An XML sitemap is a file that lists the important URLs on your website. It tells search engines like Google which pages exist and when they were last updated, helping them crawl and index your site more efficiently.
The tool crawls up to 100 pages across 3 levels of link depth. For large sites with thousands of pages, you may need a server-side crawler or dedicated SEO platform.
Place it in the root directory of your website so it's accessible at https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml. Then submit that URL in Google Search Console under Sitemaps.
changefreq hints to crawlers how often a page is likely to change (e.g., weekly). priority is a relative score (0.0 to 1.0) indicating how important a page is relative to other pages on your site. Both are hints, not commands.
Not necessarily. Submitting a sitemap through Google Search Console can speed up indexing, but Google decides when and whether to crawl each URL based on its own schedule and quality signals.
Good internal links help, but a sitemap is still recommended. It guarantees every important URL is communicated to search engines, especially for pages that are hard to discover through links alone.
The crawler may not discover all pages if they require JavaScript rendering, are behind login walls, are blocked by robots.txt, or don't have any inbound internal links from the crawled pages.
Images (.jpg, .png, .gif, .webp, .svg, .ico), styles (.css), scripts (.js), documents (.pdf, .zip), and data files (.json, .xml, .txt) are automatically excluded to keep only HTML pages in the sitemap.
Yes. The generated sitemap follows the universal sitemaps.org standard, which is supported by Google, Bing, Yahoo, and all major search engines. Submit the URL in each webmaster tool dashboard.
The crawl request is processed server-side because browsers cannot make cross-origin requests to external sites. The URLs discovered are returned to your browser but are not stored on SosialHits servers.
Yes, completely free. Generate sitemaps for as many websites as you like with no account, subscription, or usage limits required.
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