An XML sitemap is the list of URLs you want search engines to know about, packaged in the format Google and Bing expect. It does not strictly require you to crawl your site; for small or medium sites it is faster to paste a known URL list into a generator like this one. The generator wraps each URL in a urlset entry with optional last-modified date, change-frequency hint, and priority weight. The output follows the sitemap.org schema that all major search engines accept. Paste your URL list one per line, optionally tweak the defaults, and the tool produces the XML. Download as sitemap.xml or copy to your clipboard, then upload to the root of your domain and submit it in Search Console. The tool also splits very large lists into multiple sitemap files plus a sitemap index, because Google enforces a 50,000 URL or 50 MB limit per single sitemap.
Frequently asked questions
Not strictly. Google can discover URLs through internal links. But a sitemap helps for new sites, orphan pages, and pages that are not heavily linked. It also gives Google a strong hint about which URLs are canonical and how often they change.
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