What Submit Sitemap looks like

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A sitemap tells the crawler which files you think are important on your site. It also provides valuable information about these files. For example, for pages: when it was last updated, how often it has changed, and any alternative language versions.

Google supports a number of sitemap formats, but XML is the most commonly used. You'll typically find your website's sitemap

If you are using WordPress and one of the plugins mentioned above, you will find that generating a sitemap is a standard feature.

If not, you can create an XML sitemap using one of the many korea database sitemap generator tools available. In fact, we recently updated our  ultimate guide to sitemaps , which includes our top recommendations.

Once you've generated your sitemap, make sure it's uploaded to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.


Make sure to reference your sitemap in your robots.txt file.

5. Create a robots.txt file
Simply put, your website's robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers  which pages and files they can and cannot request from your site.

This is typically used to prevent certain sections of your site from being crawled and is not a way to deindex a page and stop it from being displayed in Google.

You can find your site's robots.txt file

Check if you already have one.

If not, you need to create one, even if you don't currently need one, to prevent any page on your website from being crawled.

Some Wordpress SEO plugins allow users to create and edit their robots.txt file, but if you are using a different CMS, you need to manually create the file using a text editor and upload it to the root of your domain.

You can learn more about  how to use robots.txt files  in this beginner's guide.

6. Check Search Console for manual actions
On rare occasions, you may find that your site has been subject to a manual action that has negatively affected it.

Manual actions  are typically caused by violating or manipulating Google's webmaster guidelines . This includes things like: user-generated spam, structured data issues, unnatural links, poor content, hidden text, and even what is considered outright spam.