Google Sitemaps

Question

I am wondering what is the best way to handle google sitemaps
using coldfusion. I know it could be created by hand but the
obviously problem is that every time i updated or added a page, i
would have to go edit the sitemap file, and realistically i will
often forget and then the sitemap file will inevitably become out
of date quickly. so i am thinking it would be nice to have a
template that is scheduled to run every night or something, that
will go and scan the files on my site and then generate the sitemap
file. so that way when i update or add pages i don't have to worry
about doing anything because i know that at the next scheduled
interval, the sitemap will automatically be regenerated.
does that sound reasonable or are there better ways to do
this?
and with that said, does such a template, custom tag, cfc...
already exist?

Answer 1

Writing a script that scans your site's directory would not
be that difficult. You begin to get more complicated if your site
has multiple subdirectories to deal with.
But if your site is like a lot of mine, there are test.cfm,
tryThis.cfm, etc.cfm files hanging around. (I know, not good
housekeeping, but that's just the way it is.) You don't want these
appearing in your site map. So you have shifted the responsibility
from "remember to update the site map" to "remember to get rid of
those test files."