🗺️ XML Sitemap Generator
An XML sitemap generator that turns a pasted list of URLs into a valid sitemap.xml with lastmod, changefreq, and priority, ready to submit to Google.
sitemap.xml (4 URLs)
What XML Sitemap Generator Does
A sitemap is one of the lowest-effort, highest-clarity signals a site can give a search engine: a plain list of URLs, in a standard XML format, that says "these are the pages I consider worth crawling." It does not force indexing — Google has been explicit that it decides independently which submitted URLs are actually worth indexing — but it does make discovery faster and more reliable, especially for pages that are hard to reach through normal internal linking.
Most sitemap tools solve discovery by crawling a site automatically, which requires server infrastructure this kind of client-side tool does not have. This one solves the more mechanical half of the problem instead: taking a URL list you already have (from a CMS export, a spreadsheet, or a hand-written list) and turning it into correctly-formatted, schema-valid XML — the same output a crawler-based tool would produce, built from input you supply directly.
How to Use XML Sitemap Generator
- Paste your page URLs, one per line
- Choose a change frequency and toggle lastmod/priority on or off
- Copy the generated sitemap.xml and upload it to your site
How to Read Your Result
lastmod is the field actually worth keeping accurate
Google has stated that changefreq and priority are largely ignored in practice, but lastmod is used as a signal for when to recrawl a page — an accurate lastmod value (reflecting when content genuinely changed, not just today's date on every regeneration) is more useful than defaulting all pages to the current date.
A sitemap does not replace internal linking
Pages included in a sitemap but not linked from anywhere else on the site are a common signal of low importance to a crawler, even with an accurate sitemap entry — a sitemap supplements a site's real link structure, it does not substitute for one.
Limitations & Accuracy Notes
- Does not crawl or discover URLs automatically — every URL to include has to be supplied in the input list.
- Does not validate that the URLs actually resolve (return 200, not a redirect or 404) — a sitemap full of broken links is a real, common problem this tool cannot detect on its own.
- The sitemap protocol caps a single file at 50,000 URLs / 50MB uncompressed; larger sites need to split across multiple sitemap files referenced from a sitemap index.