You’ve designed a stunning Showit site. The visuals are flawless. The user experience? Chef’s kiss. But here’s the kicker… Google doesn’t care if your site isn’t showing up in your WordPress or showit sitemap.

Too many SEOs, website designers, small business owners are missing a critical piece: Showit pages aren’t automatically included in your WordPress sitemap, which means your beautifully crafted pages may be invisible to Google, and that means no rankings, no clicks, and no conversions.

This isn’t a glitch. It’s how Showit works. And it’s costing you visibility, traffic, and potentially revenue.

Why Your Showit Pages Aren’t Getting Indexed

Showit is a design-first platform that relies on WordPress for blogging, but when it comes to sitemaps, that separation creates a gap.

• WordPress SEO plugins (like Rank Math or Yoast) generate sitemaps only for WordPress-native pages/posts.
  
• Showit-built pages live outside that system unless you connect the dots manually.
  
• Even Showit’s default sitemap at /siteinfo.xml isn’t automatically submitted to Google unless you take that step.
  

Translation: Your homepage, services, and about pages? They aren’t going to be showing up unless you tell Google they exist.

Showit Sitemap example:

WordPress sitemap example:

The Quick Fix (That Most People Ignore)

Most people will tell you to create a showit sitemap you will need to create two versions of every page, one in Showit and one in WordPress, just to get them indexed. That’s time-consuming and unnecessary. Others will tell you to ignore this step and just submit both sitemaps to Google.

Here’s the smarter, cleaner solution to creating a Showit Sitemap:

• Create a WordPress page for each Showit-designed page.
• Match the URL slug exactly (e.g., /about/, /services/, /contact/)
• Leave the content blank or add a simple SEO snippet.
• Publish it. Let Rank Math or Yoast pick it up.

Now your Rank Math sitemap will include those pages, no duplicate content. No confusion, just fast indexing and real visibility.

Why is this important when it comes to your Showit Sitemap?

Most of the Showit SEO guides out there are keeping this big secret from you: You don’t want to have to hope and pray that the search engine crawlers index both of your sitemaps. Each and every time they come to crawl your website you want them to follow simple instructions. By having you pages be indexed by the main sitemap created by Yoast SEO or RankMath the search engine crawlers will pickup your pages and not have to look at two different entities. Bringing you better search rankings.

Optimize Without Overcomplicating

Now that your Showit pages are being indexed properly, boost your SEO performance with these best practices:

• Add canonical tags inside Showit (or via your SEO plugin like RankMath or YoastSEO)
• Set custom meta titles and descriptions using Showit’s SEO panel.
• Submit both sitemap_index.xml and siteinfo.xml to Google Search Console
• Add both sitemaps to your robots.txt for better crawlability

These small tweaks = long-term visibility gains.

For Designers & Business Owners: You Don’t Need to Hire an SEO Team

You don’t have to hire an SEO agency to get your Showit site indexed. You just need the right setup and a step-by-step plan.

This guide is built so you, the business owner or website designer, can confidently set your site up to succeed in search engines without tech overwhelm, expensive audits, or retainer fees.

But if you’re still feeling stuck or if you want an expert to optimize your Showit site for higher traffic and better rankings, We’re here to help.

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Related reading: How to submit your sitemap on Google

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