What Is a Sitemap.xml File?
A sitemap.xml is a small XML file that lists every page on your website you want search engines to know about. Google, Bing, and other crawlers use it to discover new content faster, recrawl pages that have changed, and decide which URLs are most important. Submit it once in Google Search Console and your indexing speed improves on day one.
How the Generator Works
- Paste your homepage URL.
- The tool fetches the page server-side, extracts every internal link, and tries to import URLs from your existing
/sitemap.xmlif one is published. - Each URL is auto-categorized as homepage, blog, category, tool, static, or other — and assigned a sensible priority and changefreq based on its path.
- Use Include paths to add extra URLs and Exclude paths to remove anything you don't want indexed (admin, drafts, search pages, etc.).
- Copy the generated XML or click Download to save it as
sitemap.xml— ready to upload to your site root.
Smart Priority Inference
- Homepage → priority 1.0, daily
- /blog, /news, /articles → priority 0.9, daily
- Blog posts → priority 0.7, monthly
- Tool / category landings → priority 0.8, weekly
- Tool sub-pages → priority 0.7, monthly
- /about, /contact, /privacy, /terms → priority 0.5, yearly
Pick a single change-frequency or priority in the form to override these per-route defaults for every URL.
Frequently Asked Questions
+What is a sitemap.xml file?
A sitemap.xml is a structured list of the URLs on your site that you want search engines to crawl. Submitting one to Google Search Console helps your pages get discovered and re-crawled faster.
+How does this sitemap generator find my pages?
It fetches your homepage, parses every internal link in the HTML, and also imports URLs from your existing /sitemap.xml if one is published. You can add extra URLs with the include paths field and remove paths with exclude.
+What's a good priority value?
1.0 for the homepage, 0.8–0.9 for major category pages and the blog index, 0.6–0.7 for blog posts and tool pages, 0.5 or lower for legal/static pages. Don't make every page 1.0 — that gives Google no signal.
+How often should I update my sitemap?
Whenever you add, remove or significantly update content. For active blogs, daily or weekly is normal. The lastmod date helps Google decide what to recrawl, so keeping it accurate is more important than the changefreq value.
+What if my site has more than 50,000 URLs?
Google's per-sitemap limit is 50,000 URLs and 50 MB uncompressed. Split larger sites across multiple sitemaps and reference them from a sitemap index file (sitemap_index.xml).
+Is the tool free?
Yes. The tool is 100% free with no signup, no credit card, and no email required. Generate as many sitemaps as you need.