Sitemap Generator Online

About the XML Sitemap Generator

An XML Sitemap is a file that tells search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo about the pages on your website — their structure, priority, and how often they are updated. Our free Sitemap Generator creates a standards-compliant sitemap.xml file you can submit directly to Google Search Console.

Why Every Website Needs a Sitemap

Faster Indexing When you publish a new page, Google's crawlers may take days or weeks to discover it naturally. A sitemap gives Google a direct roadmap, dramatically speeding up indexing.

Complete Coverage Large websites often have pages that are poorly linked internally. These "orphan pages" may never be discovered by crawlers without a sitemap.

Priority Signals Sitemaps let you specify the <priority> of each page (0.1 to 1.0), signaling to search engines which pages are most important on your site.

Change Frequency The <changefreq> tag tells crawlers how often a page is updated — daily, weekly, monthly — so they know when to re-crawl.

Sitemap XML Structure

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-01</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/about</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>

How to Submit Your Sitemap to Google

1. Generate your sitemap using this tool
2. Save it as sitemap.xml in your website's root folder
3. Open Google Search Console
4. Go to Sitemaps in the left menu
5. Enter sitemap.xml and click Submit

Google will then crawl and index your pages based on the sitemap.

Sitemap Best Practices

• Include only canonical URLs — no duplicate or redirect URLs
• Keep sitemaps under 50,000 URLs and 50MB (use sitemap index files for larger sites)
• Update your sitemap whenever you add or remove pages
• Make sure all URLs in the sitemap return HTTP 200 status