As with most things like this these days, the information is out there and freely available on the internet. I don’t blame companies for trying to monetize the service. Often, people who buy services like this do so because they don’t feel like they have the ability or time to do it themselves.

If the core focus of my career was not internet marketing and technology, I could see needing someone to do these things for me.

With that said, I do think the Google + Yahoo offer is silly. One sitemap does it all.

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When creating a sitemap, try and look for different url’s that point to the same page/content. Understanding and visualizing your site structure is very important. And if you find that you do have this problem, solve it soon with redirects. Otherwise your SERP’s might get killed and your blog or site, might end up in supplemental because of a simple problem.

Anyway, sitemaps are great!! I learned alot from them! =)

I just finished creating some 135 sitemaps. Actually its one massive sitemap just broken up over 135 files. All it took is some reading and about a days worth of work to setup and create the first sitemap and test it. Then I just repeated it 135 times =). It was actually pretty simple, just a bit time consuming, but I do have about 6m urls. =/ But I don’t think this is the case for most sites with under 10,000 urls. You should be able to do it all in one sitting no problem. There are even free programs that will crawl your site and generate the sitemap for you. Assuming you have solid linking in your site. Dynamic links are the big reason to create a sitemap and in that case you’d probably have to do it manually.

Anyway, paying for something like this really doesnt make much sense. First off, you should save the money. But more so, its good experience. Its very important to understand how a sitemap works, why se’s like them and all that.

So don’t pay, because it really is not very hard. And, also you might learn something along the way.

Good catch btw! Its crazy what people will charge for!

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@Rob Lee – they will not do a better sitemap than the free software, Rob. They use the same thing actually. The Google sitemap protocol is “universal” – it’s the same for yahoo and msn. Check out the links in the post.

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