--- title: "Submit Your Sitemap to Search Engines" label: "Sitemap submission" description: "Submit your auto-generated sitemap to help Google and Bing discover public board URLs." publishedAt: 2026-02-10 updatedAt: 2026-10-20 order: 8 status: "published" faqs: - question: Does Cavuno generate a sitemap automatically? answer: "Yes. Cavuno generates and updates your sitemap automatically. It includes all published job listings, company pages, programmatic SEO pages, blog posts, and legal pages. No configuration is needed." - question: How often does the sitemap update? answer: "The sitemap refreshes as public content changes. Search engines read it on their own schedules, so a changed sitemap does not create a fixed crawl or indexing timeline." - question: Do I need to resubmit my sitemap after adding new jobs? answer: "No. Once submitted, search engines re-crawl your sitemap on their own schedule. Google Search Console shows the last time it was read and how many URLs were discovered." - question: My sitemap shows thousands of URLs. Is that normal? answer: "Cavuno can generate category and location combinations from your job content, so a large board may expose many URLs. A sitemap URL is discoverable, not guaranteed to be indexed or ranked. Review whether the underlying pages are useful and current." --- 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](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap). ## 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: ``` 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. If your AI website builder site offers [secondary languages](/docs/board-setup/board-language#secondary-languages), check the published sitemap and open a page in each language. ## Submit to Google Search Console If you [connect Search Console to Cavuno](/docs/analytics/connect-search-console), your sitemap is submitted automatically during setup. No manual steps needed. To submit manually instead: 1. Go to [Google Search Console](https://search.google.com/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](https://www.bing.com/webmasters) 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. It also asks search engines to skip extra results pages, such as `/jobs?page=2`, so they spend their time on your jobs instead. On a board whose page addresses follow its [board language](/docs/board-setup/board-language#page-addresses), these rules use the translated addresses, such as `/vacatures?page=`. ## 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](/docs/job-board-seo/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](/docs/job-board-seo/indexing-api) and [IndexNow](/docs/job-board-seo/indexnow); neither replaces the sitemap or guarantees indexing.