Crawl and indexing
sitemap.xml Generator
Turn a list of URLs into a valid sitemap.xml, with Arabic paths encoded and the protocol limits checked.
Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded. · Free, no account · 3 min
Add a last-modified date after a comma if you have one. Arabic paths are percent-encoded for you.
Google uses lastmod only when it is consistently accurate. A date on every URL that is not true teaches Google to ignore it.
Optional. Lets you paste /about instead of the full URL.
Importing a saved run into your account is coming soon. Until then, your last runs stay in this browser only, and you can download your files.
How to use
- Paste your page URLs, one per line. Add a last-modified date after a comma if you have one.
- Choose whether to use your dates, leave lastmod out, or use today's date.
- Check the notes for skipped lines, duplicates and mixed hosts.
- Download sitemap.xml, upload it to your site root and reference it in robots.txt or Search Console.
What it checks and how it works
The file follows the Sitemaps protocol at sitemaps.org and Google's guide to building a sitemap: UTF-8, entity-escaped values, absolute URLs, a lastmod in W3C Datetime format, at most 50,000 URLs and 50 MB (52,428,800 bytes) uncompressed per file. Arabic and other non-ASCII path characters are percent-encoded as UTF-8, the form Google recommends in links.
Google ignores the priority and changefreq values and uses lastmod only when it is consistently and verifiably accurate. For that reason the tool leaves priority and changefreq out unless you choose them, and it does not invent dates: lastmod appears only when you type it or ask for today's date.
Sources
- sitemaps.org: Sitemaps XML format opened 29 Oct 2026
- Google Search Central: Build and submit a sitemap opened 29 Oct 2026
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Questions
About this tool
Only if the date is true. Google says it uses lastmod when it is consistently and verifiably accurate. A date that changes without the page changing can teach Google to ignore the field, so use real modification dates or leave it out.
Google says it ignores both values. The tool lets you add them for other consumers of your sitemap, but they are off by default.
A sitemap file can hold at most 50,000 URLs and 50 MB uncompressed. Split the list into several files and list them in a sitemap index, which the Sitemap Index Generator builds.
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