The first time you submit a Sitemap to Google, you must submit it by adding it to your Google Webmaster Tools account. This enables Google to provide you with useful status and statistical information. From your account, you can see if there are problems with your Sitemap or with any of the URLs listed in it. If you are adding a Mobile Sitemap, you must specify the markup language for the URLs contained in the Sitemap. These steps describe how to add a Sitemap that contains URLs for non-mobile content (this includes most web sites). There are additional steps for Mobile Sitemaps. Once you have a Sitemap in one of the supported formats: 1. Upload your Sitemap to your site in the highest level directory you want search engines to crawl, generally the root. If you list URLs in your Sitemap that are at a higher level than your Sitemap location, Google will be unable to include those URLs as part of the Sitemap submission. 2. Make sure you have added your site to your Webmaster Tools account. 3. On the Dashboard, click Add next to the site for which you want to add a Sitemap. Type the URL to your Sitemap location in the provided field. 4. Click Submit Sitemap. When you initially add a Sitemap, the status displays as Pending. Once Google processes your Sitemap (which may take several hours), this status will change to either OK or to an error. We cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or added to our index. Over time, we expect both coverage and time-to-index to improve as we refine our processes and better understand webmasters' needs. When you make changes to your Sitemap, you can resubmit it using your Google Webmaster Tools account or you can resubmit it using an HTTP request. Note: You can also tell Google and other search engines about your Sitemap by including the location of the Sitemap in your robots.txt file. We still recommend that you submit your Sitemap through your Webmaster Tools account so you can make sure that the Sitemap was processed without any issues, and to get additional statistics about your site.