: Sitemap specified in robots.txt not found by Google I would like Google to find my sitemap.xml via robots.txt, rather than having to manually upload it. My robots.txt looks like this: User-agent:

@Megan663

The only way to remove this message, as well as add your sitemap to Google - is to submit your sitemap. In Google Webmaster Tools click Crawl -> Sitemaps -> ADD/TEST SITEMAP.

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@Martha676

As explained in this Google reference, the sitemaps listed in the robots.txt are not displayed in the Google Webmaster Tools.


Was your Sitemap submitted using ping or robots.txt? Only Sitemaps submitted using Webmaster Tools are listed on the Sitemaps page. To make sure your Sitemap information is visible, it's a good idea to use Webmaster Tools to submit your Sitemap for the first time, and then use ping or robots.txt to update it.


But this doesn't mean that Google is not taking them into consideration.

In fact, it's likely that if you add the sitemap directly in your GWT account in a few hours it will show that most of the URLs listed in the sitemaps are correctly indexed.

The only way to show them in your control panel is to add them manually.

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