Sitemap Generator

What the Sitemap Generator does

The Sitemap Generator converts a plain list of URLs into a valid XML sitemap, the format search engines use to discover and crawl a site's pages more efficiently.

How to use it

1. Paste your list of URLs into the box, one per line.
2. Click Generate Sitemap.
3. Click Copy sitemap.xml and upload the file to your site's root directory.

Common uses

• Creating a sitemap.xml for a small static site without a CMS that generates one automatically.
• Producing a sitemap for a new site before submitting it to Google Search Console.
• Generating a sitemap for a subset of pages you want to specifically flag for crawling.
• Rebuilding a sitemap after a site restructure changed a batch of URLs.
• Quickly validating the XML structure of a hand-written sitemap.

Good to know

A sitemap helps search engines discover pages more efficiently, but it doesn't guarantee those pages will be indexed or ranked — indexing still depends on content quality, crawl budget, and whether the pages are otherwise accessible and linked, so treat the sitemap as one part of a broader technical SEO setup, not a standalone fix.

XML sitemaps became a formal joint standard in 2006 when Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft agreed on a shared format, replacing what had previously been several incompatible, search-engine-specific submission methods — that standardization is why a single sitemap.xml file today works across essentially every major search engine rather than needing separate submissions.