Help search engines like Google find and index all your website pages. Our free tool instantly generates an XML sitemap for your site. Just enter your URL and go!
Imagine your website is a huge library with hundreds of books (pages). When a librarian (like a Google search crawler) comes to organize it, you could either let them wander aimlessly, hoping they find every book, or you could hand them a perfectly organized table of contents.
That table of contents is an XML sitemap. It’s a simple file that lists every single important page on your website, making it incredibly easy for search engines to find, crawl, and index your content. If you want your pages to show up in search results, a sitemap is not optional—it's essential.
Handing this "map" to search engines gives you a serious advantage:
Faster Discoverability: When you add new content or pages, the sitemap tells Google about them right away, so they get discovered faster.
Comprehensive Indexing: It ensures that all your pages, even deep ones that might be missed by a normal crawl, get found and indexed.
Shows Importance: It allows you to tell search engines which pages are most important and how often they are updated.
A Must-Have for New Sites: For a brand new website with few external links, a sitemap is often the only way Google will find all your pages.
You don't need to know any code to create this powerful file.
Enter Your Website URL: Go to the FreeXTool XML Sitemap Generator and type in the full homepage address of your website (e.g., https://www.example.com).
Generate & Download: Click the "Generate Sitemap" button. The tool will crawl your website and create a perfectly formatted sitemap.xml file for you. Simply download the file to your computer.
Creating the sitemap is step one. Step two is telling Google where to find it.
Upload the downloaded sitemap.xml file to the root directory of your website (e.g., https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml).
Log in to your free Google Search Console account.
Go to the "Sitemaps" section, enter your sitemap URL, and click "Submit."
That's it! You've just made it significantly easier for Google to understand and rank your website.
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