Free XML sitemap generator
Enter your homepage and JoinPostlyBot crawls up to 500 pages by following your internal links, leaves out redirects, errors, noindex and canonicalised pages, and builds a sitemap.xml you can download and submit to Google and Bing. Choose lastmod, changefreq and priority.
How to use the XML Sitemap Generator
- 1Enter your homepage address and choose how many pages to crawl (up to 500).
- 2Wait while JoinPostlyBot follows your internal links; you can stop at any time and keep what was found.
- 3Pick lastmod, changefreq and priority options, and check the list of pages left out and why.
- 4Download sitemap.xml, upload it to your site's root and submit it in Google Search Console.
Frequently asked questions
Which pages should be in an XML sitemap?
Only pages you want in search results: ones that answer 200, are indexable and whose canonical points to themselves. This generator leaves out redirects, errors, noindex pages and pages that canonicalise to another URL.
Do changefreq and priority matter to Google?
Google says it ignores changefreq and priority. It does use lastmod when the dates are accurate. Bing and other search engines may still read all three, so they are optional here.
Why are some of my pages missing from the generated sitemap?
The crawler only finds pages that are linked from other pages, up to 500. Pages blocked by robots.txt, linked only through JavaScript or forms, or deeper than the limit aren't reached. Large sites should use their CMS's sitemap.
How do I submit a sitemap to Google?
Upload sitemap.xml to your site's root, open Google Search Console, go to Sitemaps, enter the URL and submit. Also add a Sitemap: line with the full URL to robots.txt so every search engine finds it.
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- Broken Link CheckerFind broken, redirected and blocked links on one page.
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