Verify & Submit Your Websites 360® Site to Google and Bing

Verify & Submit Your Websites 360® Site to Google and Bing

Submitting your sitemap to search engines like Google and Bing ensures that your website is listed in their search results. While search crawlers will eventually find your site, submitting your sitemap speeds up that process. Submitting to Bing also submits your site to Yahoo and DuckDuckGo.

Submitting your sitemap also gives you free access to powerful tools from Google and Bing to help you track your website's performance.


Google

Part 1: Set up Google Search Console

  2. Log in or create a Google account.

  3. Choose "URL prefix" as the property type. Copy and paste your website's full URL, including https://.
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  4. Scroll down and select HTML tag to expand the menu.
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  5. Copy the code inside the quotation marks, as demonstrated below.
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  6. In a new tab, open your Websites app. Go to the Settings tab and select SEO.

  7. Scroll down to the Site Verification section and paste the code into the Google site verification code field.

  8. Click Publish at the top of your dashboard.

  9. Return to Google Search Console and click Verify.


Part 2: Submit your sitemap to Google

  1. From your Google Search Console dashboard, select Indexing > Sitemaps.

  2. In the Add a new sitemap box, type sitemap.xml after your website's URL.
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  3. Select Submit.

Tip: If you make a big change to your website, you can resubmit your sitemap to prompt Google to re-crawl your site immediately.


Bing

Part 1: Verify your website with Bing

  1. Go to Bing Webmaster Tools. Click Get Started and log in.

  2. You have two options for verification:

    • Option 1: Import from Google Search Console: If you've already verified your site with Google, click Import and follow the on-screen prompts to connect your Google account. This is the fastest method.

    • Option 2: Submit manually:

      • On the welcome page, paste your website's URL under Add your site manually.

      • Choose the HTML Meta Tag verification method and copy the code.

      • Go to the Settings > SEO tab in your Websites app.

      • Under Site Verification, paste the code into the Bing site verification code field.

      • Click Publish.

      • Go back to Bing Webmaster Tools and click Verify.


Part 2: Submit your sitemap to Bing

  1. After a successful verification, you'll be directed to the dashboard.

  2. Select Sitemaps on the left-hand sidebar, then click Submit sitemap.

  3. In the box, type sitemap.xml after your website's URL.

  4. Select Submit.

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