get visitors there at least once and provide them a good experience, they are more likely to come back and pass along the good word.

Cheers!
Garry

Hi,
Interest in Prestashop is raising as seen and consulted with many colleagues; I'm getting more and more quote requests for ecommerce SEO projects based on this platform: I would find very interesting a "pre-minded" A1SG for evaluating such sites. Is that in pipeline? If so, expected release? Thanks

Do you mean a scan preset that e.g. sets all analysis filters + output filters in a way so both website crawl and sitemaps generated are optimal and best quality?

Do note that scan presets usually just set options in

• Scan website | Crawler options
• Scan website | Crawler engine
• Scan website | Analysis filters
• Scan website | Output filters

So until a preset is available, you can edit settngs yourself

That said, do you have some example websites that is running Prestashop?

Hi,
Thanks for the previous info.
Some Prestashop examples (not massive sites):

• http://www.frikito.com
• http://www.deskandsit.com

Would a future release have the ability to create bulk crawls?
Business case: for example to scan 9 huge competitors of a client during night time, say 1 at a time.
Thanks

Would a future release have the ability to create bulk crawls?
Business case: for example to scan 9 huge competitors of a client during night time, say 1 at a time.
Thanks

This is already possible through the command line inteface where you can both load predefined complete projects or a base project where you override some settings through the command line.

See this help page:
http://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/help/automate-sitemap-build-upload/

Thank you for the reference, will study it carefully.

I received this suggesion from Peter

Our goal is to run the tool from a scheduled task to crawl our site and generate a sitemap on a nightly basis.  We installed the Microsys A1 Sitemap Generator and have a basic proof-of-concept working.  We are launching it as a scheduled task in a batch file that contains the following call:

    C:\Program Files\Microsys\Sitemap Generator 5\Sitemap.exe -hide
    -exit -scan -build -robotstxt ":C:\path\to\config.ini"

So far, this has worked great for generating the sitemap.  However, we also need some mechanism to determine whether the sitemap generator encountered an error, and pass this back to the Windows Task Scheduler as an error.

We ran some tests on basic failure modes, but it seems like the %errorlevel% environment variable does not change when the scan / build operations fail.  Is there a setting that we can change to achieve this behavior?

Hi,
I use to export the CSVs to Excel and cross info with other aplications; a useful trick is to create a new column right next to TITLE column and use the formula "long()" so it calculates the character length of the title and saves explanations to copy people or whoever... Having pixel width next to [Title][Lenght][Pixel?] would be precious, as this cannot be achieved easily with Excel.
Thanks!

Hi,


A1 Website Analyzer already contains this information:

For reference it contains:

• Title character length
• Title pixel width
• Description character length
• Description pixel width

If it has been a while since you last check A1 Website Analyzer, be sure to give it a whirl again since it has continously received more data columns and reporting functions:
http://www.microsystools.com/products/website-analyzer/help/site-analysis-seo-audit/

I have downloaded A1WA for a test, ages ago I did but I think I even lost the chance to evaluate it due to workload...
Will give it a try thanks

If the trial expired, drop me an email http://www.microsystools.com/home/contact.php, so I can extend it for you

No prob, it says "31 days". Will give a try to Keywords as well 

Received this suggestion from Greg

Is there a way for the A1 Sitemap Generator to show any new pages that have been added to a website since its last scan? 

Joel suggested this:

Adobe Muse program 
http://www.adobe.com/products/muse.html
apparently creates HTML like this:

<img
class="shadow position_content temp_no_img_src" id="u235846_img"

src="images/blank-fake-image.gif?crc=xxxxxxxxx"

ata-muse-src="images/real-image.jpg?crc=xxxxxxx"
data-orig-src="images/real-image.jpg?crc=xxxxxxx"

alt="my alt example"
title="my title example"

data-image-width="426"
data-image-height="712"
data-heightwidthratio="1.6713615023474178"
/>

That makes  A1SG associate title and alt to the "src" image and not the image references in the custom "data-" attributes

Мыць suggested:

If you in robots.txt

"Disallow: /components/"
you normally deny a crawler access to entire folder.

But Google / GoogleBots unlike other crawlers allows extended robots.txt syntax that can override and allow a subfolder/url in a disallow folder/url e.g.

Where is the download link for these programs?

You can get A1 Sitemap Generator here:
https://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/

Thanks for sharing useful information for us.