How to Submit Sitemap URL to Google Webmaster 【Easy Tutorial】

How to Submit Sitemap URL to Google Webmaster 【Easy Tutorial】

Have you created a new blog or a website? And you have written a good amount of posts or written the required content for your websites.

But still, your website is not appearing on Google Search. And you have tried everything thing to make your website visible.

Then this post on How to submit the sitemap to Google 【Ultimate & Easy Guide】is just for you.

Before jumping on the main thread on submitting the sitemap to the google search console let's talk on a few other questions.

1. What is a Sitemap?
 0.1 - Why it is important to submit the sitemap to Google Search Console?
 0.2 - What, if the sitemap is not submitted?
2. What is the Google Search Console?
3. How to generate a sitemap for your blog or website?
4. How to submit a sitemap to Google Search Console?

Well, these are the few related questions on sitemaps which makes you clear about everything related to GWT & Sitemap.

How to add a sitemap

#01 What is a Sitemap?

A sitemap is the data of your website or blog organized in a well-structured form especially in the form of Extensible Markup Language (XML).

To understand the term "Sitemap" let's have, word to word meaning of sitemap.

As the name itself has the words site+map and now you can easily guess their meaning site means your website (in a general way) and map means the overall structure or address of the website.

So now you may get these terms site & map which are nothing instead of the structured URL list data of websites or blogs in the form of XML.

Talking on more about a sitemap then it becomes important to tell you about the types of sitemap.

So basically there are only three types of sitemap which can be seen which are:

1. Pre Sitemap - Sitemap used before website
designing or used during the planning of a website by its designers.

2. Live Sitemap - It is a human viable sitemap present on the website page for the easiest way to explore the website or typically a kind of human visible listing of web data, in a hierarchical manner.

For better understanding see this page of our blog. "Example of Hierarchical Sitemap"

3. Post Sitemap (XML Sitemap) - These sitemaps are actually the most important sitemaps for each and every blog and website. Basically, an intended web data generated in the form XML to allow crawlers to crawl the website which is submitted to webmaster tools.

To learn more about the sitemap in detail please refer to this source: Site map

Why an XML Sitemap is important for a website or a blog?

Well, as I told you in the above paragraphs that sitemap is responsible for your website online presence.

When you are done with the contents on your website or want to see your website on Google Search Console.

Then, in that order, you need to submit an XML sitemap for your blog or website to Google Webmaster Tool (other webmaster tools like Bing Webmaster Tool, Yandex Webmaster Tool, etc.)

So basically to have a proper listing of your web data such as pages and posts, submitting the XML sitemap is important.

What happens if the sitemap is not submitted?

Creating a new website is easy after having a detailed ultimate guide but to make it visible on the search engines you need to inform the crawlers about your website.

If you haven't submitted the sitemap to various webmasters the possibility of appearing your website on the search engine is less than 0.5 out of 1.

Clearly without submitting the sitemaps its be very hard to make a website visible on the searches.

Maybe after sometimes (~ 3 or 4 months) somehow few pages of the website are visible on the web but after that also full website data are not visible.

This is only because of the unavailability of a sitemap of the website or a blog.

To overcome this unwanted problem you need to submit the sitemap of your blog or website to the search console.

#02 What is a Google Search Console?

Google Search Console (formerly known as Google Webmaster Tool) is a free web tool for webmasters that helps to monitor, troubleshoot and maintain the presence of blogs and websites in the google search results

Actually, it is not necessary to sign up for Google Webmaster Tool to make your website appear in Google searches.

But having a GWT account gives you more power to manage and maintain your blog and website live.

But if you don't want to have a GWT account still you can request your website pages or posts to be crawled by the given below syntax.

To submit a particular URL without having a GWT account you need to enter this ("http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl").

Don't forget to replace "addurl" with your own URL to which you want to add.

Note - Submitting your link to google through this URL submission method is not so much working may you face problems in doing that so I suggest you go with the GWT account method.

#03. How to generate a sitemap for your blog or website?

Generating a sitemap might be a difficult task only if we don't have any other options then coding.

Hold on, let me tell you nowadays we have a number of websites are available through which we can easily generate a sitemap.

It doesn't matter whether your website on blogger or WordPress you can easily generate a sitemap for your website with the help of online tools.

But, it matters on the subject of availability suppose if you are hosting your website on Wordpress.

Then you don't need any other tools to generate a sitemap. With the help of plugins, you can easily generate it.

But if you are using blogger then also you don't need to generate a sitemap as I had told you blogger has default sitemap.

You just need to add "sitemap.xml" at the end of your canonical URL. And you are done.

If you are not believing then do check it right now see: CLICK TO SEE DEMO

But if you want to add a custom sitemap to Google Search Console then you can easily generate a sitemap.

Here are 4 online tools with the help of these you can easily generate a sitemap.

1. Labnol.org
2.  My Sitemap Generator
3. My Blogger Tricks
4. XML Sitemaps

#04 How to submit a sitemap to Google Search Console?

Submitting the sitemap to Google Search Console is not a difficult task, its very easy just have a look at the steps given below and  follow the steps:

Step 1. Log into the Google Search Console account.

Step 2. Select your default property or your required property if you have multiples property.

Select Property

Step 3. Hover to menus available on the top left corner.

Step 4. Now, select the sitemap option available under the index below the coverage option.

Select Sitemap

Step 5. On the next window, now you can add a sitemap to your blog or website.

Note - If you are using the Blogger platform form then you don't need to create or generate a sitemap. By default, the blogger has a default sitemap "https://blogname.bligspot.com/sitemap.xml" you can just add that.

Step 6. For adding a blogger sitemap, just enter the "sitemap.xml" after the canonical URL.

Step 7. After entering the required value after your canonical URL you are done.

Congratulations! you have successfully added a sitemap to Google Search Console.

Conclusion on How to Submit a Sitemap To Google

Adding a sitemap to Google Search Console or Google Webmaster Tool is important to be visible on the Google search.

We have also seen that a new website can take time to be crawled by Google crawler.

And we also discuss the importance of sitemaps and their type whereas the main sitemap is a sitemap in the form XML which is intended to crawl by Google bot.

After creating a GWT account you will get some special features such as to maintain, troubleshoot, etc.

This means you have full access to your web performance after singing up to google webmaster tool.

So I think setting up an account on Google Webmaster is important and you all should do that.

Well, that's all about this post "How to submit sitemap URL to Google Webmaster 【Easy Tutorial. If you have any query related to this then please let us know in the comment section.