Frequently Asked Questions
A sitemap is a file that provides information about the pages, videos, and other files on your website, and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.
By placing a formatted XML file with your sitemap on your web server, you enable search engine crawlers to discover all your important pages, even if they're not well linked.
- Improved SEO: Helps search engines index your site more efficiently
- Better discovery: Ensures all important pages are found, even if they're not well linked
- Freshness signals: Helps search engines understand when content has been updated
- Priority indication: You can specify which pages are most important
- Change frequency: Indicates how often pages are updated
Our sitemap generator works by:
- Crawling your website starting from the homepage
- Following all internal links up to 2 levels deep
- Identifying all unique, valid URLs on your site
- Generating a properly formatted XML sitemap
- Assigning appropriate priority levels based on URL depth
The process typically takes just a few seconds for most websites.