Submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.
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/sitemap
into 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.