Free Sitemap Generator

Paste your URLs into the input field above, one per line. The tool generates a standards-compliant XML sitemap that you can download and upload to your site's root directory. You can optionally set last modified dates, change frequency, and priority for each URL.

Why sitemaps matter for SEO

XML sitemaps tell search engines which pages exist on your site and how important they are relative to each other. While Google can discover pages through internal links, a sitemap ensures that new, orphaned, or deep pages get found and indexed quickly. Sites with thousands of pages especially benefit from sitemaps since crawlers have limited time to spend on any single domain.

Sitemap best practices

• Only include canonical, indexable URLs — no redirects, no noindex pages
• Keep sitemaps under 50,000 URLs or 50MB uncompressed
• Use sitemap index files if you exceed the limit
• Set accurate lastmod dates to signal freshness
• Reference your sitemap in robots.txt with a Sitemap directive
• Submit your sitemap through Google Search Console

Maintaining your sitemap

A sitemap is not a one-time task. As you add, remove, or restructure pages, your sitemap must stay current. Stale sitemaps with broken URLs waste crawl budget and can slow down the indexing of new content. Automate sitemap generation as part of your deployment pipeline whenever possible, and monitor indexing coverage in Search Console to catch discrepancies.

Auditite automatically generates and maintains sitemaps, detects pages missing from your sitemap, and submits updates to search engines whenever your site changes.