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Teaching how to register a sitemap in Google Webmaster

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Registering the sitemap in Google is one of the most important measures to be taken in line with the SEO of the site. One of the best ways to introduce the sitemap to Google is to register the site in Google Webmaster. In this article, from the Fa host knowledge base, we have provided you with training on how to work with Google Search Console and exclusively on registering a sitemap in Google Webmaster. If you wish, stay with us until the end of this article.
The topics that will be discussed in this article are:

  • Sitemap registration in Google Webmaster Tools
  • What is a site map?
  • Sitemap training in the new Google console
  • Introducing the sitemap to Google through Google Search Console
  • Re-registration of the sitemap in Google Webmaster
  • Delete sitemap in Google Webmaster
  • Google search console sitemaps report

Sitemap registration in Google Webmaster

You can use Webmaster Tools sitemap report to introduce your sitemap to Google. Also, if you need to introduce a new site map or change it, you can do it this way. In addition, the data related to the sitemap submission history and the errors that occurred when analyzing the sitemap by Google will be reported to you. For this reason, using Google Search Console to introduce the sitemap is a very suitable possibility for all people active in the Internet field.

If you want to know more about Google Search Console and its very important features, you can read the article What is Google Search Console .

What is a site map?

A sitemap is actually a file on your site that shows the important pages that Google should know about. When you introduce your sitemap, Google can find your website pages more easily and quickly. As a result, the indexing speed of your website content increases. Keep in mind that the smaller the sitemap, the faster the website pages will be indexed. But this does not mean that you should not put part of the content of your website in your sitemap because it is shorter. All the pages of your website that you want to be seen by Google must be shown to Google in a specific file. Registering the sitemap in Google Webmaster is also the best option for this.

If you want to know more about the sitemap and its features, you can read the article sitemap ?

Sitemap training in the new Google console

As mentioned earlier, you can register, change or delete the role of your site using the sitemap tool in Google search console. In the following, we will teach you step by step how to register a sitemap in Google Webmaster and change or delete it.

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Introducing the sitemap to Google through Google Search Console

Introducing the sitemap is actually telling Google the exact address of all website pages. Since you cannot directly upload your sitemap file to Google, you must use the suggested methods. Registering the sitemap in Google Webmaster is one of those methods. For this purpose, you must proceed in the following order:

Prerequisites : You must be registered as a domain owner for the desired domain to be able to use sitemap reports. If this level of access is not available to you, it is better to register the sitemap through the robots.txt file of your website.

  1. Check which website pages should be crawled by search engines. Then the canonical version of each of those pages specify
  2. In the second step, you should decide on the format of your site map. Then check that the sitemap conforms to one of the accepted formats. Keep in mind that you can create the sitemap manually or use the available tools for this task.
    All approved formats are under 50MB in size and support 50,000 unique URLs. If your file is larger and has more than the specified number of links, you should divide it into several smaller sitemaps. Accepted formats for sitemap are:
    • XML Markup Language ( Extensible Markup Extensible Language ) created exclusively to show the configuration of the website to search engine crawlers.
    • RSS, mRSS and Atom 1.0 Really Simple Syndication an . is : XML format file for blogs and news sites The RSS file is automatically updated. As the owner of such a site, you can send the feed URL as a site map. You can also use the mRSS format, which stands for Media RSS, to display details about your video content.
    • TEXT : If your website only contains URLs of web pages, you can register a text file containing the URLs of the site in Google Search Console.
    • Google sites : If you have used Google Sites to create and register your website, you should know that the role of your site is created automatically. You cannot change this sitemap, but you can introduce it to Google.
  3. In the next step, you must register it through the Google search console. For this purpose, select the sitemap report through the webmaster tools counter.
  4. In the next step, enter the URL of your sitemap in the designated box and then click on the Submit option.
Our recommendation is to place a copy of your sitemap in the root of your site. You can read the articles on how to upload a file in cPanel and how to upload a file in Direct Admin .

Re-registration of the sitemap in Google Webmaster

You do not need to re-register the sitemap that has already been submitted to Google. Even if you have made a change in your sitemap, don’t worry at all. Google will notice the changes when it crawls your site.

Delete sitemap in Google Webmaster

The related information will be deleted from the search console report by deleting the sitemap. But it doesn’t make Google forget it. If you want to force Google to stop checking the list of URLs in your sitemap file, you should do it through robots.txt. In order to remove the sitemap, proceed as follows:

  1. Select the file you want to delete in the report section of your sitemap and click on it.
  2. Then click on the more button next to it as three dots.
  3. Next, select the Remove sitemap option from this section.
  4. Finally, enter your robots.txt and restrict Google’s access to the desired file or delete it altogether.

You can read the complete tutorial on the robots.txt file in the article on how to create a robots.txt file for WordPress and optimize it .

Google search console sitemaps report

In this google search console tutorial, we will explain the information you see in the sitemaps report. Before reviewing the information provided, you should know:

  • In this report, only the information related to the site maps registered through Google Search Console will be displayed. This means that if you have used other methods to register your sitemap, be sure to register it in Webmaster Tools. In this way, you can see the statistics provided for it.
  • In this report, only the site maps related to the registered domain are displayed.

If you have not yet registered your site in Webmaster Tools, you can read the guide to registering your site in Google Search Console .

  • You can also register the URLs of news, videos and images of your website in your sitemap. However, information about these URLs is not displayed in the Google Search Console report.

The information shown for each sitemap registered in Google Webmaster Tools includes:

  • Sitemap URL:
    The sitemap URL registered for the original domain.
  • Type:
    The type of registered sitemap format will be shown to you. The situations you may face are:
    1. Sitemap : XML or TEXT formats
    2. Sitemap index : The divided sections of a high-volume
    3. RSS : RSS format
    4. Atom : Atom format
    5. Unknown : The registered sitemap format is not one of the formats specified by Google. Maybe the sitemap has not been processed yet.
  • submitted:
    Information about the last time the file was registered in Google will be provided to you.
  • Last read:
    The status of registration and crawling of the sitemap file will be reported to you.
  • Status:
    In this section, the status of registration or crawling of the links in the sitemap is stated. The situation may be as follows:
    Success : The site map has been processed and registered without any problems.
    Has error : The sitemap is readable but has one or more errors. In this section, you can see the list of errors.
    Couldn’t fetch : The file you are looking for cannot be fetched. If you want to know the reason, you can use the Live test URL Inspection tool of Google Search Console to test the relevant URL.

    If you want to learn more, you can read the article on Google Search Console ‘s URL inspection tool.

  • Discover URL: 
    The number of URLs listed in the sitemap is also shown.

Registering a sitemap in Google Webmaster is one of the best ways to show your website structure to Google. In addition, you can effectively use the information and statistics provided by this program. In this article, we have tried to familiarize you with this method and provide you with the information you may need in this regard

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