Sitemap Generator features

• Generates free xml, ror, html, txt sitemap files online.
• Unlimited number of pages.
• Last modification time.
• Change frequency.
• Manual or automatic priority.

• Exclude and Do not parse file extensions.
• Exclude and Do not parse URLs.
• Remove session IDs.
• Depth level.
• Indexed pages limit.
• Checks and reports broken links - free.

About Sitemaps

What is XML Sitemap?
XML Sitemap is an XML file that lists the pages for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) . Sitemap informs search engines that listed pages are available for crawling. Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from external links to the site. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata.

What is ROR Sitemap?
ROR (Resources of a Resource) sitemap is an XML format that describes web content as classified objects. ROR expands on the RSS protocol with its own extensions. It is describing any object on a website (sitemaps, services, products, menus, reviews, images, contact info, etc), so any search engines can better understand its content.

What is HTML Sitemap?
HTML site maps are spidered by every search engine providing them with page links. They can also be used for your visitors when they visit your site.

What is TXT Sitemap?
A sitemap in Text format is suitable as an alternative sitemap for some search engines.

How big can a XML Sitemap be?
XML Sitemaps should be no larger than 10MB (10,485,760 bytes) and can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs.

Where do I place Sitemap files?
Download your sitemap.xml file and upload it to root directory of your website.

Get additional information about sitemaps here: www.sitemaps.org

XML Sitemap Creation

With our free online XML Sitemap generator you can very easy create your sitemap. First type in your URL and then select the parameters you may wish to change. (change frequency, last modification date and page priority. You may also alter default settings for exclude extensions, do not parse extensions and session ids. In the next fields you can declare which URLs you want to exclude from sitemap (see example below). Finally you may select the maximum number of pages and the depth level. Optionally you can select to create additional sitemaps, like ROR sitemap, HTML sitemap or TXT sitemap.

What is "Page changing frequency"?
Change frequency affects when and how often search engine spiders visit your site’s pages. It may have one of seven values: always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never. This tells the search engines how often each page is updated. An update refers to actual changes to the HTML code or text of the page.

What is "Last modification date"?
This parameter can take one of the next three values:
Server's response. Set the date of last modification of the file using server response headers. This value, gives crawlers the information to not recrawling documents that have not changed. We recommend to keep this setting.
Current time. Set the date of last modification of the file using the current date and time.
None. Do not use any value for Last modification of the files.

What is "Page priority"?
The Priority is set to a number between zero and one. If no number is assigned, priority is set to 0.5. This number determines the priority of a particular URL relative to other pages on the same site. A high priority page may be indexed more often and appear above other pages from the same site in search results. Automatic priority reduces the priority of a page depending on depth level.

What is "Depth Level "?
Depth level of a page means how many clicks away is this page from homepage.

What is "Exclude extensions "?
Files with these extensions found in your website pages are not included in sitemap (not crawled). Separate input values with spaces.

What is "Do not parse extensions "?
Files with these extensions will not be fetched in order to save bandwidth, because they are not html files and have no embedded links but will be included in the sitemap. Separate input values with spaces.

What is "Session IDs "?
If URLs on your site have session IDs in them, you must remove them. Including session IDs in URLs may result in incomplete and redundant crawling of your site. Common session IDs: PHPSESSID, sid, osCsid. Separate with spaces.

What is "Exclude URLs "?
URLs that contain these strings will not be included on sitemap. Input values one per line.
e.g. 1 Use string: component/ in order to exlude all pages in www.yoursite.com/component/
e.g. 2 If you have a Joomla website then you may exclude the following strings:
print=1
format=pdf
option=com_mailto
component/mailto
/mailto/
mailto:
login
register
reset
remind
do_pdf=
pop=1
task=emailform
task=trackback
task=rss

What is "Do not parse URLs "?
In order to increase sitemap creation speed, do not fetch pages that contain these strings in url. These pages will be included in sitemap. One per line.

Is it safe using XML Sitemap Generator?

Our Sitemap Genarator crawls pages in your website that are not restricted by your robots.txt file or any search engine, which means that are accessible by anyone. Web pages that included in robots.txt or have a rel=nofollow tag will not be included in sitemap.xml file.