Online XML Sitemap Generator

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Added recently: better XML sitemaps for Joomla!

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What is XML Sitemap?

In general, XML Sitemap (also known as Google Sitemap because it was introduced first by Google) is a list of URLs for your website in a form of XML file. XML Sitemaps allow you to include additional information about each URL such as the date it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is. XML format ensures that this information can be easily processed on different kinds of computers, applications and systems, so Search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask etc) won't have any problems to understand your sitemap files.

XML Sitemap sample:

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>



        <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">



            <url>



                <loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>



                <lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>



                <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>



                <priority>0.8</priority>



            </url>



            <url>



                <loc>http://www.example.com/about.htm</loc>



                <changefreq>daily</changefreq>



            </url>



        </urlset>


        

The sitemap example above contains 2 URLs and all of the allowed optional tags: <lastmod>, <changefreq> and <priority>.

A single XML sitemap file can contain from 1 to 50,000 URLs in it and may not be larger than 10 Megabytes.

Why do you need a Sitemap

XML Sitemap allows you to inform search engines about the pages on your website. It increases visibility of your website for search engines, and ensures coverage of those your web pages that may not be discovered otherwise. XML Sitemaps provide additional information about your site to search engines, complementing their traditional methods of crawling the web. All the biggest search engines are using the same XML protocol. This means that having an XML Sitemap will let Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing (MSN), and Ask have up-to-date information any time you upload a new sitemap to your server.

XML Sitemaps are especially helpful if:

• You have a brand new website
• Your site has dynamic content
• Your site has a lot of pages
• Your site has complex navigation

If you happen to have broken links on your website, our Sitemap Generator will detect those and inform you of all the broken links and the pages these links are on!

How to create XML Sitemap

Creating XML Sitemap is easy with our free online XML Sitemap generator. To get xml sitemap generated simply type in your URL and on the next page make selections for 3 optional parameters - page changing frequency, last modified date and page priority. See XML sitemap generator page screenshot.

What is "Page changing frequency"?
This value indicates how frequently the content at a particular URL is likely to change.

What is "Last modified date"?
The time the URL was last modified. This information allows search engines' crawlers to avoid recrawling documents that haven’t changed. You can let the generator take the information from your server or specify your own date and time.

What is "Page priority"?
The priority of a particular page relative to other pages on the same website. The value for this tag is a number between 0.0 and 1.0; 0.0 identifies the lowest priority page(s) on your website, and 1.0 - the highest. The default priority of a page is 0.5. Note that our XML Sitemap Builder can generate page priorities for you automatically by analyzing relative positions of your web pages in the website tree.

Create your XML Sitemap now with our XML Sitemap Maker

Uploading your XML Sitemap

Uploading XML Sitemap is easy: just download the generated sitemap.xml file from our download page and place it into the root directory of your website (most of the time root directory is the directory where your index file is).

Is it safe?

Yes, web-site-map.com xml sitemap builder browses only web pages that are freely accessible by everyone. Content restricted by your robots.txt file will not be included in your sitemap.xml file.

Learn more about XML Sitemaps

For more information on Google Sitemaps / XML sitemaps visit www.sitemaps.org or see Google Sitemap related pages at www.google.com.

Why Web-Site-Map.com

• Our free XML Sitemap Generator features unique combination of user-friendly interfaces with very rich functionality.
  
  
• It has the most accurate in the Internet handling of dynamically generated web pages, Cookies, session IDs, page redirects (including javascript redirects!), foreign languages, escaped and encoded URLs, and even Vector Markup Language (VML). The generated xml sitemaps are accepted by Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, and other major search engines, and have proven to have no compatibility or other issues whatsoever!
  
  
• It supports national characters and has got a sophisticated retry logic to deal with distant hosts.
  
  
• Page priorities can be either generated automatically or set manually.
  
  
• The web-site-map crawler always checks robots.txt files and obeys robots.txt rules.
  
  
• web-site-map service is 100% online tool. This means that you don't need to install any software on your computer, or upload any PHP scripts to your website. Moreover - you will be able to create your free xml sitemap files on any computer no mater if it's Mac or PC and whether it runs Windows, Mac / Apple OS, OSX, Linux or UNIX. New: Windows 7 is fully supported!
  
  
• Our XML Sitemap creator comes with a free broken link checker that detects and reports broken links. Note that in order to use the broken-links checker you need to make xml sitemap with our xml sitemap maker.
  


• Our service also offers a build-in XML Sitemap validator that validates generated xml sitemaps and reports whether the XML is well-formed and valid. Note that xml wellformness and its compliance with Google Sitemap XML Schema are critical factors: otherwise Google, Bing, and Yahoo etc won't be able to understand your sitemap.
  
  
• New: Our free xml sitemap creator has very high page limit which became dynamic recently: now the value is assigned based on actual server resources availability (the less busy our servers are the higher current page limit is) and thus the value changes very frequently through the day. See its most recent value here. (it's not 1500 pages anymore - it's much higher:)

More cool features are coming soon including higher free limits and a no-limit commercial version!

All this makes web-site-map sitemap generator a valuable everyday SEO tool for web designers and webmasters. Make your xml sitemap today! Make your web-site Google friendly! Also don't forget to check here for other useful SEO tools and website promotion resources or here - for more cool links!