Introduction

Search & Indexing, Site Map, Site Links, SEO & Metadata, Content Links

Create an XML sitemap of your website for search engines with the Aimy Sitemap generator. You may generate an HTML sitemap for your visitors as well. Support for Joomla! and third party content given without extra plugins. Have a look at the features and options you can use with this sitemap generator to create your sitemaps.


Improve your SEO and website usability with this highly customizable and user-friendly sitemap generator.

Aimy Sitemap's Main Features

  • Set different options, for example per URL priority and change frequency.
  • Exclude content from the sitemap:
    • Use exclude patterns to prevent the crawler from indexing content or
    • use the robots.txt as it is evaluated as well or
    • disable individual URLs manually for your sitemap.
  • Notify search engines about changes directly from the backend using the IndexNow protocol (via plugin Aimy IndexNow PRO)
  • Integrated robots.txt editor.

Aimy Sitemap comes with its own dependency-free crawler. You benefit from this approach as any third party component (like VirtuelMart, Hikashop, CCKs,...) will just work. Furthermore, the crawler detects broken links on your website.
However, crawling your website may (depending on the size of your website) take some time. Although larger websites are supported, we recommend using Aimy Sitemap on small to medium websites with a couple of hundred pages only.

Additional PRO features

  • Unlimited support of HTTPS-only websites
  • Automatic periodic crawls and sitemap updates
  • More options for the HTML sitemap:
    • Hierarchy and priority view
    • Exclude file types (documents, images, multimedia files)
    • Language specific sitemaps
    • Editable titles
  • More options for the XML sitemap:
    • An additional, compressed version of the XML sitemap
    • Optional values "change frequency", "last modified" and "priority"
  • An integrated broken link checker (dead internal links and images)
  • Automatic canonical URL handling
  • Validate robots.txt in the editor
  • A progress bar during the crawl
  • Crawling of websites protected by Basic HTTP Authentication possible
  • Browser Notifications after a crawl of your website
  • PostgreSQL database support

Why generate a sitemap?

An XML sitemap provides information for search engines and their bots to help to index a website‘s pages and content.

By adding an XML sitemap to your Joomla! website you help bots to find all content. That is useful because crawlers often only follow a certain number of links within one website. By offering assistance for the crawler the probability of a complete index increases. An XML sitemap is especially interesting for:

  • larger websites,
  • websites with a lot of pages that are internally not linked well or
  • new websites with only a few or no backlinks.

You can send a notification about your sitemap to search engines like Google to invite them to visit your website.

Which information is stored in the sitemap.xml?

Besides the URLs of the website‘s pages, images or other documents (like PDF-documents), you can add more information within a sitemap for example the date of the last modification, the priority and change frequency.

The priority specifies the importance of the different pages within your website. The priority may help search engines to decide between two pages of your website if they are very similar. Therefore it makes sense to give information which is your most significant and detailed page for a topic.

The second information is the change frequency. If you tell the search engines how often the content is updated you let them know in which intervals they should come back again.

What is an HTML sitemap?

While the XML sitemap is for search engines, an HTML sitemap is for your website's visitors. It contains links to your website‘s pages – so it is an additional navigation and useful on larger websites.

Benefits of a crawler-based sitemap generator

A crawler-based sitemap generator like Aimy Sitemap crawls the website like a search engine bot might do as well. So, you get a confirmation that your website is technically fine.

In our experience, some typical problems revealed by Aimy Sitemap are:

  • response codes are not set correctly
  • there are broken links on your website
  • the robots.txt file is not configured well
  • meta tags for robots are not set reasonable (e.g „noindex“ on important pages)

So the extension helps to optimize some technical details to provide a website that can be crawled and indexed well.

Further benefits are, that no plugins are necessary to add content from third party extensions to the sitemap: Any content that is linked to will be visited and its URLs added to the sitemap. This is also true for documents, for example if you provide PDFs for download.

Functionality
I am using the PRO version. The extension is stable and reliable.
Ease of use
Very easy to use. You don't have to even go through the documentation.
Support
Documentation
Value for money
The price is reasonable for the functions provided. But I do hope they provide a greater discount for renewal.
I used this to: I use this for my tour-guiding website providing tour services to travelers.
Functionality
This is another great tool from Aimy. It does exactly what I need. With lots of features and options.
Ease of use
Effortless to set up and use, a few basic settings, save them and forget about it.
Support
Had a minor issue where I had changed ISP, Aimy support solved the issue straight away.
Documentation
Didn't need it, self-explanatory. If you get stuck, there are videos on the website that guide you through the learning process.
Value for money
Excellent value for money. It is a tool that is vital to keeping google updated with the latest info about our website.
I used this to: Maintaining sitemaps for our company web server and updating google with the latest information about our website.
Functionality
Tutto perfetto, ottima applicazione. Sicuramente deve essere implementato ma sono sicuro che verrà fatto presto.
Ease of use
Molto semplice e intuitiva. Forse un tantino lungo il processo di scansione.
Support
Stupendo, avevo un problema e si sono industriati per risolverlo in brevissimo tempo. Ora tutto funziona perfettamente.
Documentation
Molto buona. Non ci sono difficoltà perché il processo è ben chiaro.
Value for money
Al momento molto buona. Penso che bisognerebbe includere qualche plugin oggi a pagamento.
I used this to: La generazione della mappa del sito e sottomissione ai motori di ricerca.
Functionality
Very helpful finding broken links; weeding out URLs, both manually & by automatic filters, that I don't want indexed/included in the sitemap
Ease of use
I'm a relative beginner at this and found I could figure out most of it just with the documentation, plus support.
Support
Very prompt responding to emails - friendly, patient and helpful.
Documentation
Well organized, to the point, and easy to understand. Kept up to date at least once in the last few months.
Value for money
Affordable as sitemap extensions go, and 3 extra months when you renew each year. Very reasonable.
I used this to: Submitting sitemaps to Google and Bing, staying on top of broken links.
Functionality
The sitemap was created with not problem. I put 4.5/5.0 just because I had to contact client support to get the url of the site map. I
Ease of use
Very simple to use once you know that Aimy sitemap dashboard can be found in the "component" menu
Support
Very quick, clear and useful email feedback from Aimysitemap team. Same support person throughout, which is very useful.
Documentation
Very clear and thorough pdf documentation which I saved onto my PC.
Value for money
Well, it should cost a bit less but I'm happy since my problem was solved.
I used this to: Creating a sitemap to help google find and reference my site content
Functionality
This extension is for me the best joomla! site map extension............
Ease of use
simple and intuitive.................................................................
Support
Support is excellent and very fast. I had issue with cron job, but solution was found.
Documentation
Value for money
ok...................................................................................
I used this to: site map for google.................................................................
Functionality
It does what its suppose to do - easily make a site map...and more.
Ease of use
I just watched the video tutorials, and was up and running after about 30 minutes.
Support
My email and replies got answered so quickly. I was able to finish installation to experimenting with the functions in one sitting.
Documentation
Value for money
Good value. For something easy to learn and use, it is worth it.
I used this to: Easily making site maps and do site updates...and search site submissions.

Muchas caracteristicas



Posted on 28 May 2021
Functionality
Tiene muchas funciones que no encuentras en otras extensiones, por ejemplo fue muy util poder editar el sitemap a mi antojo.
Ease of use
Es facil de usar la verdad no se requiere mucha indagación, las opciones son claras
Support
el soporte es muy bueno, responden todos los correos electrónicos y despejan las dudas con premura eso es importante. Me pareció bueno
Documentation
Tiene suficiente documentación, sin embargo no fue necesario leerlo todo ya que es fácil de entender sus funcionalidades.
Value for money
Vale la pena el costo es menor que el de otras extensiones similares y ofrece mas características .
I used this to: La use para generar el sitemap de mi sitio web , limpiar las url inutiles y organizar mucho mejor la estructura del sitio para mejorar el SEO

Very Sad



Posted on 16 April 2021
Functionality
When trying to buy the Pro version I found it can no longer be bought in the UK.
Ease of use
When trying to buy the Pro version I found it can no longer be bought in the UK.
Support
When trying to buy the Pro version I found it can no longer be bought in the UK.
Documentation
When trying to buy the Pro version I found it can no longer be bought in the UK.
Value for money
When trying to buy the Pro version I found it can no longer be bought in the UK.
I used this to: After using the free and paid version of this extension the developers have now blocked the UK from buying the extension, never mind I'll spend my money elsewhere.
Owner's reply: Hi Jeff,
we are sorry to hear you are disappointed. Nevertheless we ask your to remove this review:
It does not comment the quality of our extension, our documentation nor our support.
Thanks in advance!
Aimy Extensions Team
Functionality
Does all it claims it does. One xml version for crawlers, others, e.g. DE/EN, to produce html customized sitemaps would make it perfect.
Ease of use
All standard features easy and self explaining. Support answered my questions for more complex issues (e.g. debug runs) instantly.
Support
Superior support, got almost instantly perfect answers. For a feature I needed I even got a release candidate that did exactly that.
Documentation
Not really necessary with such perfect support. But I watched the videos first.
Value for money
Very good. Especially with the superb support. Has all necessary features and the team plans to add some missing ones (see functionality).
I used this to: A rather large multi-lingual non-profit web site for shark protection.
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Aimy Sitemap PRO

Version:
34.0
Developer:
Aimy Extensions
Last updated:
Mar 18 2024
17 hours ago
Date added:
Jun 08 2015
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Paid download
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Compatibility:
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