Build a fully standards-compliant XML sitemap for Google, Bing, and other search engines. Add unlimited URLs, crawl your site automatically, and generate index files.
A well-structured XML sitemap is the most reliable way to tell Google and Bing about all the pages on your website, ensuring complete and rapid indexing of your content.
Don't want to add URLs manually? Use our built-in auto-crawler to scan your website and automatically generate a complete sitemap tree in seconds.
Boost your visibility in Google Image Search by attaching images directly to your sitemap URLs, utilizing the official Google image sitemap extension namespaces.
An XML Sitemap is a crucial technical SEO asset. It acts as a roadmap of your website that leads search engines directly to all your important pages. Without a sitemap, crawlers might miss deeply nested pages or newly published content.
Search engines like Google use automated bots to crawl the web. While they can follow standard HTML links, an XML sitemap guarantees they find everything—even pages that aren't linked anywhere else. Furthermore, sitemaps allow you to provide valuable metadata:
Using our Advanced XML Sitemap Generator is easy. You can either use the Auto-Crawl feature to have our bot scan your site, or you can paste your URLs using Bulk Import. Once your sitemap is generated, download the sitemap.xml file and upload it to the root directory of your website (e.g., https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml).
Finally, log into Google Search Console and submit the URL of your new sitemap to accelerate indexing.
According to the official sitemaps.org protocol, a single XML sitemap can contain up to 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 50MB uncompressed. If your site exceeds these limits, you must split your URLs across multiple sitemap files and link them together using a Sitemap Index file.
Google has officially stated that they mostly ignore the <priority> and <changefreq> tags, relying instead on their own algorithms to determine crawl frequency. However, the <lastmod> tag is highly respected and is critical for getting updated content re-indexed quickly.
No. Your XML sitemap should only contain 100% canonical, indexable URLs returning a 200 OK status code. Do not include URLs that have noindex tags, are redirected (301/302), or point to alternate canonical versions.
A Sitemap Index is essentially a "sitemap of sitemaps." It is used when you have multiple XML sitemap files (e.g., one for posts, one for products). You submit the Sitemap Index to Google Search Console, and it points Google to all the individual sitemap files.
