Create URL List Files with Text Sitemap Generator
Creating a URL list text sitemap file is a quick and easy solution for submitting your website URLs to search engines.
Before creating the text sitemap conaining the list of website URLs,
A1 Sitemap Generator needs to scan your website.
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 selected 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.
- Uses one URL per line.
- Can contain a maximum of 50.000 URLs.
- Are best saved as UTF-8 documents.
When you are done creating the
urllist.txt sitemap file, it will contain a list of URLs which looks similar to this:
http://www.example.com/
http://www.example.com/some-URL/
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You can now submit the generated text file to search engines like Google.