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 to it directly from the backend using the IndexNow protocol (via plugin Aimy IndexNow PRO)
  • Integrated robots.txt editor.

Have a look at additional features in the PRO version of Aimy Sitemap!

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.

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.

A Powerfull SEO Tool



Posted on 24 September 2024
Functionality
Makes XML sitemaps easy. Finds all pages. Works with other Joomla extensions without extra plugins.
Ease of use
Pretty simple to set up and use. Took me a bit to figure out all the options, but now it's a breeze. Interface is clear.
Support
Didn't need help yet, but seems good. User manual covers everything.
Documentation
Great user manual on their site. Explains everything from basic setup to advanced features.
I used this to: Boosting my site's SEO and finding broken links. Really useful for big sites with lots of pages. Saves tons of time.
Functionality
Pretty nice small component for sitemaps. I used it for experiment with traditions(.)wedding website. It found 404 pages and generate sitema
Ease of use
all clean and easy to use. nothing special but it have done what it should
I used this to: I used it for experiment with traditions(.)wedding website. It found 404 pages and generate sitemap. It found 404 pages and generate sitemap pretty quick. It have limits in 50 pages but for pet projects its enough
Functionality
Only allowed 50 URLS in the free version. Only allowed 50 URLS in the free version.
Ease of use
Seems very easy!
Seems very easy!
Seems very easy!
Seems very easy!
Seems very easy!
Seems very easy!
Seems very easy!
I used this to: Deleted it... Free is not really free.
Deleted it... Free is not really free.
Deleted it... Free is not really free.
Owner's reply: Hi Robert,
the limit is just for https-ONLY sites and it is communicated on the website (feature list, first entry).

The crawl is done completely without a limit. So you may use Aimy Sitemap for your sitemap.xml if you reduce entries (for example do not add images).
With these options a lot of websites and setups can use this free sitemap extensions with a its nice features. If you have a larger website - yes - you
would have to invest to use this extension and support our development.

Best free sitemap



Posted on 02 January 2023
Functionality
Sitemap XML for Google Search Console Sitemap XML for Google Search Console
Ease of use
Very easy to use, crawl and ready Very easy to use, crawl and ready
Support
Documentation
I used this to: Index Google Search Console Index Google Search Console Index Google Search Console

Good



Posted on 16 October 2022
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Functionality
easy and effective. Love the 'inform search engines' functionality. Found some dead links in the process.
Ease of use
A bundle of functions, so you have to check it out before you see how it works.
Support
I did not use support, but the documentation is ok. Why do I have to grade something i have no experience with?
Documentation
The documentation is written very good and easy to understand. I comes up after installing the component.
I used this to: i use this for submitting sitemaps to google bing and yahoo search engines
Functionality
Ottimo. Ti crea proprio tutte le site map (compreso tutte le immagini).
Ease of use
Molto semplice da usare. Poi con i video tutorial è molto facile apprendere l'utilizzo
Support
Supporto efficacissimo. Sono riuscito a risolvere problemi che non riuscivo a fare da solo
Documentation
Ottima documentazione. In più ci sono alcuni video che ti guidano passo passo su ciò che devi fare per creare la tua sitemap
I used this to: Utilizzo questa estenzione per incrementare le visite al mio sito amatoriale
Functionality
As promissed in documentation. In general all functional and all works :)
Ease of use
Very nice :) - this is actually greatest advanage of Aimy over other sitemaps - it is really simple.
Support
On one hand no ticket system and support is done thru email on other hand the staff is really friendly and helpful.
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I used this to: I do not use it currently. It turned out that it does not read Java links and after buying I asked for refound. It was granted promtply and without doing any problems.

Does not work for me



Posted on 02 August 2019
Functionality
It's absolutely useless for https site; and the description didn't even mention that. I wasted my precious time for this piece of nothing.
Ease of use
Every time to generate a map I should turn off https, change server config and bypass Cloudflare. Much easier is to write sitemap by myself.
Support
Support is when you support your customers, literally; not when you try to squeeze every buck from them and deceive them.
Documentation
I used this to: No way. "I use this for" should be longer than 64 characters. "I use this for" should be longer than 64 characters. "I use this for" should be longer than 64 characters. Oh my.
Owner's reply: Hi Alan,

thanks for your feedback on the usage of https-only websites - it helps making our extensions even better.

As of version 26 of Aimy Sitemap https-only websites are supported in the free of charge version as well. Just the amount of entries in the XML sitemap is limited to 50 entries.

So, do you want to give it a try on your website once more?

it makes no sense now



Posted on 26 July 2019
Functionality
HTTPS only in the paid version. In modern realities, the free version is meaningless.
Ease of use
Pretty simple, albeit a little childish. Many decorations in the design.
I used this to: I use this for my Joomla sites. For what else. Weird question.
Owner's reply: Hi Vitalii,

thanks for your feedback. You are right, there are more and more https-only websites nowadays. So we decided to support https-only websites in the free of charge version as well.

We hope you give a second try on your website. But please note that the amount of entries in the XML sitemap is limited to 50 entries.
If you have a larger website, unlimited support is granted in the PRO version. A crawl is possible in any case for testing purposes.
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Aimy Sitemap

Version:
35.2
Developer:
Aimy Extensions
Last updated:
Nov 12 2024
4 weeks ago
Date added:
Feb 24 2015
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Related extension :
Aimy Sitemap PRO
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Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5
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