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Hi

I am wondering how to create a Sitemap for dynamic urls.
Any help?

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For : dynamic URLs are best handled by generating a sitemap from the canonical data your application already uses, rather than by crawling parameterized links. Off-the-shelf generators can be handy for small sites (as pointed out), but a server-side script that queries your database, emits only public canonical URLs, and writes a compressed sitemap on a schedule is more robust for production. The sitemap protocol limits (50,000 URLs and 50MB uncompressed) and sitemap-indexing rules are defined at Sitemaps.org.

A practical workflow:

  1. Select only canonical, public records (strip session IDs and remove duplicate query-strings).
  2. Output valid XML with escaped <loc> values and optional <lastmod>.
  3. If you exceed limits, create multiple sitemap files and a sitemap index.
  4. Compress (.gz), add the sitemap location to robots.txt, and submit to search consoles.
    Google's current guidance is here: Google Search Central — Sitemaps.

Example (minimal PHP pattern — adapt to your framework):

<?php
header('Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8');
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' . PHP_EOL;
echo '<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">' . PHP_EOL;

// fetch canonical rows from DB
// foreach row:
//   $loc = 'https://example.com/' . $row['slug'];
//   echo "  <url>\n";
//   echo "    <loc>" . htmlspecialchars($loc, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . "</loc>\n";
//   echo "    <lastmod>" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime($row['updated_at'])) . "</lastmod>\n";
//   echo "  </url>\n";

echo '</urlset>';
?>

Notes: use absolute URLs, escape XML entities, format lastmod as YYYY-MM-DD (or full ISO), and treat changefreq/priority as advisory only. For large sites prefer incremental updates or queued generation and monitor results in Search Console.

Member Avatar for jrafique

Hi

I am wondering how to create a Sitemap for dynamic urls.
Any help?

I'd try the unlimited tool at xml-sitemaps.com it's $20 and should do what you want to do. You could also start the free tool there on different pages, paste into a single xml file and delete duplicates by hand depending on how may pages you have.

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