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XML Sitemap Generator

Create an XML sitemap to help search engines discover and index your website's pages with automatic duplicate URL detection

We'll crawl this URL to generate a sitemap automatically
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Upload a text file with one URL per line or an existing XML sitemap to edit
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Sitemap Configuration Details

Change Frequency Explained

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Always: Content changes extremely frequently (e.g., real-time updates)
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Hourly: Content updates multiple times per day
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Daily: Content changes once per day
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Weekly: Content updates once per week (default)
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Monthly: Content changes occasionally
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Yearly: Rarely updated content
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Never: Static content that doesn't change

Page Priority Details

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1.0 (Highest): Most important pages (homepage, key landing pages)
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0.8 - 0.9: Critical pages with significant content
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0.5 (Default): Standard, general-purpose pages
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0.3 - 0.4: Less important supporting pages
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0.1 - 0.2: Archived or low-priority content
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Pro Tip: Higher priority suggests more importance to search engines

How These Settings Impact Your Sitemap

The Change Frequency and Priority are hints to search engines about your content's update patterns and relative importance. While search engines may not strictly follow these values, they provide valuable metadata for crawling and indexing.

Note: These are suggestions, and actual crawling behavior depends on search engine algorithms.

URL Best Practices & Duplicate Detection

Our tool automatically detects and removes duplicate URLs, including those with these common variations:

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Protocol variations: http:// vs https:// are treated as the same URL
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Trailing slash differences: example.com/page vs example.com/page/
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Capitalization: Example.com/Page vs example.com/page

Search engines typically treat URLs with and without trailing slashes as different URLs:

https://example.com/page vs https://example.com/page/
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Consistency is key: Our tool automatically removes duplicates but you can still choose one format in the edit mode
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SEO impact: Inconsistent trailing slashes can cause duplicate content issues
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Recommendation: Many SEO experts prefer URLs without trailing slashes for cleaner appearance
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URL normalization: Use the edit mode to consistently add or remove trailing slashes if needed