XML Sitemap Generator

Small sites with good internal links may be found without one, but a sitemap does no harm and helps crawlers on new, large or poorly linked sites.

Upload sitemap.xml to the top folder of your site so it opens at your-domain.com/sitemap.xml. Then submit it in Google Search Console and add a Sitemap line to your robots.txt.

No. It tells search engines the pages exist. Whether they are indexed depends on the quality and uniqueness of the pages.

Google has said it ignores those two fields, so they only add clutter. The file lists addresses and, if you choose, last-modified dates.

Only if they are accurate for each page. Search engines learn to ignore dates that are always today's date or never change.

One sitemap file can hold up to 50,000 addresses or 50 MB uncompressed; larger sites need several files. The automatic finder in this tool stops at 50 pages.