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Create Text, HTML, RSS and XML sitemaps for your website.
Free 30 days evaluation period. Download file size 2.27 MB.
Price $59 includes all 2.x releases and one year upgrade subscription.
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A1 Sitemap Generator 2.1.1 :

Various bug fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.1.0 :

Now features an optional alternative HTTP engine using Windows API.
Expanded resume functionality to include a "light" mode.
Various bug fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.9 :

Various fixes in sitemapper tool.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.8 :

Added support for Google Base feeds. (Extension to RSS feed files) However, only the most common tags are supported at this point.
Various improvements and bug fixes in sitemapper program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.7 :

Croatian translation by Sanjin Barac.
Added support for ROR sitemaps. (Extension to RSS feed files)

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.6 :

Various improvements and fixes in sitemap generator program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.5 :

Various fixes in sitemap generator tool.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.4 :

Fixed issue introduced in 2.0.3 where HTML Parser would stop when encountering unexpected characters instead of simply continuing parsing HTML tags.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.3 :

Support for the updated Google news sitemap protocol.
Further improved support for Google video sitemaps.
Fixed a few issues regarding HTML sitemaps.
Various bug fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.2 :

Improved support for video xml sitemaps / Google video sitemaps.
Added support for code xml sitemaps / Google code sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.1 :

Chinese translation by Xiong.
Various small issues fixed.
XML sitemaps can now include a custom XSL file.

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.0 :

Many improvements and feature enhancements.
For information about free subscription upgrades vs discounted paid upgrades, click any of the "upgrade" links. There you can also find the latest sitemap generator 1.x.x version available for download.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.8 :

Various enhancements in program, website crawler and sitemap builder.
A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.7 :

Added support for custom request headers during website crawl.
Various enhancements, e.g. in website scanner.
Serbian translation by Goran Nešic, http://www.readyonpcshop.com
Dutch/Belgian translation by Dries Hauwaert, http://www.1001tips.be
Improved sitemap generator project loading speed and memory usage.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.6 :

Miscellaneous minor improvements in captions/descriptions and crawler engine.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.5 :

Improvements in crawler engine.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.4 :

Some speed improvements in certain cases.
Improvements in registration process.
Various improvements in crawler and program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.3 :

Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.2 :

Various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.1 :

Various updates and fixes.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.8.0 :

Fixed an issue with missing URL percentage encoding of certain URL parts.
Various improvements in program and sitemap crawler engine.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.9 :

Fixed some errors in website crawling and sitemap building modules.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.8 :

Fixed an error when building video sitemaps / build all.
Fixed some issues with crawler and output filters.
Added crawler and output depth filters.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.7 :

Fixed a couple of issues in Javascript parser.
Now optional whether crawler deletes URLs marked "nolist" (e.g. by "noindex"). This is useful when resuming prior website scans. Now, the sitemap builder has an option to remove such URLs.
Fixed various FTP upload issues.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.6 :

Fixed an issue with Google Video Sitemaps which also affected "build all".

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.5 :

Added excellent support for Google Mobile Sitemaps - XML sitemap file kind.
Added good support for Google News Sitemaps - XML sitemap file kind
Added moderate support for Google Video Sitemaps - XML sitemap file kind.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.4 :

Fixed a small issue when using multiple root directory aliases.
Added MIME type website scan "output" filters in website crawl functionality.
Added string/path/regex website scan "output" filters.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.3 :

Made BOM (byte-order mark) optional for all sitemaps generated as UTF-8 files.
Fixed a glitch where superfluous files would be generated for XML sitemaps.
Directories with error reponse codes are no longer linked in HTML sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.2 :

Program will now automatically correct scanned root directory if the entered is a pure domain URL that redirects.
Added support for optional headers when exporting data into CSV files.
Fixed a couple of website scan issues in crawler.
Added MIME type crawler filters for website scan functionality.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.1 :

Improvements in memory usage when loading projects with extended website data, and when building sitemaps for large websites.
Added some new HTML sitemap generator options and tools.
Improved handing of "web analytics" URLs in Javascript code.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.7.0 :

Scanner can now extract meta tag information for "description".
Crawler will now always store "robots" nofollow/noindex flags.
When "description" meta data is available, it will be used when creating ASP.Net Web.Sitemap and RSS feed sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.9 :

Fixed a potential issue that could happen when removing found URLs after scan.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.8 :

Various improvements in help file.
Better pause and resume scam functionality.
Crawler now support robots.txt wildcards * in disallow.
Minimized memory usage and optimized speed a few places.
Saving projects will no longer cause memory usage to spike.
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Improved scanner for websites located on local Windows file paths.
Ukranian translation by Anatoly Melnyk, http://prybyralnyk.com.ua

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.7 :

Lots of improvements, speed optimizations, minor and critical bug fixes etc.
New command line support for stopping scan after whatever number of seconds.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.6 : (and 1.6.5)

Fixed an issue introduced in 1.6.4

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.4 :

Lots of fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.3 :

Russian translation by Dead J. Dona, http://deadjdona.co.ua
Lots of various fixes and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.2 :

Made it easier to see progress.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.1 :

Fixed a bug that could occur when deleting items in "Analyze website".
Solved an issue with webservers sometimes dropping connections when crawling.
Various improvements and fixes in program functionality and user interface.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.6.0 :

Made the "Lingua" menu more easy to under for first-time users.
Fixed an issue that could occur on some non-English websites.
Various small optimization and improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.9 :

Fixed an issue when creating HTML sitemaps spanning multiple pages.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.8 :

Fixed a couple of minor issues, again related to 1.5.5.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.7 :

Fixed a couple of issues in website crawler that was introduced in 1.5.5.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.6 :

Fixed a minor bug in website crawler that was introduced in 1.5.5 during the major work on optimizing speed and memory usage.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.5 :

Changed how extended data is handled. Besides fixing a bug that could cause freezes in rare circumstances, the overhead of collecting extended website data (links, linked-from, used-from, redirects etc.) has been heavily reduced.
Overall speed and memory optimizations in website crawler.
Various crawler bug fixes and user interface improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.4 :

Fixed a bug that could occur when viewing external links.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.3 :

Improved handling of timeouts and resume of website scans afterwards.
Improved crawling of pages throwing error response codes.
Various crawler engine enhancements.
Various user interface improvements.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.2 :

Made options concerning session/user ID variables better and more logical.
Fixed and improved various things in the builtin translation and tool.
Fixed a bug concerning viewing data in "Directory summary" and related tabs.
Fixed a bug introduced during 1.5.0 development that could sometimes occur during website crawling, in particular with websites not supporting HEAD requests.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.1 :

Fixed a bug introduced during 1.5.0 engineering that could sometimes occur during website crawling, particular with very slow websites. (Timing issue with thread pool and cached data.)

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.5.0 :

Heavy research into improving memory usage and speed during website scan. Both areas have been significantly improved and more will come in the future.
General website crawling and program user interface improvements.
Improved the help file.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.9 :

Fixed an issue in website crawler with redirect requests starting with "//".
Fixed various minor configuration and website crawler issues.
Added multi-page (including continued multi-column) HTML sitemaps support. - NOTE: For saved projects, you need to update template code "footer" items. - NOTE: The option for max links per site map page is in "Template options".
Added a create "robots.txt" that uses website crawlers filters and links to XML sitemap / sitemap index file.
Improved FTP upload module with more options and feedback.
Added new FTP upload and search engine sitemap ping command line functions.
Added regular expressions support for website crawler "ignore" filters.
Added crawler obey option for "a" links using "rel" attribute with "nofollow".

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.8 :

Miscellaneous updates.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.7 :

Fixed a critical issue introduced in 1.4.6 that could prevent startup on systems using Windows XP with classic themes. Thanks to those who reported it.
Can now understand HTML "get" <form> and <input> <button> <select> <option>.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.6 :

One can now define a sitemap output file path for each kind of sitemap type.
Now possible to control which response codes are valid when creating sitemaps.
Enhanced command line support with new commands such as "-buildrss" etc.
Added a FTP "Upload all" function. "Upload now" uses last generated sitemap.
CSS parser can now h andle "#import" statements.
Fixed a minor issue with empty HTML comments.
Fixed an issue with HTML tags having an attribute with no value not placed at the end. Example "noresize": <frame noresize src="example.html">

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.5 :

Fixed an issue with root host paths such as www.ExAmPle.com (cased letters).
Fixed an issue with paths containing "../" and "./".
Fixed an issue with website login functionality.
Improved memory usage a couple of places.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.4 :

Made the HTML parser much faster.
Added BOM checking (in addition to server response headers and the "charset" meta tag) to identify the character set used in HTML documents.
Korean translation by Eunsook Kim, http://www.famun.com
Fixed a bug concerning website crawler ignore filters.
Fixed a bug concerning reading UTF8 translation files with a leading BOM.
Fixed an issue in ASP.Net sitemaps (these can be used in ASP.Net controls)
Fixed a bug related to LastMod in XML sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.3 :

Added some support for website scan logging.
Made some speed and memory optimizations in website crawler.
Disabling case sensitive paths will no longer influence strings after "# ?".
Domain names are now always lower cased.
Fixed a deadlock/freeze bug in website crawler that could occur when using multiple root paths. (And another very rare case.)
Fixed an issue in urlencode / urldecode (affecting certain characters).
Polish translation by Witold, http://www.naszacena.pl
Added "allow" crawler filters (can complement "ignore" and "output" filters)
Added support for "resume" website scans.
Website scanner now uses a load balancing thread pool.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.2 :

Can now handle servers that throw 403 (forbidden) on HEAD requests.
Fixed a bug that could happen for some types of HTTP redirects.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.1 :

Portuguese translation by Claudio Souza, clsbrasil#hotmail.com
Added support for also pinging Yahoo (and more) when a sitemap has changed.
It is now possible to override and/or leave out LastMod tag in XML sitemaps.
XML sitemaps can now optionally also contain XML necessary for validation.
Fixed a bug in urlencode / urldecode handling.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.4.0 :

Arabic translation by Amin Sidky, http://www.sawtelarab.com
Added more crawler engine options, e.g. connection retries.
Added better support for parsing Javascript and CSS.
Added support for <area> tag.
Improved HTTPS handling.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.9 :

Can now handle translated right-to-left languages.
Added some new crawler engine options, e.g. connection timeout.
Added support for defining number of urls in each Google XML sitemap file.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.8 :

Corrected a bug (introduced in 1.3.7) that could sometimes occur when saving.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.7 :

Added support for "Last-Modified" meta tags.
Fixed a bug with <base> tags.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.6 :

Added basic support for following references in <form> tags.
Added support for translation files to be UTF8 encoded.
Fixed a bug concerning summary data related to folders that are not linked.
Fixed a bug with <base> tags.
Improved Javascript parsing.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.5 :

Fixed a bug (introduced in 1.3.3) with HTML / template sitemap builder.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.4 :

Fixed a bug (introduced in 1.3.3) concerning page importance scores.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.3 :

Major update in how data from website scans are stored in memory.
Fixed a bug concerning internal links redirecting to external pages.
Various minor fixes with "auto adjust configuration" when building sitemaps.
Did so program windows no longer "flashes" at program start and shutdown.
Website scan progress now shows status of both "scanned" and "listed" files.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.2 :

Export of "tree link views" now always includes all visible columns / fields.
Can now import website data. E.g. text files with one url per line.
Added "Refresh scan" functionality. This can be useful if you wish to update your sitemap without performing a complete rescan of your website.
Now shows flags for different languages support in "Lingua" menu.
Fixed bugs and enhanced functionality in the "About | Translation" editor.
Made a new crawler configuration tab called "Data collection".
Optimized memory usage with certain "Data collection" configurations.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.1 :

Fixed a bug with <base> tag and links starting with "/".
Spanish translation by Washington Chevez, uia1#hotmail.com
French translation by Stéphane Matte, http://www.veri-sites.com

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.3.0 :

Added a new option regarding default directory for user data.
Added more directory and file name error checking when building sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.9 :

Improved support for RSS sitemaps and ASP.net Web.sitemap navigation.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.8 : [update]

Fixed a critical bug that could occur when saving. This bug became easier to spot because of a crawler engine speed enhancement in the previous release.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.8 :

Enhanced crawler to better ignore and/or handle javascript code.
Added an option more concerning extracting links from Javascript code.
Added support for build all sitemap kinds with one click / command line.
Added support for RSS sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.7 :

Added an option for website crawler not to "collect" external links.
Added website crawler support for HTML "base" tag.
Various minor improvements in the website crawler.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.6 :

Fixed a bug that would occur with some types of relative HTTP redirects.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.5 : [update]

Fixed a website crawler issue related to HTML comments.
Relative paths are also now accepted when setting website crawler option: "Limit final sitemap output to certain directories"

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.5 : [update]

Fixed an issue (introduced in 1.2.4) in website crawler with paths such as: "http://www.example.com/?var-has-slashes=mydir/mypage.html"
Made options relevant for "root headline" in "template sitemaps" more clear.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.5 :

Fixed an issue in website crawler concerning handling of HTML entities.
Added a template sitemap option regarding HTML entities.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.4 :

Fixed an issue with some "Create sitemap" project settings not saved.
Fixed an issue in website crawler concerning links starting with "?".
Added proxy support (username / password support still experimental).
Fixed "tip of the day" dialog.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.3 : [update]

Small fixes related to the introduction of the 1.2.3 crawler engine update.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.3 :

Overall improvements in speed and memory usage.
Added a new crawler engine option concerning tracking of links and redirects to and from all pages. Disabling this option will improve speed in certain parts of crawler and lessen memory usage (a lot), useful for large websites.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.2 :

Enabled exporting most of the visible data in user interface to .csv files.
Fixed an issue in website crawler concerning links starting with "?".
Improved the generic (HTML etc.) sitemap code template editor.
Will now, if necessary, generate sitemap index files for Google XML sitemaps.
Added Gzip (.gz) support for Google XML and text sitemaps.
It is now possible to leave out Priority and ChangeFreq tags in XML sitemaps.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.1 :

Improved Javascript support.
Fixed: I accidently switched captions for sitemap build modes in 1.2.0.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.2.0 :

Fixed a minor bug with code template builder.
Fixed a bug in website crawler.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.9 :

Sitemap builder code template options have been improved.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.8 : [update]

Corrected an issue with my build script for version 1.1.8. This issue caused an error message about spin edit controls missing a resource file (an image).

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.8 :

Minor UI behavior adjustment and help file additions.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.7 :

Added sitemap ping notification support.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.6 :

Fixed an issue with crawler filters always being case sensitive.
Did so "crawler filters" are checked before and now also after redirects.
Did so "listed file extensions" comparison are done after redirects.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.5 :

Fixed a bug with UNC paths.
Fixed a small crawler bug with destination pages for redirects.
Improved support for HTML entities.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.4 :

Various improvements and fixes in website crawler (especially for large sites)
Various minor improvements and fixes in HTML sitemap builder.
Added ASP.Net sitemap builder.
Fixed a bug with automating website crawl from command line.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.3 :

Improved the translation window by adding a "synchronize" function.
Crawler now supports login through HTML "post" forms.
Program has been translated to German by Dieter Matissek! Thanks!
Varios minor improvements and fixes in website crawler and rest of program.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.2 :

Improved the language translation functionality in the About window.
Added support for <lastmod> in Goolge XML sitemaps.
Added an option for normal sitemaps - decide link path used for "root header".

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.1 :

Improved loading speed a lot, especially for large websites.
Added "expand all" and "collapse all" functions for the "site / links views".

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.1.0 :

Automatic "importance score" is now calculated on weighing all links (a link adds more "power" if it resides on a page with many incoming, but few outgoing links). After that it is converted to a logarithmic based 0-10 scale.
The "importance score" is used for the <priority> field with Google sitemaps.
You can now override the calculated "importance score" and "estimated change frequency" for a file / page. The latter is for Google sitemaps <ChangeFreq>.
Added wordwrap and whitespace format to facilitate better source code viewing.
Added more options for creating XML Google sitemaps.
An intensive overhaul in user interface look and feel.
Overhaul in speed and memory usage. Improvements include: * Crawler options for URL size limits and detecting "circular GET parameters". * Most website "string" data (urls etc.) is now compressed inside memory. * Avoids "memory usage" spikes when loading and saving. * Faster saving and loading in most cases. (and shows progress now.)
Added some support for Asian MBCS (multi byte character set) encodings.
Added support for "robots" meta tag (all,none,index,noindex,follow,nofollow),
Added support for stripping out session ids in urls.

A1 Sitemap Generator 1.0.0 : (26th of January 2006)