XML Sitemap Generator
Paste your URLs and get a valid XML sitemap with change frequency and priority set.
Paste your page URLs, one per line, and this tool builds a valid sitemap.xml you can hand to search engines. A sitemap is simply a list of the pages you want crawled, wrapped in the XML format Google and Bing expect. You can set a change frequency and priority for the entries, then copy the result. It all runs in your browser.
What a sitemap is for
A sitemap helps search engines discover your pages, which is especially useful for newer sites, large sites, or pages that aren't well linked from elsewhere. It's a suggestion, not a command — search engines still decide what to crawl and index — but it removes the excuse of "we didn't know that page existed." Each entry lists a URL and can carry optional hints about how the page behaves.
Change frequency and priority
Change frequency tells crawlers roughly how often a page updates (daily, weekly, monthly and so on), and priority ranks a page's importance relative to your own other pages on a scale from 0 to 1. Be honest with both: search engines treat them as hints and largely rely on their own judgement, so inflating every page to daily and priority 1.0 gains nothing. Once generated, save the file as sitemap.xml, upload it to your site's root, and submit its URL in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do I put the sitemap file?
Save it as sitemap.xml and upload it to your site's root (for example, https://example.com/sitemap.xml). Then submit that URL in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, and reference it in your robots.txt.
Do change frequency and priority actually affect ranking?
No. They are crawl hints, not ranking signals, and search engines mostly rely on their own analysis. Set them honestly — inflating every page provides no benefit.
How many URLs can a sitemap hold?
A single sitemap file supports up to 50,000 URLs and 50MB uncompressed. Larger sites split their URLs across multiple sitemaps referenced by a sitemap index file.
Does having a sitemap guarantee my pages get indexed?
No. A sitemap helps search engines discover pages, but they decide independently what to crawl and index. It improves discoverability; it does not force indexing.