Okey dokey, I did some research on sitemap generation.
The most useful page around for this kind of thing seems to be here:
http://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators
There are of course many free online sitemap generating services but the trick is to find one that we can setup an automated process with. The one system that clearly advertised this is linked to on google’s sitemap generation page is: http://www.automapit.com/. There website doesn’t look all that hot but all they are doing is generating an xml file so who knows they could very well do that just fine. They charge $1 an update, so it wouldn’t be real time (most of the tools including the php tool you previously mentioned aren’t) but depending on how often you want the site updated that solution could be plenty cheap, especially if you consider the cost of hours of implementation time for other solutions. They say they automatically upload the sitemap file, which makes for an automated process which would be great, but they probably need an ftp login though, which doesn’t sound all that security happy to me. It’s possible we might be able to setup permissions for their user in such a way as to minimize risk but I’m not 100% sure about that. Then there’s these guys: http://www.ittoolcase.com/en/SitemapGen/ but it’d looks like you’d have to upload the sitemaps yourself because they’d email them to you. So there’s the cost involved of that last manual step of uploading the xml file. Though a very short steps it makes for a process which is not fully automated which I imagine isn’t ideal.
If you have a wordpress blog or wordpress based site, you are in luck because you can use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ This one automatically updates anytime you add or remove pages or posts.
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