Free XML Sitemap Generator – Create Your sitemap.xml Online

By RapidTool Team · Last updated: September 2026

An XML sitemap is a file that lists all the important pages on your website, helping search engines like Google and Bing discover and index your content faster. Our free sitemap generator lets you add URLs individually or in bulk, set priority and change frequency for each URL, and download a perfectly formatted sitemap.xml file in seconds.

Sitemap Priority Guide

1.0

Homepage only — your most important page

0.8

Main category pages and important landing pages

0.6

Individual blog posts, product pages

0.4

Tags, archives, paginated pages

0.2

Low-importance pages: contact, legal, about

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I submit my sitemap to Google Search Console?

Upload sitemap.xml to your website's root directory (accessible at yoursite.com/sitemap.xml). Then log in to Google Search Console → select your property → click "Sitemaps" in the left menu → enter the sitemap URL → click "Submit". Google will start processing it within a few minutes. Also add a Sitemap: directive to your robots.txt file pointing to the sitemap URL.

How many URLs can an XML sitemap contain?

Google and Bing support up to 50,000 URLs per sitemap file, and the uncompressed file must be under 50MB. For larger websites, create a sitemap index file — an XML file that lists multiple sitemaps. You can also create separate sitemaps for different content types: one for blog posts, one for product pages, one for images, etc.

Does Google use the priority and changefreq values?

Google's John Mueller has confirmed that Google largely ignores the priority and changefreq values in sitemaps. Google determines crawl frequency based on its own signals like page authority, content freshness signals, and internal linking. However, Bing does use these values to some extent. It's still good practice to set them correctly for other search engines and crawlers.

Which pages should I exclude from my sitemap?

Only include pages you want indexed in Google. Exclude: admin and login pages, checkout and cart pages, thank-you pages, pages with noindex tags, paginated pages beyond page 2 (generally), pages blocked by robots.txt, duplicate content pages, thin or low-quality content pages, and internal search result pages.

How often should I update my sitemap?

Update your sitemap whenever you add or remove important pages. Dynamic websites (blogs, e-commerce) should use an auto-generated sitemap via their CMS (WordPress/Yoast, Shopify auto-generates one, etc.). Static sites should manually update the sitemap after each significant content change. The lastmod date signals to Google which pages have been updated recently.