heh..
for the bloggers, sure.. a new post is pinged out to listening servers. but, i'm not a blogger (anymore), so sitemap serves me well.
you can write/ping/get indexed.. cool, not shooting that down, but sitemap was not created for that sole purpose.
with sitemap, yeah.. i can dynamically say:
- this is how my entire website is mapped out (with additions and deletions).
- don't try to index these files
- definitely index these files
- frequency/priority of slurping at the url level
- create multiple sitemaps within a single site (if necessary)
and if you're nifty with some coding skills, create a script that builds a sitemap from data input and submit an entire sitemap at site launch.. nothing but options!
yeah, i'm a sitemap *cheerleader*
peace