Advanced Sitemap Generator

Create professional, SEO-friendly and comprehensive sitemaps for your website. Enable search engines to crawl your site more effectively, increase indexing rates, and improve your digital visibility.

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1. Overview

The Advanced Sitemap Generator is a professional tool developed to discover, analyze, and create comprehensive sitemaps in XML format for websites. This tool crawls all pages, images, videos, and other media files on your website and provides a roadmap that makes it easier for search engines to discover this content.

Quick Info

Search engines can crawl websites without sitemaps, but a comprehensive sitemap helps search engines better understand your site's structure and index all your content more effectively.

Our Advanced Sitemap Generator is designed to comply with the latest sitemap standards supported by popular search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex. With its simple user interface and powerful features, it allows everyone, including users with limited technical knowledge, to easily create professional sitemaps.

2. What is a Sitemap?

A sitemap is an XML file that contains a list of pages on a website and provides information about these pages to search engines. This file explains the site structure, enabling search engines to crawl more efficiently and comprehensively.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.example.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2024-05-01T12:30:00+00:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.example.com/about</loc>
    <lastmod>2024-04-15T14:20:00+00:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>

A sitemap file typically includes the following information:

  • Location (loc): The full URL of the page.
  • Last Modified (lastmod): When the page was last updated.
  • Change Frequency (changefreq): How often the page changes (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.).
  • Priority (priority): The relative importance of this page compared to other pages on your site (between 0.0 - 1.0).

Sitemaps can also include additional information for special content types like images, videos, and news. For large sites with more than 50,000 URLs, a sitemap index can be created that brings together multiple sitemaps.

3. Why is it Important?

Better Indexing

Sitemaps help search engines find and index all pages of your site. This is especially important for new pages or content that doesn't have links from other pages.

SEO Performance

A well-structured sitemap can help search engines better understand your content and improve your rankings.

Faster Discovery

Your new content is discovered and indexed faster by search engines through your sitemap.

Site Structure Analysis

Sitemaps help you visualize and analyze your website's structure and hierarchy.

Note

A sitemap is just one component of your site's SEO efforts. Other SEO factors like quality content, fast page loading times, mobile compatibility, and strong backlink profile are also important.

4. Features

Our Advanced Sitemap Generator has many powerful features not found in other sitemap tools. Here are some of the standout features:

Smart Crawling

Automatically discovers all pages and media elements on your site with an advanced crawler.

Media Support

Provides comprehensive support for images, videos, and PDF files, enabling their inclusion in the sitemap.

Link Validation

Detects and reports broken links, so you can fix issues before creating your sitemap.

Customizable Settings

You can customize parameters such as crawl depth, URL limit, priority, and change frequency.

Search Engine Integration

You can directly submit generated sitemaps to search engines like Google, Bing, and Yandex.

Secure & Multi-User

With secure design, multiple users can simultaneously create sitemaps for different sites.

Compression Support

Features automatic GZip compression for large sitemaps.

robots.txt Integration

Can automatically create or update robots.txt file and add sitemap references.

Multi-Language Support

Suitable for international use with Turkish and English language options.

5. Usage Guide

Using the Advanced Sitemap Generator is quite simple. Below are step-by-step instructions to get maximum efficiency from the tool.

5.1. Basic Usage

  1. Enter Website URL: Enter the full URL of the website you want to create a sitemap for (e.g., https://example.com).
  2. Starting URL (Optional): If you want to start crawling from a specific page, you can specify a starting URL.
  3. Crawl Depth: Determine how deep the crawler should go into your site. For example, 1 crawls only the homepage, 2 crawls the homepage and directly linked pages, etc.
  4. Media Options: Choose whether to include images, videos, or PDFs in the sitemap.
  5. Click "Generate Sitemap" button: The crawling process will start and your sitemap will be created.
Tip

For small and medium-sized sites, keeping the crawl depth between 5-10 is usually sufficient. For large sites, you can increase the depth or use different starting URLs to target specific sections.

5.2. Advanced Settings

Sitemap Settings

  • Sitemap File Name: Specify the name of the XML file to be created (default: sitemap.xml).
  • Maximum URLs per Sitemap: Set the maximum number of URLs in a sitemap file (Google limit: 50,000).
  • Change Frequency: Set the default change frequency for URLs (always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never).
  • Priority: Set the default priority value for URLs (between 0.0 - 1.0).

Validation Settings

  • Validate Links: Check the validity of links during crawling and detect broken links.
  • Follow External Links: If enabled, the crawler will also follow links to external sites (usually recommended to keep disabled).

Advanced Settings

  • Respect robots.txt: If enabled, the crawler respects robots.txt rules and doesn't include blocked URLs in the sitemap.
  • Update robots.txt: Update the robots.txt file after creating the sitemap to add sitemap references.
  • Create GZip Compressed Version: Also create a .gz compressed version of the sitemap (recommended for large sitemaps).

5.3. Results

After the sitemap generation process is completed, you will see a results screen containing the following information and options:

Statistics

  • Total URLs: Total number of URLs included in the sitemap.
  • Total Images: Number of images included in the sitemap.
  • Total Videos: Number of videos included in the sitemap.
  • Sitemap Size: Size of the generated sitemap file.

Status

  • Discovered URLs: Total number of URLs found during crawling.
  • Processed URLs: Number of URLs processed and analyzed.
  • Valid URLs: Number of valid URLs included in the sitemap.
  • Invalid URLs: Number of broken or inaccessible URLs.

Generated Files

You can view, download, and submit the generated sitemap files to search engines:

  • View: Use to see the sitemap XML file in your browser.
  • Download: Use to download the sitemap file to your computer.
  • Submit to Search Engines: Directly notify search engines like Google, Bing, and Yandex about your sitemap.

6. Comparison

A comprehensive comparison showing the advantages and differences of the Advanced Sitemap Generator compared to other similar tools:

Feature Advanced Sitemap Generator Basic Sitemap Tools WordPress Plugins
Automatic Crawling Comprehensive Limited WordPress Content Only
Media Support (Image, Video, PDF) Comprehensive Limited/None Partial
Link Validation Yes Usually No Some Plugins
Customizability High Limited Medium
Multi-Sitemap Support Yes Mostly No Some Plugins
Search Engine Submission Automatic Manual Partially Automatic
Multi-User Support Yes Usually No WordPress Multi-User
Crawl Depth Control Full Control Limited Limited
Language Support Multi-Language Usually Single Language WordPress Language Dependent
robots.txt Integration Full Usually No Partial
Security High Variable Depends on WordPress Security

Why Choose Us

The Advanced Sitemap Generator offers more comprehensive features, higher customizability, and a more secure infrastructure compared to other tools on the market. With multi-user support and a user-friendly interface, it's a perfect solution for both small blog owners and large corporate websites.

7. Technical Details

The Advanced Sitemap Generator is a powerful application developed using modern web technologies. Here are the technologies used and its technical specifications:

Technology Stack

  • Server Side: PHP 7.4+ (PHP 8.x compatible)
  • Client Side: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6)
  • User Interface: Responsive design with Bootstrap 5
  • Storage: File-based storage system (user-based separation)
  • AJAX: Real-time process status updates

System Requirements

  • PHP 7.4 or higher
  • cURL extension enabled
  • libxml extension enabled
  • GZip support (required for compression feature)
  • File write permissions

Security Features

  • User Isolation: Unique storage directories for each user
  • CSRF Protection: Security token verification in form submissions
  • XSS Protection: All user inputs are safely validated and sanitized
  • Path Traversal Protection: Security checks in file operations
  • Automatic Cleanup: Periodic cleaning of old files

Performance Optimization

  • Multi-Process Support: Parallel crawling capabilities for large sites
  • Smart Caching: Prevents re-crawling of the same URLs
  • Progressive Crawling: Depth-based crawling strategy
  • Efficient XML Generation: Memory-optimized XML generation mechanism

Scalability

The system is designed for websites of all sizes, from small blogs to large e-commerce sites with millions of pages. Key scalability features:

  • Automatic sitemap indexing (for 50,000+ URLs)
  • Progressive crawling and processing
  • Low resource usage
  • Configurable crawling with size and depth limitations

8. Frequently Asked Questions

The update frequency of your sitemap depends on how often your website is updated:

  • Frequently updated sites (blogs, news sites): 1-2 times per week
  • Moderately updated sites: 1-2 times per month
  • Rarely updated static sites: Every 3-6 months

Additionally, it's recommended to update your sitemap when you make significant structural changes to your site or add a lot of new content.

There are several ways to notify search engines about your sitemap:

  1. Direct submission through the tool: Advanced Sitemap Generator offers a "Submit to Search Engines" option after creating your sitemap.
  2. Search Engine Webmaster Tools: You can manually add your sitemap to platforms like Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools.
  3. Through robots.txt: The tool can add your sitemap location to your robots.txt file.

The most effective method is to both submit directly to Webmaster Tools and specify your sitemap in the robots.txt file.

Pages you should not include in your sitemap:

  • Low quality or duplicate content: Repetitive, poor content pages.
  • Private/membership pages: Pages requiring user login.
  • Filtering/sorting pages: URLs showing different variations of the same content.
  • Pages blocked by robots.txt: Pages already blocked from crawling.
  • Pages with noindex meta tag: Pages not intended for indexing.
  • Internal search results: Site search result pages.
  • Admin panel or management pages: For security reasons.

The Advanced Sitemap Generator automatically excludes blocked pages when the "Respect robots.txt" option is enabled.

It's recommended to set change frequency and priority values according to content types:

Change Frequency (changefreq):
  • always/hourly: Breaking news, live results, stock prices.
  • daily: Active blogs, news sites, forum homepages.
  • weekly: Blog categories, weekly updated product lists.
  • monthly: Product pages, service information.
  • yearly/never: About us, Privacy Policy, contact pages.
Priority (priority):
  • 1.0: Homepage
  • 0.8-0.9: Important category pages, main content pages
  • 0.6-0.7: Product pages, blog posts
  • 0.4-0.5: Secondary content pages
  • 0.1-0.3: Archive pages, tag pages

Note: Search engines may not always consider these values, but they can be helpful for understanding your site structure and content importance hierarchy.

If your sitemap is too large, you can apply the following solutions:

  1. Use Sitemap Index: Advanced Sitemap Generator automatically creates a sitemap index for more than 50,000 URLs.
  2. GZip Compression: Enable the "Create GZip Compressed Version" option.
  3. Split into Sections: Divide your site into logical sections (e.g., by categories) and create separate sitemaps for each section.
  4. Split by Content Type: Create separate sitemaps for main pages, images, videos.

For sitemaps larger than 10 MB or containing more than 50,000 URLs, our tool will automatically create multiple files and generate a sitemap index.

Advanced Sitemap Generator stores generated sitemaps for 24 hours (1 day). After this period, files are automatically cleaned up.

For long-term storage, it's recommended to save generated sitemaps to your own computer using the "Download" option and then upload them to your website.