SEO & growth · Search visibility
Your sitemap and robots file, explained
Every site gets an automatically generated sitemap and robots file on its own domain — no setup, no maintenance. Here's what's in them, what's kept out, and how to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console.
What's in your sitemap
Your sitemap lives at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml and is rebuilt on the fly, so it always reflects your current content. It lists your homepage, pricing page, and library, plus every class page, published collection, course, instructor profile, publicly visible bundle, and published blog post.
If you've turned on public transcript pages, those are included too — with extra video details (title, thumbnail, description) that make your classes eligible for Google's video search results.
What the robots file does
The robots file at yourdomain.com/robots.txt tells search engine crawlers which parts of your site to visit. Yours allows all public pages and blocks the areas that should never appear in search: your admin, member account and profile pages, sign-in flows, and technical routes. It also points crawlers straight at your sitemap.
Both files are generated per site on your own domain — there's nothing to configure and nothing to keep up to date.
Tell Google about it
Search engines will find your sitemap on their own eventually, but submitting it to Google Search Console speeds things up dramatically and gives you a free dashboard of which pages are indexed and what searches you show up for.
Step by step
- Connect your own domain first (under Settings → Domain & email) so all indexed links carry your brand.
- Go to Google Search Console (search.google.com/search-console) and add your domain as a property.
- Verify ownership using the DNS method at your domain provider.
- Under "Sitemaps", submit: yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml.
- Check back after a few days to see indexing progress.
Good to know
- Publishing new classes, courses, or blog posts automatically grows your sitemap — no action needed.
- Search Console's "Performance" report shows which real search phrases bring people in; use it to decide what content to make next.
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Turn class transcripts into public SEO pages
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