The Comprehensive Octopus.do Alternative for SEO Professionals

Octopus.do popularized the "Visual Sitemap" for UX designers. It is a beautiful tool for quickly sketching out what a website should look like. But for an SEO, purely visual tools are dangerous.

The problem is the drift between the design and the reality. You might draw a perfect silo structure in Octopus.do, but once the developers build it, did they actually implement the internal links? Did they use the correct canonical tags?

Octopus.do cannot tell you. It doesn't crawl. It just draws.

ViSitemap bridges this gap. Yes, you can draw new sitemaps from scratch (just like Octopus.do). But you can also crawl the live site to see what is actually there.

This allows for "Gap Analysis":

1. Import your live site into ViSitemap.
2. Compare it to your planned structure.
3. Visually spot the missing links or incorrect hierarchy.

For a Technical SEO offering "Done-For-You" services, this capability is non-negotiable.

Octopus.do excels at "Content Planning"—mapping out page blocks and estimating word counts. ViSitemap focuses on "Technical Auditing".

While we allow you to plan content, our features go deeper. We verify Open Graph tags, check for Redirect Loops, and validate Schema Markup. These are critical ranking factors that a pure design tool ignores.

If you are building a website that needs to rank, you need a tool that understands Google, not just color palettes.

Most design tools charge a hefty monthly subscription for "Team Features". ViSitemap offers a generous free tier because we believe sitemapping is a fundamental utility. Our Pro plans are designed for agencies who need to generate white-label PDF reports for clients.

Stop paying for a drawing tool when you could be paying for an Audit tool that also draws.