XML Sitemap is a very important WordPress Plugin, that you will not want to miss. Search Engines will fail to create a perfect sitemap for your website. The reason is that search engine crawler may not frequently crawl on your site and the crawl duration might not be enough to cover your entire website. To simply this issue , XML Sitemap Plugins has been developed. Not matter which plaatform are you in either WordPress or Drupal or even a normal HTML website, you need to have a Sitemap tool that can do the job better.
Some Features of XML Sitemaps
Sitemap Submission to Google
Sitemap Submission to Yahoo
Sitemap Submission to Bing
Sitemap Submission to ASK
Priority Selection for Sitemap
Exclusion of a Particular Category or Pages
Both Automatic and Manual Submission to Search Engines
Better listing on search engine
Some Bugs on XML Sitemaps
“XML Parsing Error Not Well Formed”
Here is one of the problem that I had for a long time but , just now noticed it. The sitemap.xml file failed to load , with the above given error description. The reason for this turned out to be my .htaccess file. There were few privileges that conflicted with the Google Sitemap Plugin, Removing these lines, fixed the XML problem.
Click here to Download Google XML Sitemap
Good for me that my xml sitemap page is free from any parse errors.