Google Search Console, previously Google Webmaster Tools, is a service that allows you to check indexing status and optimize visibility for sites.

To learn more, click here.
​

This is our current workflow for adding a sitemap to Google Search Console. It is a workaround until we can build out the sitemap upload/generating feature that is on our roadmap.

1. Generate a sitemap with a 3rd party like xml-sitemaps or xml sitemap generator. Keep in mind that these work by crawling your pages and internal links, so pages that are not linked to from other pages will not show up on the sitemap.
2. Upload that .xml file into the media library of the site the sitemap belongs to. Click on the "copy link" button in the media library to save the link to your clipboard.

4. Go to Window > Redirect Manager
5. In the "redirect from" dropdown, type in / and then a name for your XML file and press enter to apply the change. In this example, I chose /xml. Remember that page names cannot have ".", spaces, or capital letters.
6. In the "redirect to" field, paste in the link for the XML file you copied from the media library and press enter to submit the URL.
7. Once it's added, click on Add redirect

8. Login to your Google search console, click on sitemaps on the right-hand side and enter the page link for the page you created for the XML file in the "add new sitemap" field.

Since the page is getting redirected to your XML file, you can't get this link from your live site. You can figure out the link by adding the page slug (what you added in the redirect manager) of this page to the end of your site name. For example, if you named your XML page XML, you would enter https://yourdomain.com/xml/ or https://www.yourdomain.com/xml/ depending on what you have entered in the custom domain field in TIME Sites. Remember to include the / at the end of the URL.

9. Once you've typed in the url, press submit!