# Sitemap for Netlify Site

**URL:** <https://answers.netlify.com/t/sitemap-for-netlify-site/55428>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** netlify-newbie\
**Created:** [April 24, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/sitemap-for-netlify-site/55428 "2022-04-24T12:55:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Skakfome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/netlify/user_avatar/answers.netlify.com/skakfome/32/23695_2.png) [@Skakfome](https://answers.netlify.com/u/Skakfome)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/sitemap-for-netlify-site/55428/1 "2022-04-24T12:55:34Z")

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I have a website with the url : [https://chessnewtab.netlify.app](https://chessnewtab.netlify.app).

I want to make a sitemap for it, but I cannot understand how to do it using the plugin.  
I don’t understand how to get to the netlify.toml file either.

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**Author:** ![hrishikesh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/netlify/user_avatar/answers.netlify.com/hrishikesh/32/74607_2.png) [@hrishikesh](https://answers.netlify.com/u/hrishikesh)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/sitemap-for-netlify-site/55428/2 "2022-04-24T13:52:34Z")

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Hey @Skakfome,

That website doesn’t need a sitemap. It just has 1 page - that’s the `index.html` and it’s not generated using a framework like React. So, there are no additional pages that a search engine would need to find.

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**Author:** ![Skakfome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/netlify/user_avatar/answers.netlify.com/skakfome/32/23695_2.png) [@Skakfome](https://answers.netlify.com/u/Skakfome)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 7:41am UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/sitemap-for-netlify-site/55428/3 "2022-05-04T07:41:17Z")

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But I cannot add it to a search engine without a sitemap.

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**Author:** ![nathanmartin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/netlify/user_avatar/answers.netlify.com/nathanmartin/32/30845_2.png) [@nathanmartin](https://answers.netlify.com/u/nathanmartin)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 8:24am UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/sitemap-for-netlify-site/55428/4 "2022-05-04T08:24:53Z")

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You can manually make a sitemap file, just create a file called `sitemap.xml` and follow the specification.

[https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html](https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html)

```auto
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.example.com/foo.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2018-06-04</lastmod>
  </url>
</urlset>

```

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**Author:** ![Skakfome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/netlify/user_avatar/answers.netlify.com/skakfome/32/23695_2.png) [@Skakfome](https://answers.netlify.com/u/Skakfome)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://answers.netlify.com/t/sitemap-for-netlify-site/55428/5 "2022-07-09T14:51:34Z")

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I have stopped working on this site, I will use this for my next website