Most people don’t realise it but there is a standard out there for reporting to various search engines such as Google and Yahoo what pages they should and should not index, including the ability to give weight (importance) to individual pages. In Drupal a module called XML Sitemap has always handled this and I’m happy to say that today it has finally reached version 1.0 for Drupal 6.
Even though XML Sitemaps is a contributed module everyone uses it and I really can’t imagine a scenario where this module wouldn’t be wanted. We’ve been quietly twisting our panties at having to use a development version for so long in fear that if we said something to upset the module maintainer he’d drop the project leaving it in limbo. It has only been the organisation of some very respected members of the Drupal community who stepped in after seeing the mess it had become that has seen it reach 1.0.
Thanks for helping spread the good news (finally) about the module. And just to note, we also have the 2.0 rewrite coming fast around the corner as well.