Generate Visual Sitemap & XML

Visual Sitemap is a hierarchical diagram which allows people to understand the website structure, interrelationships between the pages (sections) and the navigation mechanism. It is often used as a starting point in website development.

A visual sitemap is essential for both planning and optimizing website navigation. It helps you see the hierarchy of your pages, improve user experience, and ensure search engines can properly index your site. It’s also a great tool for collaborating with designers, developers, and stakeholders.

Yes, our visual sitemap builder allows you to fully customize the layout. You can easily add, remove, or rearrange pages, change categories, and set relationships between parent and child pages to match your website’s unique structure.
We recommend starting with sitemap generator - it will create a sitemap of any website, ready for edits and changes.

The Octopus.do sitemap builder requires no coding or technical expertise. It uses drag-and-drop functionality and pre-designed templates. You don’t need any coding or technical expertise to create a sitemap for your website.

Visual Sitemap Generator is a tool helping visualize the existing website structure as a hierarchical diagram (visual sitemap). Sitemap generator has two options:

Crawling, a more complex and lengthy method, most often isn’t free. It is not dependent on the presence or completeness of the sitemap.xml file. The crawler scans each available page  for the required data, and creates a visual sitemap. It is a good solution if there is no sitemap XML file or if its contents are incomplete.

Using an existing sitemap XML file. This method is very quick. However, in cases when the file is absent or if its contents are incomplete, the visualization may be incomplete as well.

The Octopus.do sitemap generator uses an agent that visits the website just like search engines do, and makes a list of all links that are available in the HTML code. Then, it goes to the pages from the collected list, collects the links on that page and adds them to the list, then repeats this until all available links are collected.
Along the way, crawler collects SEO tags to build content blocks in the visual sitemap.

Octopus.do sitemap generator can access any public website that doesn't have specific security settings that could limit crawler access, or limitations drawn in robots.txt file.

XML sitemap file helps search engines like Google analyze the website by describing the hierarchy of pages and their interrelationships. This, in turn, has a positive impact on SEO. Clarity of structure description and syntax used play a vital role in XML sitemaps.

Sitemap XML file is usually computer-generated using a certain format (XML) from a finished visual website structure or a working website. The majority of CMS, such as WordPress, generate the sitemap file automatically from a finished website. Another way of creating sitemaps is to use services such as the Sitemap Generator.

Usually the sitemap XML file is located here - example.com/sitemap.xml. However, there are cases when the file simply doesn’t exist or is located elsewhere, e.g. on another domain or under a different file name.

Meta tags are HTML tags designed to provide structured metadata about a web page to search engines. The most popular meta tags are title and description.