Using the crawling engine I created for getPHOTO() I was able to quickly put together a program that really simplifies the whole sitemap.xml process.

Overview

Sitemap++ works by crawling your website for internal links (using your project's settings) and creating, saving & posting the resulting sitemap.xml file to your server (uploading to a server is optional).

Highlights:

• Automatically crawls your website.
• Easy to modify link properties.
• Rescan to add new links or overwrite existing links.
• QuickLinks help you submit and update your sitemap to Google, Bing, Yahoo & Ask.
• Powerful crawling engine allows you to specify page to exclude (and even keyword sequences too).
• Unlimited Sitemap projects - manage multiple websites.
• and more...

Tip:

Nearly all search engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo!) require you to create an account using their respective webmaster tools.  This is a very important step because they need you to verify you are the owner of your website (by placing a file or embedding an META tag onto your primary page).  Once verified you can use their tools to upload (submit) your sitemap (first time).

NOTE:  You only need to submit (and validate) your sitemap once.  You can then use the sitemap ping HTTP menu links directly from Sitemap++.

Enjoy!