Free XML Sitemap Generator

How to create a sitemap in 3 steps

1. Enter your home page. example.com is enough; if it redirects to https://www.example.com/, the crawl starts there and the sitemap covers that host.
2. Let the generator crawl. It follows the links on every page, stays on your site, obeys robots.txt and checks each page the way Googlebot would: status, noindex and canonical. Up to 500 pages, 4 at a time.
3. Download sitemap.xml. Upload it to your site root, add a Sitemap line to robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console. Then test the live file with the sitemap finder and checker.

What goes into the sitemap, and what stays out

A sitemap should list only canonical pages that answer 200 and that Google may index. Redirects, noindex pages and duplicates tell Google your sitemap can't be trusted, so this XML sitemap generator leaves them out and tells you which URLs it skipped and why:

Tracking parameters such as utm_source are stripped, so one page is never listed twice. Links marked rel="nofollow" and links on pages with a nofollow directive are not followed. Only URLs on the exact host and protocol you start from are listed, because a sitemap may only contain URLs from its own site.

lastmod: real dates only

Google uses the lastmod date to decide what to recrawl, but only when it is consistently accurate. The generator takes lastmod from each page's Last-Modified header and drops it when the server simply stamps every response with the current time, which many dynamic sites do. You can turn lastmod off with one click. The file has no priority or changefreq tags: Google ignores both.

Do you need a sitemap generator at all?

Many platforms already create one: WordPress publishes /wp-sitemap.xml, Yoast SEO and Rank Math publish /sitemap_index.xml, and Shopify, Wix and Squarespace generate /sitemap.xml automatically. Run the sitemap finder first to see if you have one. This generator is for static sites, custom builds and sites whose sitemap is broken or missing. It also works as a crawl test: a page you expected that is missing from the result has no internal links pointing to it, and Google will struggle to find it too.

For sites with more than 500 pages, generate the sitemap from your CMS or framework (most have a plugin or a built-in route) and split it into several files under a sitemap index once you pass 50,000 URLs.

A sitemap lists every URL for search engines. To give AI assistants a short map of your key pages instead, use the llms.txt generator.

From sitemap to indexed pages

Submitting a sitemap tells Google your pages exist. It does not make Google index them, and new sites often see most of their sitemap sit at Discovered, currently not indexed. The fastest way out is Request Indexing in Search Console, one URL at a time.

IndexMachine does that on autopilot. It picks up every page in your sitemap and presses Google's own Request Indexing in your Search Console for every new and unindexed page, every day, using your full daily quota on every site. Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver get every new URL through unlimited IndexNow. No link farms. Of 1,841 pages IndexMachine requested, 1,418 (77%) were on Google, typically by our first check about 3 days after the request. Sign up free to see which of your pages Google hasn't indexed, or compare plans on the pricing page. To check a single page Google keeps skipping, use the why is my page not indexed checker.