I did try the free version of XML-Sitemap generator but not V5.3 yet. The free version results were not encouraging that is why I am asking.
I entered [ External links are visible to forum administrators only ] - which should have been the same as putting a link on the homepage.
BTW here is the content of free version XML and it only picked up 2 of the launch pages - non of the virtual pages?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]"
xmlns:xsi="[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]"
xsi:schemaLocation="[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]
[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]">
<!-- created with Free Online Sitemap Generator
www.xml-sitemaps.com -->
<url>
<loc>[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]</loc>
</url>
<url>
<loc>[ External links are visible to forum administrators only ]</loc>
</url>
</urlset>
My understanding is that the free version has a limit of 500 and the paid version has more. I was hoping the free version would crawl at least 500 virtual pages and stop.