How to submit a sitemap to google

How to submit sitemap to
Google
Category: Store Promotion

Eshopbox Wiki for Store Owners

Welcome to Eshopbox Wiki

What you will learn here

▪ What does Sitemap mean

▪ Why should one submit Sitemap to Google

▪ How to submit Sitemap to Google

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What does Sitemap mean


What does Sitemap means

▪ Sitemap is the list of all pages that your store contains and helps Google
in discovering all the pages of your eshopbox site

▪ Sitemap helps visitors and search engine crawler find different pages on
your eshopbox site with ease


2
Why should one submit
Sitemap to Google


Why should one submit Sitemap to Google

▪ Sitemaps are submitted with a purpose of making sure that all the
pages of your eshopbox site get indexed by Google
▪ Sitemaps are helpful if your store pages contains heavy images or
dynamic content that cannot be discovered easily by Google search
engine
▪ Sitemaps are useful especially in case of new site, which has few links
connected to it
▪ Majority of internet users use Google as their search tool in comparison
to others. Submitting the sitemap to Google speeds up the discovery
process and provides better search results


3
How to submit Sitemap to
Google


How to submit Sitemap to Google
Step 1:
▪ Go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/ by clicking on the link or
by copy and pasting it on the address bar of your browser

▪ Click on ‘Sign in to Webmasters Tool’ button and you will be directed to
Google Webmasters Tools account page

Sign in to
Webmasters
Tool tab


Step 2:
▪ On the Google Webmasters Tools account page login with your Gmail
account id and password
▪ In case you don’t have a Gmail account click on ‘Sign up for new Google
account’ button to create a Gmail account

Sign up for new Google account
Google Webmasters
Tool account page

Sign-in
details


Step 3:
▪ Login with your Gmail account id and password and you will be directed
to Google Webmasters Tool home page
▪ Click on the name of the website you want to add sitemap for

Google Webmasters Tool home page

www.example123.com
www.example.com

Name of the website


Step 4:
▪ Once you click the name of the website you will be directed to
‘Webmasters tool dashboard’ page
▪ Click on the ‘Submit a Sitemap’ button and you will be directed to
‘Sitemaps’ page
Webmasters tool
dashboard page

www.example.com

Selected
website
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5
Example 6
Example 7
Example 8
Example 9
Example 10

Submit a Sitemap button


Step 5:
▪ On the ‘Sitemaps’ page, click on the ‘Submit a Sitemap’ button and you
will get a blank text field pop-up

Sitemaps page

www.example.com

Submit a sitemap button
http://www.example.com

Text field


Step 6:
▪ In the blank text field provided write down “Sitemap.xml”
▪ Click on the ‘Submit Sitemap’ button to complete the submission
process
▪ Now you have successfully completed the process
Sitemaps page

www.example.com

http://www.example.com Sitemap.xml

Enter ‘Sitemap.xml’
Submit sitemap button


Good to know
▪ Sitemaps increases the chances that search engines will find URLs you
want indexed

▪ You can set a priority and last modification date on your more
important pages to ensure regular crawling

▪ Keywords will get more prominence and more search results for your
Eshopbox site

▪ Promotion of your Eshopbox site with minimal or no cost for
advertising

▪ In order to submit sitemap of your Eshopbox site, you will have to
verify your store first

▪ View our ‘How to verify your Eshopbox site with Google’ wiki to
understand the steps required for the verification


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