Creating a sitemap helps search engines better crawl and categorize your site. You can easily create and verify a sitemap for any of your publicly viewable Google Sites through Google Webmaster Tools.
1. Verifying your site with Google Webmaster Tools
Before Google Sites will generate a sitemap, you must verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools:
- Sign in to Google Webmaster Tools
using the same account information you use to sign in to Google Sites. - Click "Add a site...", enter the base URL of your Google Site in the box that pops up, then click "Continue."
- On the following page, select the radio button next to Add a meta tag to your site's home page.
- Copy the meta tag (for example,
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="z5mJLjVGtEe5qzCefW1pamxI7H46u19n4XnxEzgl1AU" />) from the Instructions box. - In a new browser window or tab, navigate to the Google Site you wish to verify. (You will need to go back to the Webmaster Tools page, so do not close it.)
- Select Manage site from the "More actions" drop-down menu.
- Select the General tab under the Site Setting area.
- Paste the meta tag that you copied on the Google Webmasters Tools site in the box next to Google Webmaster Tools verification.
- Click "Save changes."
- Go back to the Webmaster Tools page where you copied the meta tag.
- Click "Verify."
2. Submitting your Google Site's sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools
- On your Webmaster Tools home page, select your site.
- In the left sidebar, click Site configuration and then Sitemaps.
- Click the Add/Test Sitemap button in the top right.
- Enter
/system/feeds/sitemapinto the text box that appears. - Click Submit Sitemap.
3. Locating your sitemap for later use
You can navigate to your sitemap by adding
/system/feeds/sitemap to the end of the base URL of your Google Site."from:https://support.google.com/sites/answer/100283?hl=en"Back to top
