Sitemap generator which only includes canonical urls
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Does anyone know of a 3rd party sitemap generator that will only include the canonical url's? Creating a sitemap with geo and sorting based parameters isn't the most ideal way to generate sitemaps. Please let me know if anyone has any ideas. Mind you we have hundreds of thousands of indexed url's and this can't be done with a simple text editor.
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You can use Screaming Frog for this (and much more). It's not free but is great tool to check the SEO health of your site as well.
Trial is free (up to 500 url's).
To generate the sitemap - crawl your site with following settings:
Configuration > Spider > Advanced tab: select:- always follow redirects
- respect noindex
- respect canonical
After crawl - under the Sitemaps you can create the XML & image sitemaps.
Dirk
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