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Sitemap Generator
Generate XML sitemaps for search engines with customizable options, priority settings, and SEO optimization.
Sitemap Configuration
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Generated Sitemap
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SEO Optimization Tips
🎯 Prioritize Important Pages
Assign higher priority (0.8-1.0) to key pages like homepage, product pages, and contact pages.
🔄 Update Change Frequency
Set appropriate changefreq values to help search engines understand how often content is updated.
📅 Include Last Modified Dates
Always include accurate lastmod dates to help search engines index fresh content.
🚫 Exclude Unnecessary Pages
Don't include login pages, admin sections, or duplicate content in your sitemap.
What is a Sitemap?
A sitemap is an XML file that lists all the important pages of a website, along with additional metadata about each URL. It helps search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo discover, crawl, and index your website's content more efficiently.
Why Sitemaps are Important for SEO
Sitemaps play a crucial role in search engine optimization:
- Improved Crawling: Helps search engines find all your pages, especially deep or new content
- Faster Indexing: New or updated content gets indexed more quickly
- Priority Signaling: Tells search engines which pages are most important
- Change Frequency: Indicates how often pages are updated
- Error Identification: Helps identify crawling issues with specific URLs
Types of Sitemaps
📄 XML Sitemaps
Standard format for search engines. Contains URLs with metadata like lastmod, changefreq, and priority. Most commonly used for SEO purposes.
👥 HTML Sitemaps
Human-readable sitemaps for website visitors. Helps users navigate your site and improves user experience.
📰 News Sitemaps
Specialized sitemaps for news articles. Helps Google News discover and index news content quickly.
🖼️ Image Sitemaps
Contains information about images on your site. Helps images appear in Google Image Search results.
🎥 Video Sitemaps
Provides metadata about video content. Helps videos appear in Google Video Search results.
Sitemap Best Practices
- Include all important pages (max 50,000 URLs per sitemap)
- Use proper URL formatting (include protocol like https://)
- Keep sitemap under 50MB (uncompressed) or split into multiple sitemaps
- Submit your sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools
- Update your sitemap regularly when adding new content
- Use consistent date formats (ISO 8601: YYYY-MM-DD)
- Set appropriate priority values (0.0 to 1.0)
- Choose accurate change frequency values
Technical Specifications
🔗 URL Format
Must use absolute URLs including protocol (http:// or https://). URLs should be properly encoded.
📏 File Size Limits
Maximum 50MB uncompressed or 50,000 URLs. Use sitemap index files for larger sites.
🗓️ Date Format
Use W3C Datetime format (YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss+00:00).
📊 Priority Values
Range from 0.0 (lowest) to 1.0 (highest). Default is 0.5. These are relative to other pages on your site.
Submitting Your Sitemap
After generating your sitemap, you need to submit it to search engines:
🔍 Google Search Console
Navigate to Sitemaps section and submit your sitemap URL. Google will then crawl and index your pages.
🌐 Bing Webmaster Tools
Submit your sitemap through the Sitemaps section in Bing Webmaster Tools.
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