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The files and tags a site needs, written correctly

Generate the meta tags, crawler rules and sitemap a site needs, with the syntax handled for you and a preview of what each one actually does.

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These three files are unusual in that a small syntax mistake in any of them is both easy to make and expensive: one careless `Disallow: /` line keeps an entire site out of search results, and a malformed sitemap is quietly ignored. Generating them from a form removes the class of error that comes from typing them by hand.

Worth being straight about a limit here. These tools build files from what you give them — they do not crawl your website. The sitemap generator turns a list of URLs you supply into valid sitemap.xml; it cannot discover your pages for you, because a page in your browser is not allowed to fetch another site, and this one’s security policy forbids outbound connections in any case. If you need a crawler, you need software that runs on a server or on your desktop. If you already know your URLs — from a CMS export, a build script or your own sitemap route — this will produce the file.

Two things the robots.txt generator will not let you assume: `Disallow` controls crawling, not indexing, and a URL blocked there can still appear in results if other sites link to it. To remove a page from search you need a `noindex` directive on a page a crawler is allowed to fetch.

Frequently asked questions

No, and no browser-based tool can. A page is not permitted to fetch arbitrary other sites, and this one is additionally forbidden from making outbound connections at all. Supply your list of URLs — from a CMS export or your own build — and it will produce a valid sitemap.xml.

The rest of the toolbox

Every category works the same way — the file or the text stays on your device.