How to Submit Sitemap to Search Engines

Sitemaps aids search engines to know pages, and post which are present on your site. Do you want to know how to get it submitted?  In this article, you will learn how to submit your WordPress and Blogspot sitemap to the top search engines in the world, Google webmaster aka Google Search Console, and Bing Webmaster.

After submitting your site to the search engine, it is very important you submit the sitemap. If the pages on your page are not discovered by search engine bot, then they can’t be indexed and you can never get organic Traffic.

How To Submit Sitemap to Google Search Console (GSC)

WordPress

1. Login to your GSC
2. Click on Sitemap on the left side of the page
3. Go to your WordPress site, install, activate and set up Rank math plugin
4. Click on Rankmaths>>sitemap at the left side of your WordPress site.
5. Then, click on the sitemap to view the sitemaps generated by Rank math. 
6. Copy each of the sitemaps generated and paste it into the box in GSC and click submit.
7. Lastly, also paste the main sitemap

Blogger (Blogspot)

1. Go to GSC
2. Click on Sitemap
3. All you have to do is type sitemap.xml 
4. Finally, click submit

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How to Submit Sitemap to Bing Webmaster

This can be done in two ways:

Manually

1. Visit Bing Webmaster
2. Login to your account
3. Click on sitemap
4. Then click submit sitemap at the top of the page
5. Go to your WordPress site, install, activate and set up Rank math plugin
6. Click on Rankmaths>>sitemap at the left side of your WordPress site.
7. Then, click on the sitemap to view the sitemaps generated by Rank math.
8. Copy each of the sitemaps generated and paste it in the box in Bing webmaster
9. Lastly, click submit.

Automatically With GSC

If you submitted your URL to Bing using your Gmail that is connected to your GSC. You don’t need to submit your sitemap. It has been automatically submitted to Bing.

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When should I submit a sitemap?

You should submit it when you have set up the structure of your site. For an old site, it should be re-submit when you make changes to your site’s structure.

Do you have to submit a sitemap?

No, you don’t have to submit it but it is very important you do for easy easy crawling of your site by search engines.

How Do I Check XML Sitemap File

There are 2 ways that you are recommended to use:

1. Web address

Often, to check the sitemap file not only for your site but also for other domains, you can enter the following URL:

https://yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml

This method works almost every time. The search engine will immediately display the sitemap file of a specific site.

2. Google Search Console

This is a much better and more efficient way. Why? Because in the Google Search Console, you can not only check Sitemap files but also manage them: change, add or delete them.

The Sitemap report can be found in your Google Search Console account in the Index section. There you will check all your submitted Sitemaps and the most important information: when they were added, what their status is, or how many URLs they contain.

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