Does a sitemap guarantee my pages get indexed?

No. It helps search engines discover URLs, but they decide independently what to crawl and index based on quality, links, and crawl budget. It improves discovery, not inclusion.

How often should I regenerate it?

Whenever your set of URLs changes meaningfully — new or removed pages, or a restructure. Regenerating after a batch of changes keeps the list accurate.

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XML Sitemap Generator — Free Website Sitemap

Crawl your site and build a valid XML sitemap of its URLs to submit to search engines. Free online sitemap generator with clean, standard-compliant output.

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URLs (one per line)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/</loc>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/about</loc>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>

An XML sitemap is a machine-readable list of the URLs you want search engines to know about. This tool crawls a starting URL, follows internal links, and assembles a valid sitemap.xml — following the sitemaps.org schema so any search engine can read it — that you download and submit to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

A sitemap aids discovery; it doesn't force indexing. It especially helps larger sites and pages that aren't well linked internally, because it gives crawlers a direct list rather than relying on them finding every page by following links.

Two limits worth knowing

The crawl only finds pages reachable by following internal links from your start URL. Orphan pages with no links pointing to them, and anything behind a form or login, won't be discovered — a useful signal about your internal linking.
A single sitemap file is capped at 50,000 URLs and 50MB uncompressed by the standard. Very large sites split into multiple sitemaps referenced by a sitemap index file.

How to use it

Enter your site's starting URL, usually the homepage, and begin the crawl.
The tool follows internal links and collects the reachable URLs.
Download the sitemap.xml, upload it to your root, reference it in robots.txt, and submit it in Search Console.

Frequently asked questions

Does a sitemap guarantee my pages get indexed?: No. It helps search engines discover URLs, but they decide independently what to crawl and index based on quality, links, and crawl budget. It improves discovery, not inclusion.
How often should I regenerate it?: Whenever your set of URLs changes meaningfully — new or removed pages, or a restructure. Regenerating after a batch of changes keeps the list accurate.

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