How do I submit to Google Webmaster Tools? [#375222]

hi, what do I do with the following link:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=[sitemap]

I registered to webmaster tools.
under "sitemap" i click "add"

but I am not sure how to continue from here.
any help would be appreciated
thanks

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Comment #1

apaderno

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Italian

Brescia, 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

CreditAttribution: apaderno commented 16 February 2009 at 23:12

Title:	how do i submit to google?	» How do I submit to Google Webmaster Tools?
Status:	Active	» Fixed
Issue tags:		+Google Webmaster Tools

Simply report the address of the site map of your website that is http://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml, if you activated the clean URLs, or http://yoursite.com/index.php?sitemap.xml differently.

The http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=[sitemap] URL is not the address of your site map, but it's the address to which the site map is submitted.

Comment #2

drmori CreditAttribution: drmori commented 18 February 2009 at 07:46

thank you for your reply, I am still not clear on a couple of things

where do I report the address of the site map of my website?
is it by logging on to the webmasters tools , clicking "add" under my website , and then type "sitemap.xml" next to "My Sitemaps" ?

also, the file sitemap.xml does not exist on my drupal root (which is under root\MyDrupalWebsite) , should I still type the file name sitemap.xml on google webmaster tools?

thanks for the support, I am fairly new at this

p.s.
just wanted to add I have clean URLs enabled. I am hosted with godaddy, so I edited the .htaccess file in order to get it working, and it seems to be working properly.

Comment #3

drmori CreditAttribution: drmori commented 18 February 2009 at 07:52

and also just a followup as I wasn't completely clear on that:
should I change the address under submission URL which says: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=[sitemap]

thanks for the patience and attention

Comment #4

apaderno

he/him

Italian

Brescia, 🇮🇹 🇪🇺

CreditAttribution: apaderno commented 18 February 2009 at 15:56

Status:

Fixed

» Active

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For the first question see the attached screenshot. The URL to report must be complete, and not just be sitemap.xml.

There isn't a file named sitemap.xml, and you will never find it; xmlsitemap.module doesn't use such file for its output. Still, the site map URL is http://example.com/sitemap.xml, if you are not using more than one language in your site.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=[sitemap] should be just changed if Google uses a URL that is different from http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping, for the submission of site maps; in the other cases, the URL should not be changed.