How Can I Create an XML to Create a Menu?

Who to create XML sitemap exclude URL parameter in Xenu's Link Sleuth?

• I have website which is having 3000+ article/links posted on it. And just week ago it's been redesign and now I've been wondering to create latest XML sitemap for the same. So problem just that when I run the URL in Xenu's Link Sleuth to fetch my website links, its crawling 9000+ links with adding URL Parameter, like "?Action=" and all. So how can I skip this URLs with addition parameter and just get crawl canonical URLs to create light weight XML sitemap. Thanks in Advance.

• Answer:

  You need to download the wildcard-enabled version of Xenu and use wildcards to eliminate these URLs in the initial crawl dialog box (Exclude URLs). In your example, you'd just go to the Exclude URLs section of the dialog and enter "*?Action=*" (no quotes) and press Add. It works great. You can add multiple rules to exclude different kinds of URL parameters. Note that it IS case-sensitive and you cannot use any other wildcards (like ? for single characters) or regex. See question 36 here for the download link. It's free! http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html#FAQ