XML Sitemap Generator

A sitemap is a discovery aid, not a ranking factor: it tells crawlers which URLs exist, but it does not guarantee they will be indexed. The priority and changefreq values are hints that Google has said it largely ignores, so do not agonise over them — an accurate lastmod is far more useful, and only if you keep it honest. One file holds up to 50,000 URLs and 50 MB uncompressed; beyond that you split the list and reference the parts from a sitemap index. Always list canonical URLs only, and never include pages blocked by robots.txt or carrying a noindex tag, because those send crawlers contradictory signals.

Each URL becomes a <url> element containing a required <loc> plus the optional <lastmod>, <changefreq> and <priority> children, all wrapped in a <urlset> that declares the sitemaps.org 0.9 namespace.

Builds a single sitemap file, not a sitemap index, so lists beyond 50,000 URLs must be split manually. It cannot crawl your site to discover URLs — you supply the list — and it does not verify that each URL returns 200 or is free of a noindex tag.

Four URLs — the homepage, an about page at priority 0.6, a blog at 0.8 weekly and a contact page — produce a 4-entry sitemap of roughly 700 bytes, ready to upload as sitemap.xml.

1. Paste your URLs, one per line.
2. Optionally add a priority and change frequency after a pipe character.
3. Pick the defaults for any URL you did not annotate.
4. Download sitemap.xml, upload it to your site root and submit it in Search Console.

• Including URLs that redirect, 404 or carry a noindex tag.
• Listing both http and https or www and non-www versions of the same page.
• Setting every page to priority 1.0, which conveys no information at all.
• Forgetting to reference the sitemap from robots.txt after uploading it.

The XML Sitemap Generator turns a plain list of URLs into a valid sitemap.xml following the sitemaps.org 0.9 protocol. It removes duplicates, adds the https:// prefix to bare domains, escapes special characters properly and lets you set a priority and change frequency either globally or per URL.

Owners of small and static sites, developers and anyone whose CMS does not generate a sitemap automatically.

• Produces standards-compliant XML that validates against the sitemaps.org schema.
• Removes duplicate URLs and skips malformed lines automatically.
• Per-URL priority and change frequency, not just one global setting.
• Escapes ampersands and quotes so query-string URLs do not break the file.

• Creating a sitemap for a hand-built or static HTML site.
• Submitting a fresh list of URLs to Google Search Console after a migration.
• Building a supplementary sitemap for pages your CMS leaves out.
• Giving a crawler a clean list of canonical URLs.