Should every URL go in the sitemap?

Include canonical, indexable URLs you want crawled. Skip duplicates, redirect chains, and paginated archives.

Where does sitemap.xml live?

At /sitemap.xml of your domain. Reference it in robots.txt with: Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

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sitemap.xml Generator

Generate a valid XML sitemap from your list of URLs.

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URLs (one per line) — 4 found

Change frequency

Priority

Include today's lastmod

sitemap.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-05-14</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/about</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-05-14</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/contact</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-05-14</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/blog</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-05-14</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>

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