How to Submit Sitemap to Google Search Console

Submit Sitemap to Google Search Console, that’s the thing you’ll learn here, and learn how to connect your website to Google Search Console. Google Search Console can be used to collect organic data, find website errors and have pages indexed. This is a very important tool for every website that wants to be found in the Google Search Results. We’re here for a quick guide on how to submit a sitemap to Google Search Console, but also on how to connect Google Search Console to your website.

Connect your website with Google Search Console

1. Go to https://search.google.com/u/1/search-console
2. Log in with your Google account
   2 a. If there is no pop-up: click on the top-left dropdown and select add property to add a new website
3. Choose the right-side URL prefix in the pop-up and paste the URL of the website you want to submit there
4. You now need to verify the property and there are several methods for that, we are going to use a simple one and that is an HTML tag
5. Select a part from the URL as shown in bold below: <meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”tTdzjZlj_KwXmnjptG_VAl9WCH88IzdmuKmWJoXUaEw” />
6. The selected code can be added using Yoast SEO for a WordPress website
7. Log in to the WordPress environment in a new tab
8. Go to the Yoast SEO plugin in the left menu (if it’s not on there yet, you may install it – the free version)
9. Yoast SEO > General
10. Go to the Webmaster Tools tab
11. There, add the code you copied at the Google verification code
12. Click on Save Changes
13. Go back to the Google Search Console tab in the browser
14. Click on VERIFY at the HTML tag
15. If all goes well, you will automatically go to the next page and have your website signed in to Google Search Console

Submit Sitemap to Google Search Console

1. After logging in to Google Search Console, find the property for which you want to submit the sitemap
2. Go to Sitemaps in the menu
3. Open the website from which you want to submit the sitemap in a new tab and type in the URL, including sitemap.xml (Example: https://yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml)
4. Next, you will see a sitemap (the URL may have changed, for example, Yoast will redirect the sitemap to sitemap_index.xml)
5. Copy the part of the URL that contains the sitemap, probably this part: sitemap_index.xml
6. Make sure no / is used before or after the URL
7. Return to the Google Search Console tab
8. Add the part of the URL of the sitemap as can be seen down below and click on the Submit button

You’re now done with this ‘Submit sitemap to Google Search Console’ article! I hope it all worked out for you.

Conclusion

Submitting your sitemap with Google Search Console will help Google with scraping your website. Using the sitemap Google knows the structure of your website, which makes it easier for Google to find all the pages there are.

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