How to submit your XML sitemap in search engine.
Quick Overview
The sitemap is a file containing a list of the pages of the website that is present on your website, sitemap is very important to increase the ranking of your website, for this submitting sitemap in search engine is very important.
A sitemap is the first step, since submitting a sitemap allows search engines to crawl your website, after which search engine crawlers crawl your website’s pages, articles, and more content crawlers then update the content in their database.
Today we learn How to Submit Your XML Sitemap in a Search Engine.
Types of Sitemap
There are two types of sitemap
- HTML Sitemap
- XML Sitemap
HTML Sitemap
HTML sitemaps help users navigate the website, which we call the main menu or subcategory.
XML Sitemap
XML Sitemaps are divided into different types:
- Image Sitemap
- Video sitemap
- News sitemap
- Mobile sitemap
Top 3 Search engine
- Bing
- Yandex
Google Search Engine
Google is the largest search engine in the world, and everybody likes it very much as a search engine, if you have not yet submitted Sitemap to Google, you can submit Sitemap by following the instruction given below.
How to submit your sitemap in Google Search
Go to Google search console website
Click here to Start Now and select URL prefix and enter your website URL, and then click continue.
After that verify your domain ownership, the google search console give you some different methods to verifying the ownership.
After the domain ownership is verified, you have to go to the sitemap section and submit a sitemap.
Your website sitemap link should be http://yoursitename.com/sitemap.xml or http://yoursitename.com/sitemap_index.xml
The sitemap tells search engines about the important pages of the website.
How to submit your sitemap in Bing webmaster tools
If you have not submitted your website sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools then you can follow these steps.
- Go to Bing webmaster tools website
- Sign in with Microsoft account and google account
- On the My Sites page, select your website
- In the left side, click on Configure My Site and then Sitemap
- Select: http://yoursitename.com/sitemap.xml or http://yoursitename.com/sitemap_index.xml
- Click Submit
Sitemap Submit in Yandex webmaster
If you have not submitted your website sitemap to Yandex Webmaster then you can follow these steps.
- Go to the Yandex Webmaster website
- Sign in and go on the home page, select your website.
- Then on the left side, click Indexing Options and then Sitemap files
- Select: http://yoursitename.com/sitemap.xml or http://yoursitename.com/sitemap_index.xml
- Click Add
