# Google Webmaster Can't read sitemap

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-webmaster-cant-read-sitemap/245405
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** sitemap
**Created:** [November 13, 2022, 11:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-webmaster-cant-read-sitemap/245405 "2022-11-13T11:00:04Z")
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### Author: ![dpacheco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dpacheco/32/277811_2.png) [@dpacheco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dpacheco)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-webmaster-cant-read-sitemap/245405/2 "2022-12-07T22:06:55Z")

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I’ve checked both sitemaps and they’re accessible and valid. For automatic validation, I used an [XML Sitemap Validator](https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html).

Small websites with fewer than 100 URLs, don’t need a sitemap. [Here’s an explanation](https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4803/the-sitemap-paradox/5151#5151).

**Discourse Sitemap Plugin**  
In case you haven’t used the [Discourse Sitemap Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-sitemap/40348), it adds a sitemap.xml to your Discourse instance.

**Submitting your sitemap to Google**  
As a quick reference, [here are the Google guidelines](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap#addsitemap) to build and submit a sitemap

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