Free XML Sitemap Generator, Crawl Your Site and Download sitemap.xml
Enter your domain and we crawl it live, discover up to 100 internal pages, and build a standards-compliant XML sitemap you can copy or download and submit to Google Search Console in one click.
What XML Sitemaps Do, and What They Do Not Do
An XML sitemap is a machine-readable list of the URLs you want search engines to know about. Its job is discovery: it guarantees that Googlebot and Bingbot can find every listed page even if your internal linking misses it, and it gives crawlers hints about your site's scale and structure. Sitemaps matter most for new sites with few external links, large sites where crawl budget is stretched thin, sites with deep architectures, and pages that are hard to reach through navigation, think seasonal landing pages or older articles buried in archives.
What a sitemap will not do is rank your pages. Listing a URL is a suggestion, not a command: Google still decides whether to crawl it, whether to index it, and where to rank it based on quality, relevance, and links. A sitemap also does not fix duplicate content, canonicalization conflicts, or noindex mistakes, in fact, a sitemap full of redirected, blocked, or non-canonical URLs sends confusing signals. Keep your sitemap clean: only include canonical, indexable, 200-status pages, and treat Search Console's sitemap report as a free audit of which submitted pages Google actually chose to index.
Where to Submit Your Sitemap for Fastest Discovery
Once you download the generated sitemap.xml, upload it to the root of your site so it lives at yoursite.com/sitemap.xml. Then submit it in Google Search Console under Indexing and Sitemaps, and again in Bing Webmaster Tools. Both consoles will report how many submitted URLs were discovered and indexed, plus any errors like blocked or redirected entries, which makes the sitemap report one of the most useful free diagnostics in technical SEO.
The second, often forgotten step is robots.txt. Add a single line, Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml, anywhere in the file. Every crawler that fetches robots.txt, which is effectively all of them, including AI crawlers powering answer engines, will discover your sitemap automatically without any console submission. This matters because Bing, DuckDuckGo, and newer AI search crawlers may never see a Search Console submission, but they all read robots.txt. Re-run this generator whenever your site structure changes so the file on your server never drifts out of date.