As a big fan of Wordpress, I use two plugin solutions. Google XML Sitemaps to generate the sitemap and Dagon Design Sitemap Generator that generates a sitemap from the XML. Doing this, it's all automated.
I still have the link to the sitemap in the footer. More of a "double check" factor for the search bots.
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I still have the link to the sitemap in the footer. More of a "double check" factor for the search bots.