Publish an XML sitemap

Why it matters

A sitemap lists the pages you want search engines to find, which helps new and deep pages get discovered. Without one, crawlers rely on following links alone.

The fix

1. Generate a sitemap with your CMS, framework or a sitemap generator and publish it at https://example.com/sitemap.xml. Use absolute https URLs on the same host and UTF-8 encoding.
2. Add a Sitemap line with its full address to robots.txt, and submit it in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.
3. Keep it under 50,000 URLs and 50 MB uncompressed per file; use a sitemap index beyond that.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-01-01</lastmod>
  </url>
</urlset>

The examples use example.com. Replace it with your own domain.

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Related

• Reported by the robots.txt and sitemap check
• Add a robots.txt file
• Fix the server error on robots.txt
• Fix the syntax of robots.txt
• Shrink the robots.txt file
• Allow search engines in robots.txt
• List the sitemap in robots.txt
• Make the sitemap reachable
• Fix the sitemap format
• Put URLs into the sitemap
• Split the sitemap into several files
• Remove URLs from other domains in the sitemap