Online XML Sitemap Generator

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What is XML Sitemap?

In general, this is a list of URLs for your website in a form of XML file (it also known as Google Sitemap. Besides that it allows you to include additional SEO-specific 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, Baidu, AOL, Yandex, etc.) won't have any problems with understanding 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 produced by our generator sitemap example above contains 2 URLs and all of the allowed optional tags: <lastmod>, <changefreq> and <priority>.

There are a couple of limitations imposed by Google: a single XML file can contain not more than 50,000 URLs and may not be larger than 10 Megabytes.

Why do you need a sitemap

...because it allows to inform Search Engines about important pages on your website. That increases its visibility to Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, etc., and ensures indexing of the web pages that might not be discovered otherwise. Those provide additional information about your site to searching engines, complementing their traditional methods of crawling the World Wide Web. All major search engines use the same XML-based protocol for that. 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 map file to your server.

XML Sitemaps are especially helpful if:

• You have a brand new website
• Your web-site has dynamic content generated by CMS (Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, DotNetNuke, etc)
• Your have got a lot of pages
• You don't have desired Google PageRank
• Your website has complex navigation
• Some of your webpages are either not accessible from the main page and its children, or are buried too deep in the page hierarchy

If you happen to have broken links on your website, our Sitemap Generator will scan those and inform you if any are dead, and which specific pages need to be fixed.

How to create XML Sitemap

Creating XML Sitemap is easy with our free online XML Sitemap generator. To get your map file 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 sitemap maker 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 last time the URL was modified. This information helps search engine indexers and crawlers to decide whether the resource requires visiting. You can let our free sitemap creation tool 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. As Google specified the value for this tag is a number between 0.0 and 1.0 where 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 map builder can generate page priorities for you automatically by analyzing relative positions of your web pages in the website tree.

Create your Google sitemap now with our online Sitemap Maker

Uploading your XML Sitemap

Uploading is very 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 from Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines will not be included in your sitemap.xml file: the online generator script will simply skip it.

Learn more about XML Sitemaps

For more information on this SEO subject please visit www.sitemaps.org or see Google Sitemap-related pages at www.google.com/support/webmasters....

Why Web-Site-Map

• Our free Online Generator features a unique combination of user-friendly interfaces with rich functionality.
  
  
• The mapper script has the most accurate in the Internet handling of dynamically generated web pages (e.g. created by Joomla and WordPress), Cookies, session IDs, page redirects (including javascript redirects!), foreign languages, escaped and encoded URLs. The generated sitemap files are accepted by Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, etc. and have proven to be 100% compatible with all those major search engines!
  
  
• The generator supports national languages (any local charsets and character encodings including UTF-8) and has got a sophisticated retry logic to deal with distant hosts and slow networks.
  
  
• Page priorities can be either generated automatically or set manually.
  
  
• The Web-Site-Map crawler always obeys robots.txt files and follows bot rules as per Google's recommendations.
  
  
• Web-Site-Map webbased 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 site-map files on any computer no matter if it's Mac, PC, iPad, or Android device, and whether it runs Windows, Mac / Apple OSX , iOS, Android, HP WebOS, Chrome OS / Chromium, Linux or UNIX. Microsoft Windows 8 is fully supported too. The same is true from the content management perspective: you may manage your content manually or use CMS like Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, DotNetNuke, Magento - in all cases our HTTP crawler will always work well for you!
  
  
• Our Google/XML/Sitemap creator comes with another useful SEO feature - a free dead link checker that detects and reports broken hyperlinks right while making your Google site-map. Note that in order to use this broken-links checker you need to make a map with our online xml sitemap maker. As a better way of addressing that problem you can consider our brand new standalone broken link checker that is capable of reporting all bad HTTP reponse codes like 404 "Page not found," etc. So you can use the Link checking facility any time even without any google site-map files being generated. Remember to use Link Checker tools periodically to ensure constant health of your Internet resources. Joomla and other dynamic Content Management Systems are fully supported!
  


• Our online service is of a professional grade and offers a build-in Sitemap Validator that validates generated site-map files and reports whether the XML is well-formed and valid. Note that wellformness and its compliance with the XML Schema are critical factors: otherwise Google, Bing, and Yahoo and others won't be able to understand your sitemap. Choose your generator as well as other SEO tools wisely to make sure that your web optimization efforts won't be wasted!
  
  
• New: Our free sitemap creator has a 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 the current page limit is) and thus, the value changes frequently through the day. See the most recent allowance - it's much higher now, and therefore can fit even bigger web portals easily.


• This service is capable of handling any website no matter if it's coded by hand - with pure HTML / XHTML, or is based on PHP, ASP, JSP, Cold Fusion, etc. or is built using Drupal, Joomla extensions, WordPress, DotNetNuke, Magento, or any other CMS and e-Commerce platforms.

All this makes web-site-map generator a valuable everyday SEO tool for web designers and webmasters. Create your free map file today with our premium online builder and submit to Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu, Ask.

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Make your web-site Google-friendly by mapping it using our tool! Also don't forget to check our collection of SEO links for other useful services and website promotion resources!

If you happen to see any issues with our functionality, please don't hesitate to contact our Support.

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Have you tried our Broken Link Checker?

We recently added to the family of our online SEO tools a standalone dead link finder BrokenLinkCheck.com that detects bad links and highlights broken link locations right in your HTML code. Finding and fixing stale hyperlinks has never been easier!

The link checking tool makes results available in real-time so no waiting is involved: you can start fixing broken links right away while our broken link detector is validating the rest of your links!

    

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