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April 3, 2009 12:07 PM

With a personal domain how do you submit a sitemap in webmaster tools for a google site?

It's probably staring me right in the face but I can't look at my monitor any longer!!!

I have a google site with a domain I've purchased from godaddy and for the life of me cannot figure out how to add the sitemap to google webmaster tools.

-My domain has been added to the site and it is accessible.
-I've enabled google analytics and have pasted the Google Webmaster Tools meta tag verification.
-I have created my webmaster account and when logged in it displays my godaddy domain.

The next step in webmaster tools should be to go to the sitemaps page and to submit the sitemap - What do I enter here?

All the "help" files for google sites say to enter: http://sites.google.com/site/(your site)/system/feeds/sitemap but that is not my domain. I've tried a few combinations but no luck.

With a personal domain how do you submit a sitemap for a public google site?

posted by doorsfan to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Do you mean you have a domain (ie example.com) pointing to sites.google.com/site/doorsfan ?
if that's the case does example.com/system/feeds/sitemap work?
posted by borkencode at 12:24 PM on April 3

First you need a sitemap. It's a special file typically named sitemap.xml, sitting at the root of your domain. (ie. http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml).

Then you enter that address. But you need a sitemap first, before you can submit it. There are tools which will make a static one, if you point them to your website, and also plugins for things like wordpress to keep them updated.
posted by cschneid at 12:26 PM on April 3

borkencode - Yes, and i tried that and got an error.

cschneid - since it is a google site, google actually creates it automatically; but that is where i'm stuck.
posted by doorsfan at 12:31 PM on April 3

Have you tried http://yourdomain.com/system/feeds/sitemap.xml ?
posted by odinsdream at 1:07 PM on April 3

See this page.

Hae you done the meta tag thing on this page:

http://sites.google.com/a/example.com/sitename/system/app/pages/admin/settings (See here)
posted by idb at 1:14 PM on April 3