Create a complete XML sitemap for your website. Help search engines discover and index all your pages faster with properly formatted sitemaps including priorities and change frequencies.
Start by entering your website's domain name. Then add all the pages you want included in the sitemap with their URLs, last modified dates, and priorities.
Set priority (0.1-1.0) for each page to indicate importance. Set change frequency (daily, weekly, monthly) to tell search engines how often pages update.
Generate your XML sitemap, download it, and upload it to your website's root directory. Then submit the sitemap URL to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
When launching a new site, a sitemap helps search engines discover all your pages immediately. Without one, Google may take weeks to find and index deep pages on a new domain.
News sites, blogs, and e-commerce stores with hundreds or thousands of pages need sitemaps. They ensure important pages get crawled regularly and new content is discovered quickly.
Online stores with constantly changing inventory use sitemaps to alert search engines about new products, discontinued items, and updated pricing. This keeps search results current.
Sites with content in multiple languages use sitemaps to indicate language versions of each page. This helps search engines serve the right language version to users in different regions.
Add, remove, and configure pages with an intuitive grid interface. Set URLs, dates, priorities, and change frequencies without writing any XML code.
One-click adds common pages like Home, About, Contact, and Blog. Start with a template and customize it to match your site structure.
Generates Google-compliant XML sitemaps that follow the Sitemaps 0.9 protocol. No errors, no warnings -- just valid sitemaps that search engines can parse.
Download your sitemap as a .xml file ready to upload. Copy-paste option for quick integration. Works with all major CMS platforms and hosting providers.
An XML sitemap is a file that lists all the important pages on your website in a structured format that search engines can easily read. It provides metadata about each URL, including when it was last modified, how often it changes, and its relative importance. Search engines use sitemaps to discover and crawl pages more efficiently, especially for large websites or sites with poor internal linking.
While a sitemap is most critical for large sites (1,000+ pages), even small sites benefit from one. Sitemaps help search engines discover pages that might not be linked from your homepage or navigation. For small sites with strong internal linking, a sitemap is less critical but still recommended. Google states that sitemaps can help with any size site, and the effort to create one is minimal with our generator.
Upload your sitemap.xml file to the root directory of your website (e.g., https://example.com/sitemap.xml). After uploading, submit the sitemap URL to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. You should also reference your sitemap in your robots.txt file by adding a line like "Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml" to help search engines find it automatically.
Priority is a value from 0.1 to 1.0 that indicates the relative importance of a page compared to other pages on your site. It helps search engines decide which pages to crawl first. A priority of 1.0 marks your most important pages (like the homepage), while 0.3 might be used for less critical pages. Note: Google has stated they largely ignore the priority tag, but it is still part of the sitemap protocol and can be useful for other search engines.
Update your sitemap whenever you add new pages, remove pages, or significantly modify existing content. For dynamic sites with CMS platforms, consider using auto-generating sitemap plugins that update automatically. At minimum, review your sitemap monthly. If you publish content daily, your sitemap should reflect that. Always update the last modified dates when you make substantial changes to page content.
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