Getting a sitemap for your site is simple. You can do it in three steps: generate a sitemap, upload it to your site and notify Google about it. There are two ways to generate a sitemap - either download and install a sitemap generator or use an online sitemap generation tool. There are a lot of options available here.
Some of them are free, but they often have a crawl cap on site URLs, so it’s up to you to decide which one to use.
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When choosing an XML sitemap generator, pick one that allows reviewing the crawls of URLs and deleting any duplicated URLs, excluded URLs, etc. - you only want to include the pages on the site that you want a search engine to index.
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Once you created a sitemap, you need to upload it to your site document root (http://example.com/sitemap.xml) and let Google know about it - this means that you need to add the site to your Google Sitemaps account.
