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Generate Your HTML Sitemap Using Free Sitemap Generators Online

July 18, 2008 · 13 Comments

Free sitemap generators are over the place on the Internet. You can utilize them to generate a HTML sitemap for your blog/website just like the one I have on my navigation bar of this blog. Pay attention here that I am not talking about a XML sitemap which is mostly used to submit to Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines. If you want to know the difference between them, then check this article out here: What is The Difference Between HTML Sitemap and XML Sitemap? It is a good practice to have a HTML sitemap for your blog/website because you don’t want your visitors to get lost while they are visiting your site. So it is very important to have one. I searched the Internet and gathered some useful Free sitemap generators below. So make sure you check all of them out; and they are Free for use online.

  • XML-Sitemaps.com – This tool allows you to create both XML sitemap as well as HTML sitemap. Besides it generates Text sitemap and ROR sitemap at the same time. Free for maximum 500 pages indexing.
  • Google Sitemap Generator – This online tool generates XML sitemap and HTML sitemap as well. It includes a very handy wildcard exclusion feature too; able to check errors. Free unlimited use. Some people find it very, very useful.
  • Google Sitemap Generator and Editor – This Free online tool allows you to generate and edit Google Sitemaps, HTML and Text sitemaps. I use it quite often. It builds in an ability to check your broken links too.
  • HTML Sitemap Generator – This online tool is very easy to use. Just type in your url; enter the information I want to exclude in the ignore areas. It will create a simple HTML sitemap for you.

If you know any sitemap generators that can generate both XML and HTML sitemaps online, let me know in the comment section.

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A Contact Form For Your WordPress Blog

July 6, 2008 · 3 Comments

Why do we need a contact form on our blog/website? The main reason is to cut down the email spammings. You’ll be glad if you set up one for your blog/website since it hides your email in it. So do you want to find out which contact form is good for your blog/website? I searched the web and provided a list below. Check them out; find out which one is good for your blog/website. If a blog/website have multiple blogging authors, then some of the contact forms will allow you to set up to only send an email to a specific author.

  • Contact Form ][ - a WordPress Plugin - Contact Form ][ is Ryan Duff's original contact form. It is a WordPress plugin, that offers a simple drop-in contact form in any new/existing post/page.
  • PXS Mail Form WordPress Plugin - This plugin has updated email contact from plugin built off of Ryan Duff’s excellent wp-contact form plugin. PXS includes additional checks over the original ...
  • Enhanced WordPress contact form plugin - Another improved comtact form based on Ryan Duff's Contact Form ][. Now it adds: referring page on your site; if the original referer is a search engine, the keywords used in the query; the original referrer; spam protection ...
  • cformsII - contact form - cforms is a highly customizable, flexible and powerful form builder plugin, covering a variety of use cases and features from attachments to multi form management, you can even have multiple forms on the same page!
  • contact form 7 - Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. Supports multiple contact forms. You can customize form and mail contents with simple markup. AJAX submitting with jQuery Form Plugin. Spam filtering with Akismet. Bot prevention with CAPTCHA.
  • Secure Form Mailer Plugin For WordPress - This is the WordPress plugin version of the secure PHP form mailer script. This plugin has a wide range of features including: support for multiple instances, an easy to use dynamic form generation system (any number of fields, in any order), multiple...
  • SCF2 Contact Form - WordPress contact form plugin that lets you read and reply to emails while logged in WordPress and sends emails to multiple users.
  • Enquiry/Contact Form - This plugin is designed to be an easily customisable and extendable method of creating an enquiry form for a rental property website (or any website that allows users to enquire about date periods), or even just a standard contact form.

Which one do you use? If it is not listing above, let me know in the comment section.

Update: For a WordPress.com blog, you have options to put a contact form in your post or page. For details of how to implement it, just check out this post: Contact Forms. See my contact form in Contact page that I've just created. Enjoy blogging!

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