What is Sitemap Generator?
A tool emitting the XML sitemap from a site’s real URL inventory. Generators must read canonical targets and indexation state, not just crawl output, or they advertise URLs engines should ignore.
Related terms
XML Sitemap
A machine-readable list of canonical URLs worth crawling, optionally with last-modified dates. One file holds 50,000 URLs or 50 MB uncompressed; larger sites segment by template or locale.
Canonical Tag
A hint (rel="canonical") naming the preferred URL when duplicates exist. Only about three in five pages web-wide carry a valid one, so validation must cover target quality and conflicting signals.
Noindex Tag
A directive (meta robots or X-Robots-Tag) asking engines not to index a page. Correct for private, duplicate, staging, and utility pages; catastrophic when leaked onto money pages.
Technical SEO
The crawling, indexing, rendering, and performance work that lets search engines reach, understand, and serve your pages. It covers directives, architecture, speed, and structured data rather than words on the page.
Crawling
How search-engine bots discover pages by following links, sitemaps, and directives. If a URL is never crawled, it cannot be indexed no matter how good its content is.
Crawl Budget
The number of pages a search engine will crawl on a site in a given period, driven by server capacity and demand signals. Large or slow sites must spend it on indexable, valuable URLs.