How do I Submit My Sitemap to Google?

A question we often get asked is “How do I Submit My Sitemap to Google?”

In early 2018, Google introduced a new and improved version of its tool for webmasters. It made the process to index website Google a whole lot easier, through new tools for submitting sitemaps and URLs. The tool is perfect for those building a site from scratch and webmasters who are always on top of everything. But there are more than a few misconceptions about sitemaps.

What’s a Sitemap?

Like its name would suggest, it’s a sort of map of your website. You can send it to Google to provide details about your

What a sitemap does:

• It gives details about your pages, including videos and any other files in them.
• Helps Googlebot crawl around your site, already knowing the relationship between the pages.
• To index website Google, you can mark which pages are more important regarding SEO.

Must I Submit a Sitemap to Index Website Google?

You don’t have to, but it will make things easier. Google will be able to find your site either way, but it’ll be easier for Googlebot to crawl your pages with a sitemap. When you submit a sitemap, you’ve given Google directions around your site.

Take into consideration that Googlebot has hundreds of trillions of pages to crawl all the time. You want to be near the top of the list.

What Should I Use to Submit My Sitemap to Google?

As mentioned above, Google provides its free tool for webmasters to do this: Search Console. On this post, we’ll focus on its use as the means to submit a sitemap, but it serves many other purposes.

Some of the main ones are:

• Checking your index website Google status later on.
• Optimizing your visibility on the search engine.

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