How Do I Go About Manually Adding an XML Sitemap to My Website? or What’s the Best Way to Handle Manu

If you’re manually adding an xml sitemap, don’t forget to validate it first! A broken sitemap is worse than none.

Use XML-sitemaps.com’s validator to check for errors.

And yeah, pinging Google isn’t *required*, but it speeds things up. Just a quick visit to their ping URL does the trick.