Submit Your Sitemap to Search Engines

Cavuno auto-generates a sitemap for public board content. Submitting it helps search engines discover canonical URLs, but does not guarantee crawling, indexing, or ranking. See Google's sitemap guidance.

Before you begin

Your board must be publicly reachable, and you need access to the corresponding Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools property. Open https://yourboard.com/sitemap.xml in a signed-out browser first and confirm it loads without authentication or a server error.

What Cavuno generates

Your sitemap is available at:

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https://yourboard.com/sitemap.xml

It includes:

• Job listings: every published job with its company, category, and location
• Programmatic SEO pages: category pages, location pages, and category+location combinations
• Company pages: individual company profiles and market pages
• Salary pages: company salary data and category salary breakdowns (when data is available)
• Blog content: posts, tag pages, and author pages
• Legal pages: privacy policy, terms of service, cookie policy (when configured)

The sitemap updates automatically as content changes. Large boards may have a sitemap index that splits URLs across multiple files. Search engines handle this automatically.

Submit to Google Search Console

If you connect Search Console to Cavuno, your sitemap is submitted automatically during setup. No manual steps needed.

To submit manually instead:

1. Go to Google Search Console
2. Select your property (or add your domain if you haven't already)
3. In the left sidebar, click Sitemaps
4. Enter your sitemap URL: https://yourboard.com/sitemap.xml
5. Click Submit

Google confirms whether it could receive and process the sitemap. Processing and crawling time varies; use the Sitemaps report to see the last read date, discovered URLs, and parsing errors.

Submit to Bing Webmaster Tools

1. Go to Bing Webmaster Tools
2. Add your site or select it if already added
3. In the left sidebar, click Sitemaps
4. Click Submit sitemap
5. Enter your sitemap URL and click Submit

This submits the sitemap to Bing. Other search products maintain their own source mixes and indexing decisions, so do not treat a Bing submission as confirmed coverage elsewhere.

Verify indexing

After submission, monitor progress:

• Google Search Console > Sitemaps: shows "Success" status, the number of discovered URLs, and the last read date
• Google Search Console > Indexing → Pages: shows indexed and not-indexed groups with Google's reported reasons
• Bing Webmaster Tools > Sitemaps: shows submitted URLs and indexed count

A gap between discovered and indexed URLs is normal. Search engines index pages based on quality signals and crawl budget, so not every page is indexed immediately.

robots.txt

Cavuno also generates a robots.txt file at https://yourboard.com/robots.txt that points search engines to your sitemap. No configuration is needed.

Tips

• Submit a public, stable sitemap URL. Search engines must be able to fetch the sitemap and the URLs it contains.
• Don't resubmit after every change. Search engines re-read a stable sitemap URL on their own schedules. Submit again if the sitemap URL changes or the tool reports an error that you have corrected.
• Use Search Console to diagnose issues. The Page indexing report groups not-indexed URLs by Google's reported reason. Inspect representative URLs before changing the site.

Next steps

After the first successful read, use How job board SEO works to choose the search and conversion measures you will monitor. For faster notifications about eligible job URL changes, review the Google Indexing API and IndexNow; neither replaces the sitemap or guarantees indexing.