Sitemap Generator
Create valid XML sitemaps for your website with custom priority, frequency, and last modified settings
How to Use the Sitemap Generator
- Type or paste your website URLs into the input area, one URL per line, or add them individually with custom settings.
- Configure priority, change frequency, and last modified date for each URL or use bulk defaults for all entries.
- Press the Generate Sitemap button to create a properly formatted XML sitemap from your URL list.
- Review the generated XML sitemap code in the preview area to verify all URLs and settings are correct.
- Download the sitemap.xml file and upload it to your website root directory, then submit it to Google Search Console.
Key Features
Bulk & Individual Entry
Paste dozens of URLs at once in bulk mode, or add them one by one with custom priority and frequency settings.
Full XML Control
Set priority (0.0-1.0), change frequency, and last modified date for every URL in your sitemap individually.
Valid XML Output
Generates sitemaps that comply with the sitemap protocol 0.9 standard accepted by Google, Bing, and all major search engines.
Instant Download
Download the generated sitemap as a ready-to-upload sitemap.xml file with a single click. No email or account required.
Complete Privacy
All processing happens in your browser. Your URLs and website structure are never sent to any server or stored anywhere.
URL Validation
Automatically validates URL format, removes duplicates, and ensures every entry has proper https:// or http:// prefix.
How XML Sitemaps Work
An XML sitemap is a structured file that tells search engines which pages on your website exist and provides metadata about each page. Here is the basic structure:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>https://example.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2025-01-24</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
</urlset><loc> â The full URL of the page. This is the only required element. Must include the protocol (https://).
<lastmod> â The date when the page was last modified, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Helps search engines know when to re-crawl.
<changefreq> â How often the page content changes: always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or never. This is a hint, not a directive.
<priority> â A value from 0.0 to 1.0 indicating the relative importance of this page compared to other pages on your site. Default is 0.5.
Practical Examples
đŽđŗ Arjun from Delhi â New E-Commerce Store
Arjun launched a Shopify store with 150 product pages, 8 category pages, and 5 informational pages. After two weeks, Google had only indexed 23 pages. He needed a sitemap to help Google discover the rest.
He pasted all 163 URLs, set products to priority 0.8 with weekly frequency, categories to 0.9 with daily, and info pages to 0.5 with monthly.
Result: After submitting the sitemap to Search Console, Google indexed all 163 pages within 5 days. Organic traffic started flowing within two weeks.
đŽđŗ Priya from Bengaluru â Blog Relaunch
Priya relaunched her food blog with new URLs after migrating from Blogger to WordPress. Her old URLs returned 404 errors and Google was confused about her site structure.
She generated a sitemap with all 85 new post URLs plus 12 category pages, set lastmod to the migration date, and submitted it along with 301 redirects.
Result: Google re-indexed her blog within a week. Her rankings recovered to pre-migration levels within a month instead of the typical 2-3 months.
đēđ¸ Marcus from Chicago â Agency Client Sites
Marcus manages 12 small business websites for his agency clients. Most are 10-30 page sites built on custom HTML. None had sitemaps because "they were too small to need one."
He generated sitemaps for all 12 sites in under 20 minutes using the bulk entry mode, downloaded each file, and uploaded them to the respective servers.
Result: Within three weeks, 4 of the 12 sites saw new pages indexed that Google had previously missed â including key service pages that were driving zero organic traffic.
đŽđŗ Kavitha from Chennai â Multi-Language Website
Kavitha's education website has content in English, Hindi, and Tamil. Google was indexing the English pages well but missing most Hindi and Tamil pages because they had fewer internal links.
She created a comprehensive sitemap including all language versions with high priority, ensuring search engines knew every page existed regardless of internal linking.
Result: Hindi and Tamil page indexing went from 30% to 95% within two weeks. Regional language traffic doubled in the following month.
What Is a Sitemap and Why Does Your Website Need One?
A sitemap is like a table of contents for your website, written in a format that search engines can read. Just as a book's table of contents helps readers find chapters, a sitemap helps Google, Bing, and other search engines find and understand all the pages on your site.
Search engines discover pages by following links. They start from known pages and follow every link they find to discover new pages. This works well for websites with strong internal linking, but it fails when pages are buried deep, have few links pointing to them, or are newly created and haven't been linked from anywhere yet. A sitemap solves this by explicitly listing every URL you want indexed.
Sitemaps are especially critical for new websites (search engines don't know your pages exist yet), large websites (crawlers may not find every page through links alone), e-commerce stores (product pages often have thin internal linking), and websites that have recently changed their URL structure. Even well-established sites benefit from sitemaps because they include metadata like last modified dates and priority hints that help search engines crawl more intelligently.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Where do I upload the sitemap.xml file?
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