How to create an XML sitemap?

Step 1 : Review the structure of your pages.

The first thing you need to do is look at your website’s existing content and see how everything is structured.

Step 2 : Code your URLs

Format each URL with XML tags for each page, which you wish the search engine to crawl for search results.

Step 3 : Validate the code.

Validate code with tools like XML SiteMap Validator

Step 4 : Add your sitemap to the root and robots.txt

Locate the root folder of your website and add the sitemap file to this folder and also to robots.txt

Step 5 : Submit your sitemap.

Submit your website to Google Search Console.

Example :

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.freetimelearning.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2017-10-04T22:37:13+00:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>

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