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SITEMAP GENERATOR

Build XML sitemaps with full standard support — image, video, news, hreflang, sitemap index. Manual entry, bulk import, or site scanner.

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GENERATE SITEMAP

Output format
XML extensions (namespaces)
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SITEMAP STANDARDS

All supported tags, their allowed values, and links to the authoritative specification. Click any row to expand.

<loc> — Page URL
sitemaps.org · Required

The full URL of the page. Must start with http:// or https://. Must be URL-encoded. Maximum 2,048 characters. Must exactly match the canonical URL Google would index.

<loc>https://www.example.com/page/</loc>
↗ sitemaps.org — <loc> spec
<lastmod> — Last Modified Date
sitemaps.org · Optional

Date the URL was last modified. Use W3C Datetime format. Providing inaccurate dates may cause Google to ignore the field entirely. Use YYYY-MM-DD for date-only, or YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss+TZ for full datetime.

2024-01-15 2024-01-15T08:30:00+05:30 2024-01-15T00:00:00Z
↗ sitemaps.org — <lastmod> spec
<changefreq> — Change Frequency
sitemaps.org · Optional · Hint only

How frequently the page is likely to change. Used as a hint — crawlers may ignore it. always is for pages that change on every access. never is for archived content.

alwayshourlydailyweeklymonthlyyearlynever
↗ sitemaps.org — <changefreq> spec
<priority> — Relative Priority
sitemaps.org · Optional · Hint only

Priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site. Range 0.0–1.0. Default is 0.5. Does not affect ranking in search results — only tells the crawler which pages to crawl first. Google has stated it largely ignores this value.

1.0 — Homepage0.8 — Important0.5 — Default0.3 — Low
↗ sitemaps.org — <priority> spec
<image:image> — Image Extension
Google · Optional · Up to 1,000 per URL

Provides Google with information about images on your page. Helps images appear in Google Image Search. Add the xmlns:image namespace to the <urlset> tag. Up to 1,000 images per URL.

<image:image> <image:loc>https://example.com/img/photo.jpg</image:loc> <image:caption>A photo of our product</image:caption> <image:title>Product Photo</image:title> <image:license>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</image:license> <image:geo_location>Mumbai, India</image:geo_location> </image:image>
↗ Google — Image Sitemap docs
<video:video> — Video Extension
Google · Optional

Provides metadata about videos on your page for Google Video Search. Requires either video:content_loc or video:player_loc. video:thumbnail_loc, video:title, and video:description are required.

<video:video> <video:thumbnail_loc>https://example.com/thumb.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc> <video:title>My Video</video:title> <video:description>A description of the video.</video:description> <video:content_loc>https://example.com/video.mp4</video:content_loc> <video:duration>360</video:duration> <video:publication_date>2024-01-15</video:publication_date> <video:family_friendly>yes</video:family_friendly> <video:live>no</video:live> <video:tag>tutorial</video:tag> </video:video>
↗ Google — Video Sitemap docs
<news:news> — News Extension
Google News · Optional · Articles published within 2 days

Used to submit news articles to Google News. Only articles published within the last 48 hours will be crawled. Requires Google News publisher approval. news:publication_date must be in W3C datetime format.

<news:news> <news:publication> <news:name>The Example Times</news:name> <news:language>en</news:language> </news:publication> <news:publication_date>2024-01-15T09:00:00+00:00</news:publication_date> <news:title>Article headline here</news:title> <news:keywords>business, tech, AI</news:keywords> </news:news>
↗ Google — News Sitemap docs
<xhtml:link> — hreflang / Language Alternates
W3C / Google · Optional · Internationalization

Tells search engines about localized versions of your pages. Each URL that has alternates must list all alternate versions including itself. Use hreflang="x-default" for the fallback version shown when no other locale matches.

<!-- In every localized URL entry --> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://example.com/"/> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/en/"/> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="https://example.com/fr/"/> <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="ja" href="https://example.com/ja/"/>

Valid hreflang values follow BCP 47 language tags: en, en-US, en-GB, fr, fr-CA, zh-Hans, zh-Hant, x-default

↗ Google — hreflang docs    ↗ W3C — BCP 47 language tags
<sitemapindex> — Sitemap Index
sitemaps.org · For sites with 50,000+ URLs

A sitemap index file lists multiple sitemap files. Each individual sitemap can have at most 50,000 URLs and must be under 50 MB (uncompressed). The index itself can reference up to 50,000 sitemaps. Submit the index URL to Google Search Console.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"> <sitemap> <loc>https://www.example.com/sitemap1.xml</loc> <lastmod>2024-01-15</lastmod> </sitemap> <sitemap> <loc>https://www.example.com/sitemap2.xml</loc> <lastmod>2024-01-10</lastmod> </sitemap> </sitemapindex>
↗ sitemaps.org — Sitemap Index spec    ↗ Google — Large Sitemaps docs
Submission — Google, Bing, Yandex
Search engine indexing

Google Search Console: Go to Sitemaps → Enter sitemap URL → Submit. Or ping: https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=YOUR_SITEMAP_URL

Bing/Microsoft: Bing Webmaster Tools → Sitemaps → Submit. Or ping: https://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=YOUR_SITEMAP_URL

Yandex: Yandex Webmaster → Site Map → Add. Or add to robots.txt: Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

Yahoo: Yahoo uses Bing's index — submit to Bing Webmaster Tools.

Best practice: Reference your sitemap in robots.txt so all crawlers discover it automatically: Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

↗ Google Search Console    ↗ Bing Webmaster Tools