Sitemap Generator

Tell search engines which pages you have

A sitemap (sitemap.xml) lists the pages on your site for search engines. New sites and pages with few links can take a long time to be discovered; submitting a sitemap in Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools helps them get crawled faster and more completely. Paste your URLs and this tool builds a sitemap in the standard format (sitemaps.org 0.9).

URL cleanup

• Mix full URLs (https://…) and paths (/about); paths get the site address prepended.
• Duplicates are kept once, and URLs from other domains and invalid lines are dropped — a sitemap may only list URLs on your own domain.
• “Remove ?query parameters” strips tracking tails like ?ref=… so only canonical URLs remain.
• Non-ASCII paths are percent-encoded and special characters like & are escaped for XML.

Optional fields

lastmod helps search engines decide when to recrawl. It's only meaningful if it reflects real content changes, so don't stamp today's date on every page every time. Google says it largely ignores changefreq and priority, but other search engines may read them. One file can hold 50,000 URLs or 50 MB; you'll be warned if you exceed that.

Upload the file to your site's root as sitemap.xml, add the “Sitemap:” line to robots.txt, and submit it in Search Console. Prepare page titles and descriptions with Meta Tag Generator. Your URL list stays on your device.

Sources

• sitemaps.org — Sitemap protocol
• Google Search Central — Build and submit a sitemap