Sitemap guides
Short, practical answers about XML sitemaps. Each guide starts with the answer.
Guides
- How to make a sitemap for WordPress
- Sitemaps on Shopify, Wix and Squarespace
- Sitemap vs robots.txt: what is the difference?
- Which sitemap tags matter: lastmod, priority and changefreq
- Why should you create a sitemap?
- What is an XML sitemap?
- Example sitemap
- Submitting your sitemap: links
- Bing sitemaps
- Frequently asked questions
From our news
- AI Crawlers And Your robots.txt (March 2025)
- Point Search Engines To Your Sitemap In robots.txt (May 2024)
- Google Retires The Sitemap Ping (July 2023)
- IndexNow: Telling Search Engines About Changes Right Away (February 2022)
- Common Sitemap Errors In Search Console, And How To Fix Them (September 2021)
- How Big Can A Sitemap Be? (February 2020)
- Why Are Pages Missing From My Sitemap? (June 2019)
- Mobile-first Indexing: What It Means For Your Sitemap (May 2018)
- Moved To HTTPS? Update Your Sitemap Too (March 2017)
- Submitting Your Sitemap In Google Search Console (April 2016)
Tools
- Free Sitemap Generator: our spider crawls your site and makes the sitemap
- Quick sitemap: a sitemap right now, no account needed
- Sitemap validator: check an existing sitemap for errors
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