What Is a Sitemap and Why You Need One
A sitemap is an XML file that lists your site's pages for search engines. Google and Bing read it to crawl your site faster and more completely, especially speeding up discovery of newly published or weakly-linked pages. This tool produces a standards-compliant sitemap.xml from a list where you enter one URL per line.
How to Use It
- Write one full URL per line (starting with https://). Invalid and duplicate lines are skipped automatically.
- Optionally choose a change frequency (changefreq) and priority applied to all URLs.
- Click Generate and save the output as
sitemap.xmlin your site root. - Submit the file's address in the "Sitemaps" section of Google Search Console.
About changefreq and priority
These values are only hints to search engines, not binding. Priority (0.0–1.0) states the relative importance of your pages among themselves; it does not push your site ahead of other sites. 1.0 for the homepage, 0.8 for important pages and 0.5 for standard content is a reasonable start. For a corporate site that changes infrequently, "weekly" or "monthly" is enough.
After preparing your sitemap, see our Hreflang Tag Generator for multilingual versions and our robots.txt Generator for crawler access rules. To set up all of technical SEO professionally, see our SEO optimisation service.