Wix's Automatic Sitemap: What It Includes, and How to Submit It

Wix generates a sitemap index automatically at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml and keeps it current on its own, and finishing Wix's SEO Setup Checklist submits that sitemap to Google without any extra step from you. You can also submit it yourself, to Google or another search engine, if you'd rather not wait on the checklist. Here's exactly what the sitemap covers, what Wix documents about pages you don't want indexed, and what you can't change about the file itself, sourced from Wix's own help center, checked September 2026.

Does Wix generate a sitemap automatically?

Yes. Wix's help center describes it as "an XML file that contains a list of the URLs of the pages on your site," and states plainly: "Wix automatically updates your site's sitemap whenever you make changes to your site" (Wix, "Understanding Your Site's Sitemap File", checked September 2026). There's no setup step - every Wix site has one from the start. View it by adding sitemap.xml to the end of your domain in the browser's address bar; Wix's own example is https://mystunningwebsite.com/sitemap.xml.

What's technically at that address is a sitemap index - a list of your site's individual sitemaps, not one flat file - and the same article says it also carries relationship and update-time data: it "contains a list of the URLs of the pages on your site" along with "the relationships between pages and when each page was last updated." Wix documents that it includes image information specifically "for main pages, Wix Stores, Wix Events, Wix Blog, Online Programs, Wix Restaurants and Portfolio" - so a store's product images or a blog's featured images get sitemap-level image metadata the same way ordinary page URLs do.

What does Wix say about pages that shouldn't be indexed?

This is where you have to read two different Wix articles together, because they cover different mechanisms.

Password-protected and members-only pages: Wix's own troubleshooting guide is direct: "Search engines are not able to index pages that are password protected or pages that are accessible only to members of your site" (Wix, "Site or Pages Not Appearing in Search Engine Results", checked September 2026). These pages simply aren't crawled or indexed in the first place.

Pages with indexing turned off: For a page where you've manually switched off "Let search engines index this page," Wix's help center states: "Pages that search engines are prevented from indexing may not appear in your sitemap" (Wix, "Preventing Search Engines from Indexing Your Page", checked September 2026). Wix's own wording here is "may not," not a flat guarantee of exclusion - so don't treat a noindexed page's absence from the sitemap as something to verify by assumption. If keeping a specific page out of search results (not just the sitemap) is the actual goal, our Wix SEO settings guide covers exactly where that per-page toggle and the site-wide indexing setting live.

Neither of Wix's sitemap-specific articles states a blanket rule that every hidden or noindexed page is always left out of the sitemap - the documentation is split across these two mechanisms, and only the second one (indexing turned off) is described as affecting the sitemap file directly.

How do I submit the Wix sitemap to Google?

Two documented routes, and one of them is close to automatic. Wix's sitemap article (Wix Help Center, "Understanding Your Site's Sitemap File") states: "When you complete your SEO Setup Checklist, Wix automatically submits your sitemap index to Google for you." That checklist lives in the SEO & GEO area of your site's dashboard and walks through Wix's recommended starting steps in sequence - finishing it is what triggers the automatic submission.

If you'd rather submit directly, or want it in front of a search engine other than Google, Wix also documents a manual path: "If you want to submit your sitemap yourself, or submit it to other search engines, you can submit your sitemap directly" (same source). That's the route to use if you've already completed the checklist once before, changed your domain, or specifically want to submit to Bing or another engine that Google's own Search Console submission doesn't cover.

What can't I do with the Wix sitemap?

• You can't edit the sitemap file by hand. Wix's documentation describes it purely as an auto-generated, auto-updating file - there's no manual-edit workflow described anywhere in its sitemap article, unlike Wix's separate, documented robots.txt editor.
• You can't rely on hiding a page from your site menu to keep it out of search or the sitemap. That's a navigation setting, not an indexing one - a different toggle controls whether search engines can index the page at all.
• You shouldn't assume a noindexed page is instantly gone from the sitemap. Wix's own wording ("may not appear") is a documented uncertainty, not a firm guarantee.

A quick submission checklist

• Confirm your sitemap loads at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml and lists the pages you expect.
• Check any page you want excluded from search actually has its own "Let search engines index this page" toggle turned off - not just hidden from the site menu.
• Complete the SEO Setup Checklist in SEO & GEO if you want the automatic Google submission; otherwise submit the sitemap URL to Search Console directly.
• If you also want visibility on another search engine, use Wix's manual submission path rather than assuming the checklist covers it.

What if my site still isn't showing up in Google after this?

A submitted, correct sitemap is one input into indexing, not a guarantee of it. If pages still aren't appearing once the sitemap is confirmed and submitted, the more likely cause is a site-wide or per-page indexing setting rather than the sitemap file itself. Our guide to why builder sites don't show up on Google covers the exact Wix indexing toggle to check next, along with the Search Console tools that confirm what Google actually sees, instead of guessing from the sitemap alone.

Where does Figment fit in?

Nowhere directly - Figment publishes Figma designs as sites through its Figma plugin and isn't a CMS with its own sitemap-generation settings to compare against Wix's. This guide is about using Wix's own sitemap and submission tools while you're on the platform, not a reason to move off it. If Squarespace is the other platform on your list, our companion guide to Squarespace's automatic sitemap covers the same job there.

Bottom line: Wix's sitemap generation and updates are genuinely automatic, and finishing the SEO Setup Checklist gets it in front of Google without a separate submission step. What still needs your attention is which pages actually qualify to be indexed in the first place - password-protected and members-only pages are never indexed at all, and a page with indexing manually turned off "may not" appear in the sitemap, per Wix's own wording, rather than being guaranteed to disappear.