Short answer: you don't need to make one. Shopify, Wix and Squarespace all make a sitemap for you at /sitemap.xml on your own domain, for example https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml, and keep it up to date. Submit that address in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Shopify

  • Your sitemap is at /sitemap.xml on your primary domain. It is an index that points to separate sitemaps for products, collections, pages and blog posts.
  • You cannot edit the file. Products and pages that are not published to your online store stay out of it.
  • While your store is password protected, search engines cannot read the sitemap or the pages in it.

Wix

  • Your sitemap is at /sitemap.xml, again an index with a sitemap for each kind of page.
  • Pages you hide from search engines in a page's SEO settings are left out.
  • Wix's SEO setup can connect your site to Google Search Console and submit the sitemap for you.

Squarespace

  • Your sitemap is at /sitemap.xml and changes by itself when you add or remove pages.
  • Pages that are hidden from search results, disabled or password protected are left out.

Submitting it

  1. Open https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml in your browser, with your own domain, to see that it works.
  2. In Google Search Console, open Sitemaps, enter sitemap.xml and press Submit.
  3. Do the same in Bing Webmaster Tools.

Can our generator still help?

For the sitemap itself, no: use the one your platform makes. Our spider is useful as a check. It finds pages the way a search engine does, by following links, so a page that is in your platform's sitemap but not in ours is a page nothing links to. And if part of your website runs somewhere else, such as a blog on another platform, our sitemap can cover that part.