Sitemap Generator

Save the generated XML as sitemap.xml at your site's root, then add it to Google Search Console under Indexing > Sitemaps. Also reference it in your robots.txt file: Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml. Google will crawl it periodically.

Changefreq tells crawlers how often a page is likely updated. Priority (0.0�1.0) indicates relative importance among your URLs. Note: Google largely ignores these values - they use their own algorithms. But they're part of the spec and other search engines may use them.

A sitemap.xml file lists all important URLs on your site with optional metadata: last modification date (lastmod), change frequency (changefreq), and priority (0.0-1.0). Search engines use sitemaps to discover pages that might not be easily found through normal crawling, like pages deep in your site hierarchy.

Ideally yes. Submit your sitemap URL to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. You can also reference it in robots.txt (Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml). Search engines will eventually find it by crawling, but direct submission speeds up discovery.

A single sitemap file can contain up to 50,000 URLs and must be under 50MB uncompressed. For larger sites, split into multiple sitemaps and use a sitemap index file. This tool is best suited for smaller sites; for 50,000+ URLs, use a CMS plugin or static site generator.