If you’ve just launched your beautiful new Showit website – first of all, congrats! 🎉 But now it’s time to make sure people can actually find it. One of the most important steps in that process? Submitting your sitemap to Google Search Console. Let’s walk through it together, step by step.

Why Submitting Your Showit Sitemap Matters

Your sitemap is like a roadmap of your website and Google uses it to understand how your content is organized. Without it, your site might still show up in search results eventually, but it’ll take longer and could miss key pages. It’s also helpful if you’ve transferred from a Squarespace (or other platform) site to Showit, and have old pages you don’t want to appear.

Submitting your Showit sitemap is a quick way to say, “Hey Google! Here’s what I want you to crawl.”

Step 1: Locate Your Showit Sitemap

Showit automatically creates a sitemap for you (yay for not needing to code!). Here’s how to find it:

1. Go to your published Showit website (e.g., yourdomain.com)
2. Add /siteinfo.xml to the end of the URL
   • You’ll find your sitemap by going to: yourdomain.com/siteinfo.xml

This is the link you’ll submit to Google Search Console.

Step 2: Set Up Google Search Console (if you haven’t already)

If you don’t have a Google Search Console account yet, it’s free and easy to set up:

1. Head to https://search.google.com/search-console
2. Click “Start now” and log in with your Google account
3. Choose the Domain option for a more complete setup
4. Follow the instructions to verify your domain (this usually involves adding a small snippet to your domain provider—like GoDaddy, Google Domains, or Squarespace)

Pro tip: If you’re already using Google Analytics, you can often verify your site in one click.

Step 3: Submit Your Showit Sitemap to Google

Once your domain is verified:

1. In your Search Console dashboard, select your website property
2. On the left-hand menu, click “Sitemaps”
3. Under “Add a new sitemap”, paste only this part: sitemap.xml
4. Click Submit

You’re done! 🎉 Google will now start crawling your site more efficiently.

Additional Steps:

If you would like to set up a sitemap for your blog posts, you will need to submit a second URL.

A blog that is frequently updated can benefit from a sitemap so that each post can be indexed easily by the search engines. I personally use Yoast SEO which generates a blog sitemap automatically!

Your Blog Sitemap by Yoast plugin

You’ll find your Yoast sitemap for your blog by going to:

http://yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml (example)

(Note: Replace “yourdomain” with your domain.)

What Happens Next?

Once submitted, Google will periodically check your sitemap for updates. If you make big changes to your website (like launching new pages or reworking your structure) you don’t need to resubmit your sitemap unless you want to speed things up.

You can check back in Search Console to see if any errors pop up or how many pages have been indexed.

Final Thoughts (From a Designer Who’s Been There)

As a designer who works with Showit daily, I know how tempting it is to skip over the “techy” steps – but trust me, this one is worth it. Submitting your sitemap is one of the easiest (and most powerful) things you can do to boost your visibility online.

Want a website that’s not only beautiful but built with strategy and SEO in mind? That’s what I do here at Salt & Spruce Creative. Whether you’re launching a brand from scratch or giving your site a much-needed glow-up, I’m here to help you shine.

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