What is Sitemap Generator?

A sitemap generator creates a properly formatted XML sitemap file that tells search engines about the pages on your website. This helps search engine crawlers discover and index your content more efficiently, improving your site's SEO performance.

The generator builds a sitemap.xml that follows the sitemaps.org 0.9 schema with <loc>, <lastmod>, <changefreq>, and <priority> tags. Google reads up to 50,000 URLs per file at a 50 MB uncompressed limit, so larger sites split into multiple sitemaps referenced from a sitemap index. The XML is escaped automatically so query strings with ampersands won't break parsing.

How to use

1. Enter your website URLs one per line, or paste a list of URLs from your site.
2. Set the change frequency and priority for each URL to guide search engine crawling behavior.
3. Click Generate to create your XML sitemap, then download the sitemap.xml file to upload to your server root.

When to use

• Launching a new site or section so Google indexes the pages within hours, not weeks.
• Bulk-listing legacy URLs after a migration so old PageRank flows to the new paths.
• Hosting on a static service that doesn't auto-generate sitemap.xml (plain HTML, GitHub Pages).

Result

You have a blog with 50 posts and want search engines to find them all. Paste your URLs, set blog posts to weekly update frequency with 0.8 priority, and your homepage to daily with 1.0 priority. Download the sitemap.xml and upload it to your-domain.com/sitemap.xml.

FAQ

Does <priority> actually affect my Google ranking?

No. Google has said publicly it ignores the priority value when deciding ranking. Priority only hints at relative importance within your own site, which crawlers may use to schedule revisits.

How often should I update changefreq for blog posts vs. product pages?

Blog archives that rarely change can use monthly. Active product pages or news feeds that update daily should use daily or weekly. Setting always for static content wastes crawl budget and Google often overrides it.

Where do I upload my sitemap.xml after downloading it?

Place the file at the root of your domain (https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml) and add the line 'Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml' to robots.txt. Then submit the URL inside Google Search Console under Sitemaps.

Do I need a sitemap if my site is small and well-linked?

Technically no — Google can find pages through internal links. But sitemaps help when pages are deep, orphaned, or recently published, and they let Search Console show indexing errors per URL, which makes debugging much easier.

What's the maximum number of URLs in one sitemap?

50,000 URLs or 50 MB uncompressed, whichever comes first. For larger sites, generate multiple sitemaps and combine them into a sitemap index file that references each child. Google accepts up to 500 sitemaps per index.

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