XML Sitemap Generator
Use our free tool to easily generate XML sitemap to notify search engines including Google, Bing, and Yandex, about all your web pages and any changes in them, and make sure all your pages are correctly indexed.
You can create a sitemap for free a small website (up to 500 pages)
Follow these simple steps to generate your XML sitemap:
- Enter your full website URL and some optional parameters in the form below.
- Press 'Generate Sitemap' button and wait until the site is completely crawled.
- Wait a up to a few minutes, but likely it will be faster than that. When the process is completed, the XML sitemap will be downloaded, for you to place that file into the domain root folder of your site.
- Go to your Google Webmaster account and add your sitemap URL.
Why are Sitemaps Necessary?
Search engines (SE) need to understand what your site is about and they need to have a comprehensive list of the content in your site.
Technically, that is achieved by the SE "spiders" which visit your links and look for other links to visit. For a properly interconnected site, SEs should be able to spider all your pages, but that assumes all your pages are well connected, which is not always the case
Search engines will allow you to provide them with a sitemap, where you give them information about all the pages in your site, making their job a little easier. The web nowadays is huge, in the order of 30 BILLION.
Such is the volume of pages that the search engines need to spider to discover, some are actually NEVER discovered, unless you give Google and others a properly structured XML sitemap, listing all the pages in your website.
On-Page SEO
Aside from creating a sitemap, your site can greatly benefit from having a complete meta tags section that tells Google and other search engines what your website is about.
Then, it will be desirable that you cover your topic sufficiently so to satisfy user intent. Not too long ago there was a misconception that longer content was better than short content under every event, but it is now clear that is not the case.
Indeed, the search engines will reward sites that answer precisely what the user intent is. It could be that only a few words do the job, in which case extremely long content would be redundant and bottomline, not useful. Remember that word: "useful" is the name of the game.