A Sitemap is a good way to tell search engines that your website is available and that it can be crawled by them. In this way search engines will be able to read and identify all the pages included in your website, identify which pages are important (priority) and how often they are updated (frequency).

Sitemaps are an important SEO factor that should not be underestimated, when you are trying to establish your SEO strategy.

Sitemaps are also readable by users but in natural language.

Search engines should read the Sitemaps in a language that they can understand, preferably in XML.

Google and Bing are the most important search engines and thus this post is going to focus on these two.

How to Generate a Sitemap

In case you are not aware of the fact that your website has a proper sitemap.xml (for all respective languages, if we are talking about a multilingual website), all you have to do is this in order to make sure that your site has a sitemap:

www.example.com/sitemap.xml

In case you have a…