The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complement robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol.

Sitemap can be generated simply online from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

  • Go to the site.
  • Give your full URL here:

  • Select the frequency to modify the sitemap. It is selected as ‘None’. You can select always, hourly, monthly…… depending n how the site is.

  • Select last modification date. If you don’t know what, just select server response.

  • Select the priority.

  • Now click the START button after recheck all settings.
  • Sitemap will start to generate. It will few minutes depending how many pages the site have.

  • When sitemap generation is complete, you can download it as you want. There are different options. I prefer sitemap.xml

Now we have sitemap.xml with us :)

Now, Upload generated sitemap into the domain root folder of your site.

For example, your site URL is- xyz.com

Check http://www.xyz.com/sitemap.xml exist or not.

If not upload it properly.

For now, we need to submit it to Google to be indexed, crawled. We can submit easily from Google Webmaster tools account.

Sign-in the account with Gmail account.

Just for example, I have write xyz.com, not my site.  You put your site URL.

Click continue.

Before submitting xml file, you must verify your account to prove that you own the site. To verify your site there different options.

Select the best option for you.

I prefer meta tag pasting.

You will be given a meta tag to paste at your sites home page.

Copy the meta tag and past it at head section like this:

After pasting it properly to your sites homepage head section, come back and press verify button.

OK, your site is verified. congrats. :)

Now it’s time to submit the sitemap.xml

Now give the sitemap xml url  http://www.xyz.com/sitemap.xml

Done!!