About Sitemap.xml Generator
Comprehensive Overview
The Sitemap.xml Generator creates a properly formatted XML sitemap for your website following the sitemaps.org protocol. A sitemap helps search engines discover, crawl, and index your pages more efficiently. Simply enter your URLs (up to 100) and configure optional metadata like priority, change frequency, and last modified date.
Key Features
- Valid XML Output — Generates sitemaps that comply with the sitemap 0.9 protocol, accepted by Google, Bing, Yahoo, and all major search engines.
- Configurable Metadata — Set default change frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), priority (0.0–1.0), and optionally include today's date as the last modified timestamp.
- Bulk URL Input — Enter up to 100 URLs, one per line. Invalid URLs are automatically filtered.
- XML Entity Escaping — Special characters in URLs (
&,<,>, quotes) are properly escaped for valid XML.
How to Use
- Enter your website URLs in the text area, one per line.
- Set the default change frequency and priority for all URLs.
- Optionally check "Include last modified date" to add today's date.
- Click Process to generate the sitemap XML. Copy and save it as
sitemap.xmlin your website root.
Sitemap Best Practices
- Placement — Save as
sitemap.xmlin your domain root:https://example.com/sitemap.xml - robots.txt — Add
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xmlto your robots.txt file. - Search Console — Submit your sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools for faster indexing.
- Priority — Use 1.0 for the homepage, 0.8 for important pages, 0.5 for standard pages. Priority is relative to your own site only.
- Size Limits — A single sitemap can contain up to 50,000 URLs and must be under 50 MB uncompressed. For larger sites, use a sitemap index file.