Have you ever wondered why you only have a few visitors on your website or blog? If your page is not indexed it cannot be served on Google. Before my pages were only viewed 3 to 4 times daily but when Google started indexing my pages, tons of visitors are flying to my page.
A page is indexed by Google if it has been visited by the Google crawler ("Googlebot"), analyzed for content and meaning, and stored in the Google index. Indexed pages can be shown in Google Search results which will result in more visitors to your site.
To submit your sitemap to Google, visit Google Search Console and click Sitemaps. Enter your Sitemaps and click Submit. Google will then analyze the type of sitemap and discovered pages and discovered videos. One of the Google crawling engines crawls (requests) the page. The terms "crawl" and "index" are often used interchangeably, although they are different (but closely related) actions.
Watch our tutorial on How to Submit Sitemap to Google for Crawling and Indexing.