How To Submit Sitemap In Google Webmaster Tool ?
How To Submit Sitemap In Google Webmaster Tool?
When we start any website or any blog there is one most common issue is that How to our website will Display in Google search or on other search engines?
Whenever we talk to newbie user who is not aware with search engines they think that they have to pay Google or other search engine to list their websites. that’s not true .it can possible if you understand search engines working process .its called web mastering .you can submit your site or blog in Google search engine free .for this you have to do some work with help of GWT (Google webmaster tool) and index your site links in Google search.
When you submitted your site in Google search engine, after that you have to submit sitemap in Google Webmaster Tool to index your Web-link and web-pages.so Google bot can crawl your all site links for better search result.
What Is sitemap And Why It Is Important?
Basically sitemap is a XML file that contains all URLs of your blog or website .sitemap helps to Google bots to see your all web-pages, links and all other links that’s are in your website or blog. In a simple sentence Sitemap are bunch of all links of any website by that Google bot Follow sitemap files to crawl and index your website.
How To Create Sitemap?
normally there are so many tools are available online by using them we can generate sitemap without any cost. Use any XML sitemap Generator to create sitemap and submit it to Webmaster Tool which is offered by Google and bing. If you are using WordPress for your blog you can use plugging that automatically keep updating your sitemap as you post or publish any new article in website or blog. By this you never need to update your sitemap at the time of new article publishing but remember it’s important that your all post should be indexed.
Submit Your Blog Sitemap In Google Webmaster Tool
here we are telling you full detail process to submit a sitemap in webmaster tool.
Quick Point To Submit Sitemap In Google Webmaster Tool
- Login in Google Webmaster Tool
- Verify website ownership by meta tag{ if already verify then select website}
- Click on crawl section and select Sitemap { Dashboard>crawl>sitemap }
- Click on “Add /test Sitemap” red button in left corner.
- Enter/style/feed/sitemap into the text box that appears.
- Click on submit sitemap.
Submit Sitemap In Google Webmaster Tool —- Full Detail Guide.
Generate sitemap : Before submitting a sitemap in Google webmaster Tool generate your sitemap by using https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ and download your xml sitemap .in the below screenshot you can see different types of sitemap for www.99mediasector.com
Ok now let’s come to webmaster tool and login with Google ID .after login in GWT{Google webmaster tool account} you can see a “ADD A Property” button in right side of page.”ADD a PROPERTY” is here to verify your website ownership. You can verify your blog or site in Webmaster tool by using these methods
- Add a Meta tag in your homepage.
- Upload an HTML file in your server.
- You can also verify via Domain Name Provider and add a new DNS record.
- Verify your site ownership by adding Google Analytics code you use to track your site.
If you are using wordpress platform then read our full post on “How to add XML sitemap in WordPress site?”.
ADD Sitemap
As we are showing a screen –shot of Webmaster Tool .you can see there is an option button with “Sitemap” in right hand side in Google webmaster Tool .just click on that button and submit your New Sitemap.
In our next screen shot you can see Red color Button “Add/test Sitemap” .Now click on “Add/test Sitemap” to submit your sitemap file.
Remember that if you are running a website or blog with lots of images so try to use Image sitemap generator .you have to use video sitemap generator for video containing website.
Alternate Process: open your website dashboard in GWT .click on “Crawl “section and select “Sitemap” option .now you will see a “ADD/TEST SITEMAP” button in right side .just click on it and pate your sitemap here and submit your sitemap.
Dashboard>crawl>sitemap>add/test sitemap>submit sitemap
What is Next?
after submitting of sitemap now you are free. if you are submitting any new site here, it can take some time to display your Indexed status. Once Google bot crawl your site your status will be display .with Index status you can see how many URls are submitted via sitemap generator and how many links are Indexed in Google search.
If you see upper screen-shot you can see 4571 links are submitted by Sitemap Generator and 4762 links are indexed in Google Search engine.
NOTE: webmaster tool can take some days to display your Index status .so doesn’t resubmit your sitemap again and again.
How to Check Website or blog are Indexed in Google Search Engine or Not
To check that website is indexed in search engine is easy process .open Google.com and type Site:www.yoursite.com and click enter .you will see all indexed file in search result. process is same for other search engine like: Bing ,Yahoo etc.