XML Sitemap-generator

A sitemap is a file that contains links to your website's most important pages for search engines and web crawlers to find. They can be HTML, TXT, RSS, or XML format.

Sitemaps help with SEO. The Sitemap protocol was created in 2006 and has been widely adopted by search engines including Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <url>
      <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
      <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
      <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
      <priority>0.8</priority>
   </url>
</urlset>

Not necessarily. Sitemaps are especially useful for large websites with many pages and images, but smaller websites may not need them to get fully indexed.

Place your sitemap in the root directory of your server at https://example.com/sitemap.xml. Usually, this folder is named /public_html or /httpdocs.

Then notify search engines using their webmaster tools: