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title: "Submit your sitemap in Search Console"
description: "A sitemap is a hint, not a guarantee, but submitting it in Search Console shortens discovery for new URLs and reports parse errors. Submit under the property that owns the URLs, keep entries canonical and indexable, and resubmit only when the file or its lastmod values actually change."
url: "https://seo-mcp.io/t/submit-your-sitemap-in-search-console"
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# Submit your sitemap in Search Console

A sitemap is a hint, not a guarantee, but submitting it in Search Console shortens discovery for new URLs and reports parse errors. Submit under the property that owns the URLs, keep entries canonical and indexable, and resubmit only when the file or its lastmod values actually change.

## Prerequisites

- A generated XML sitemap
- Verified Search Console property

## Steps

1. **Open the Sitemaps report** — In Search Console choose Indexing, then Sitemaps. Confirm the property scope matches the host in the sitemap URLs.
   Check: The report accepts a URL on the same host as the property and shows a status row for it.
2. **Submit the sitemap index** — Enter the full HTTPS URL of the sitemap or sitemap index and submit. Prefer the index when you split by content type or locale.
   Check: The Sitemaps report lists the submitted URL with status Success.
3. **Read discovered URLs and errors** — Compare discovered URLs against the indexable set. Investigate warnings for redirects, 404s or blocked URLs and remove those entries at the source.
   Check: Discovered URL count is within 5% of the indexable page count and the error count is zero.

## Source

@seo-mcp on 2026-10-19: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap

Canonical: https://seo-mcp.io/t/submit-your-sitemap-in-search-console