Squarespace Sitemap: Where to Find It and How to Submit It
Where is my Squarespace sitemap? At https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml, using your primary domain. Squarespace builds it for you and updates it when you add or remove content, usually within an hour and always within 24 hours. You can’t edit it by hand; you change what’s in it through page settings.
If your site still uses its built-in domain, the address is https://yoursite.squarespace.com/sitemap.xml. On September 25, 2026 we fetched squarespace.com/sitemap.xml itself: it returned a normal XML sitemap, and the site’s robots.txt pointed to it with a Sitemap: line, so crawlers can find it on their own.
What the Sitemap Includes and Leaves Out
According to Squarespace’s help center, the sitemap lists:
- The URLs of all pages on your site, including pages placed in dropdown menus.
- Image information for those pages.
It leaves out:
- Pages you have hidden from search engines.
- Disabled pages.
- Password-protected pages.
- Content inside code blocks and embed blocks, and the URLs of files you uploaded.
That last point matters if you built part of a page with a code block: search engines can still read the page, but the sitemap won’t list anything that exists only inside the block.
How to Keep a Page Out of Google (and Out of the Sitemap)
Hide it from search. Open the page’s settings, go to the SEO tab, and turn on the option to hide the page from search results. Squarespace then adds a noindex tag and drops the page from the sitemap. Blog posts and other collection items have the same option in their own settings.
Disable it if nobody should reach it at all. Disabled pages are removed from the sitemap too.
Don’t rely on the Not Linked section. Moving a page to Not Linked only removes it from your navigation. The page is still live at its URL, so if you don’t want it in Google, hide it from search or disable it as well.
How to Submit Your Squarespace Sitemap to Google
- Connect Search Console. In Squarespace, open the Analytics panel, go to Search keywords, click Connect and sign in with your Google account. This verifies your site’s primary domain.
- Submit the sitemap. Connecting does not submit the sitemap for you. In Google Search Console, open Sitemaps, type
sitemap.xmland click Submit. - Check the status. Within a few days the Sitemaps report should show "Success" and a count of discovered URLs. If it shows an error, see why a sitemap stops working.
If you later change your primary domain, reconnect Search Console and submit the sitemap again under the new domain.
Submitting to Bing
Bing powers its own results and feeds several AI assistants, so it is worth two minutes. In Bing Webmaster Tools you can import your site from Google Search Console, or add it by hand and submit https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml under Sitemaps. Squarespace’s help center has a separate guide to verifying your site with Bing.
Common Squarespace Sitemap Problems
A page is missing from the sitemap
Check whether the page is hidden from search, disabled or password-protected; all three are left out on purpose. If you only just published it, wait: Squarespace can take up to 24 hours to update the sitemap.
The whole site is behind a password
A site-wide password, set under site availability, keeps Google out of every page. Remove it before you launch and submit your sitemap. Page-level passwords only affect the pages that use them.
Old URLs return 404 after you changed a slug
Squarespace does not redirect an old URL when you change a page’s slug; visitors and Googlebot get a 404 instead. Add a 301 redirect from the old path to the new one with Squarespace’s URL mappings feature, then use URL Inspection in Search Console on the new URL. For which redirect type to use, see 301 vs 302 redirects.
Two versions of your site in Google
If both yoursite.squarespace.com and your custom domain appear in results, set your custom domain as the primary domain. Search Console verifies the primary domain, so that is the version you want Google to treat as the real one.
Your site never shows up in AI answers
Squarespace has a setting that asks AI models to exclude your site. It is useful if you don’t want your content used by AI tools, but it also works against you if AI assistants such as ChatGPT are a source of visitors you want. Check how it is set before you worry about anything else.
How to Check Your Sitemap
Open https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml in a browser; you should see a list of <url> entries. For a quick outside check, the free sitemap finder reads your robots.txt, finds the sitemap, and tests 30 of its URLs for 404s, redirects, noindex tags and canonical problems.