Hermetic Sitemap Builder

This program scans files in a specified folder (on your local hard disk), and files in selected subfolders, and generates either (i) an HTML sitemap to assist readers of your website to navigate or (ii) an XML Sitemap to assist search engines to index your website. For XML Sitemaps, automatic setting of the change-Frequency and priority tags is supported. The original method used by search engines to index a website was to start at the home PaGE and follow links to other pages on the site. But as websites became more Complex not all files on the site could be reached in this way, and this motivated search engine providers to devise a way to help search engines to index websites. The result was the Sitemap protocol (introduced by Google in 2005). A Sitemap (with a capital `S` to distinguish them from HTML sitemaps) is an XML file which allows a Website Manager to provide information about the files on a website, most importantly, the URL for each file and the date of its last modification (and also how often the file changes and how important it is in relation to other files on the website). A Sitemap is placed on a website with a pointer to it from a Robots.txt file so that a search engine, visiting that website, knows where to find it.