Free Sitemap Generator
Crawl your site and build a valid sitemap.xml.
What is the Sitemap Generator?
Search engines find your pages by following links, but a sitemap hands them a clean list of everything you want indexed — no guesswork. For newer sites, pages with few internal links, or large sections, that list is often the difference between being found this week and being found next month.
This sitemap generator crawls your site, works out which pages are actually indexable, and builds a valid sitemap.xml you can download and upload in minutes.
Last updated: Aug 13, 2026
What does this tool do?
You enter your site's address and the tool crawls same-site pages, following links from the URL you give it, while respecting your robots.txt rules.
It keeps only the pages worth indexing — those that return 200, aren't marked noindex, and don't point their canonical tag at a different URL — and outputs a standards-compliant sitemap.xml.
Key features
Crawls your live site
Discovers pages by following internal links.
Indexable-only
Skips noindex pages and non-canonical duplicates.
Valid XML output
Standards-compliant sitemap.xml with lastmod.
Copy or download
Grab the file or copy the markup directly.
Respects robots.txt
Won't crawl paths you've disallowed.
Example
Common use cases
- New site owners — Give search engines a full page list from day one.
- SEO specialists — Ship a clean sitemap without a crawler subscription.
- Bloggers — Keep every post discoverable.
- Developers — Generate a sitemap for a site without a CMS plugin.
- Small businesses — Make sure service and location pages get indexed.
- Migrators — Produce a fresh sitemap after a redesign.
- Agencies — Create sitemaps for client sites quickly.
- Anyone without a sitemap — Get one in a minute instead of hand-writing XML.
Benefits
- It saves you from writing XML by hand.
- It only lists pages you actually want indexed.
- It respects canonicals so you don't submit duplicates.
- The output is ready to upload as-is.
Tips
- Upload sitemap.xml to your site root, e.g. yoursite.com/sitemap.xml.
- Add a 'Sitemap:' line to robots.txt so crawlers find it automatically.
- Submit the sitemap in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
- Regenerate it after adding or removing pages.
- A sitemap suggests pages to crawl — it doesn't force indexing.
- Keep noindex pages out of the sitemap; this tool already does that.
- For very large sites, split into multiple sitemaps with an index file.
- Validate the file afterward with the sitemap validator.
Common mistakes to avoid
Listing noindex or redirected URLs
Fix: Only include canonical, indexable pages — this tool filters them for you.
Forgetting to reference it in robots.txt
Fix: Add a 'Sitemap:' line so crawlers discover it.
Never updating the sitemap
Fix: Regenerate it whenever your page set changes.
Expecting a sitemap to guarantee indexing
Fix: It helps discovery; content quality and links still decide indexing.
How it works
- 1
Enter your site
The homepage or any starting URL.
- 2
Crawl
It discovers indexable pages across your site.
- 3
Download
Copy or download the ready-to-upload sitemap.xml.
Frequently asked questions
It crawls same-site pages and includes those that return 200, aren't set to noindex, and don't canonicalize to a different URL.
Up to 60 pages per run, respecting your robots.txt rules.
Same-site pages that return 200, aren't set to noindex, and don't canonicalize to a different URL.
Up to 60 pages per run, following internal links and respecting robots.txt.
Upload it to your site root as sitemap.xml, then reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Search Console.
No. It helps search engines discover pages, but indexing still depends on content and links.
The tool covers up to 60 pages; for larger sites, generate section sitemaps or use a server-side generator.
No. Your pages are fetched only to build the sitemap.
Conclusion
A sitemap generator gets a clean, valid page list in front of search engines without hand-writing XML. Pair it with the sitemap validator and the whole-site SEO audit to keep discovery and crawl health in good shape.