Sites on the internet are daily spidered by search engines. These search engines crawl over your site and gather information to build their search indexes. The Search Engine Sitemap generator is a tool that helps these search engines by building index files that contain all the public content on your site. By publishing these indexes, you can help search engines to quickly discover new content on your site and help them discover content islands in your site. Content islands are public items that are not linked to from within in your site and are therefore not discoverable for search engines that crawl your site.

The index files that are built by the Search Engine Sitemap generator conform to the open standard published on www.sitemaps.org which is supported by all major search engines such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

Furthermore, after generating the index files the Search Engine Sitemap generator has the ability to ping search engines to inform them of the fact that a new sitemap has been generated, thereby reducing the time needed by a search engine to discover new content on your site.