Having a website set up for SEO success will help Google crawl and index your pages. But submitting your site to Google can speed up this process further. That’s because this helps Google find your website even if it has no backlinks.
Finding or creating a sitemap
Sitemaps list the important pages on your website that you want search engines to index. If you already have a sitemap, it’ll likely be at one of these URLs:
- site.com/sitemap.xml
- site.com/sitemap_index.xml
If you can’t find it there, check site.com/robots.txt where it’s usually listed.
If you still can’t find it, you likely don’t have one and need to create one.
Submitting your sitemap
You do this via Google Search Console (GSC). It takes about two seconds.
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