Create Text Sitemaps with Text Sitemap Generator

Before creating the text sitemap conaining the list of website URLs, A1 Sitemap Generator needs to crawl your site. In the Scan website tab, enter your website address and click Start scan.



In the Create sitemap tab, choose Text sitemap and click the Build now button.

This creates a text file sitemap that is compatible wih almost all search engines.

Following are best practices and info about text sitemaps:

• Often named urllist.txt as this was historically the default for Yahoo.
• Almost always use .txt as file extension.
• Contain one URL per line.
• Contain a maximum of 50.000 URLs.
• Are best saved as UTF-8 documents.

When you are done creating the text sitemap file, it will contain a list of URLs looking like this:

http://www.example.com/ http://www.example.com/some-URL/

You can now start to submit the generated file to search engines like Google.