(V5) Indexing your site with Google Sitemap and Google Search Console Print

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Before beginning, you must have your site registered on Google Search Console. See our Google Search Console knowledge base article about how to register your site on Google Search Console. It's also important to register and verify your site with Bing Webmaster Tools.

 

By following our tutorial, you will be able to submit your sitemap to Google for indexing. What this does is ensure that Google indexes your site's pages and URLs (to make it available on Google Search) much faster than not submitting your site to Google. Google will only submit pages that have good quality content, so make sure that your content is unique and SEO-friendly.

Here is a tutorial about how to submit a sitemap to Google Search Console:

  1. Navigate to your Ozcart admin area.
  2. Navigate to Data Feeds.
  3. Activate Google Sitemap.
  4. Log in to Google Search Console and make sure you're editing your Ozcart property (website).
  5. Click the Sitemaps button on the left side.
  6. Enter the Sitemap URL in the 'Add a new sitemap' field. There are 2 accepted ways to enter the Sitemap URL, depending on if you're entering it in your Domain property or the URL prefix property.
    1. Domain property: Enter your full URL with /sitemap.xml added to it, like this: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
    2. URL prefix property: Enter sitemap.xml
  7. Click SUBMIT.
  8. If your property is added as a URL prefix property, then do the same for every one of your 4 Ozcart properties (websites), such as the ones with https, http, www, and non-www. Follow the URL prefix property sitemap URL addition for each one. If your property is added as a domain property, then you only need to add the URL once.
  9. Google then begins working on it in the background. It might take a few minutes, a few hours, or a day before it shows a success status and the discovered pages/videos.

Google will then index your site daily and will indicate when was the last time it was read by Google. It will also warn you about broken links and other issues.


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