1 TIME GOOGLE SUBMISSION
The indexing of your content by Google is determined by system algorithms that take into account user demand and quality checks. You can influence the Google indexing process by how you manage the discovery of your content, which relies on the URL of the page. Without your pages’ URLs, our systems cannot crawl, index, and ultimately present your information in Search. This document introduces the notion of getting into the Google index by helping you decide how to manage discovery of your content by Google, which is the first step in the indexing process.
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Take a passive approach
If you create a website without providing a sitemap, our systems attempt to find and index the content on your site unless you specifically block your content from crawlers.
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Actively manage your URLs
By providing our systems a direct list of URLs to your content, known as a sitemap, our ability to find your pages no longer relies solely on your page’s relationship to other referring pages on the wider web.
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Submit new and updated URLs to Google
While you can merely host your sitemap on your site for our systems to discover, you can also provide notification about new URLs or existing URLs that have changed content.
