sitemap generator counts links as pages?

[KC]

Hello

I tried your online sitemap gen but it went over the 500 page mark. Fair enough, I think the unlimited version is a bargain but I'm concerned about how it counts pages. My site is in reality only a couple hundred pages but it seems that sitemap gen is counting " links" as pages. My site is more or less an archive and I have numerous links on each page which point to various spots on the same page. ie: long lists of names "as links" pointing to info on each name. Firstly, it does not seem to be a fair way of counting pages, but more importantly it seems to me Google might find a sitemap with dozens upon dozens of links which point to the same page as some sort of spam. Am I misunderstanding  something here?

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

if you mean links like:
[ External links are visible to logged in users only ]
[ External links are visible to logged in users only ]
[ External links are visible to logged in users only ]

then no - all of them are counted as a single URL:
[ External links are visible to logged in users only ]

[KC]

Yes, that was what I meant. If it doesn't count these links then I am not sure what is happening, I certainly don't have over 500 pages. Wish I had saved the terminated output for review. I'll try the online gen again and pay closer attention to the pages it is counting.

Thanks

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Yes, sure. Just check the resulting sitemap file and see if there is an URL that doesn't really exist at your site.