Url Rewrites In Google Sitmap

Does anyone know how to create a google sitemap that will include your ISAPI rewrite urls as at the moment the sitemap creator i am using on displays the dynamic url and does not follow the 301 redirect that takes it to the static url.

Thanks

First off how large is the site?

If the site is around a couple hundred pages I would not suggest using a site map at all. After all, with the advanced search engine algorithms now days they are good at crawling what ever link they can follow from your home page and beyond. General rule of thumb is if a crawler is indeed indexing your site and pages, what ever pages were not indexed by them automatically should most likely not be indexed anyway. The search engine will alone index all the pertinent pages it is able to follow on its own. The only time I would suggest using a sitemap.xml or .html is if the site is a couple 1000 pages deep and even then I would stray away from automated sitemap generating programs as search engines are quickly becoming unfriendly to any and all sites that have signs of using anything automated.

I disagree.

I don't think there is a limit at which you should not use a sitemap. Its just good practice to use both a static sitemap and an HTML sitemap.

It sounds very much like this is a dynamic site which needs rewritted URLs to be found so using an XML sitemap is a good way to ensure that the crawler actually finds it.

NB: The search engine algorithm has nothing to do with its ability to crawl certain pages.

I would look at this in two ways

1) Use a seperate program, say a PHP function to take the auto generated sitemap and rewrite any URLs that it can find that fit the criteria to the same criteria you use to do your URL rewrites.

2) The other option would be to modify the code of the automated sitemap generator its self.

This could get a little bit tricky but its perfectly possible to do.

You need to think about how you will use this system and what flexibility and functionality you are looking for, weigh up the pros and cons and come up with something that fits what you want to do.