I've created yet another plugin for the ColdFusion Mango Blog package. Last night I was suppose to be doing one thing and my ADD kicked in and I did this for some reason.

This new Site Map Generator Plugin will create a sitemap.xml document in your blog's root directory. Sitemaps are supported by search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask.com and Moreover.com and a few more I'm sure at least.

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site. -SiteMaps.org

With this plugin, your sitemap.xml will be updated on post and page creation and  update events. All of the work is done in a low priority cfthread just in case you have thousands of posts and hundreds of pages. A settings page is included with this plugin, but is nothing more than a pretty CFDump of your XML file for your verification.

For the next version if requested I may add some more options to the settings page to give you customization on priority per item type and the likes. However I'm pretty sure everyone will be happy with my default prioritization. Right now I map out the index, rss feed, atom feed, each page and each post. I decided to leave out the category viewes as it seemed redundant and I don't think adding them will give you any search engine placement boosts...

Download the ZIP file or view my SVN repository