How do I get my beehiiv newsletter on Google?

Where the beehiiv sitemap lives

beehiiv generates a sitemap for your web archive automatically.

Why beehiiv posts don't get indexed

• Only the web version of a post is indexable. Email-only sends never reach Google.
• Premium posts are indexed on their preview text alone.
• Newsletter titles are the biggest lever and the most neglected — "Issue 12" ranks for nothing.
• The default beehiiv subdomain works but builds beehiiv's authority instead of yours.
• Per-post SEO fields sit on paid tiers; on the free plan Google builds titles and descriptions itself.

Step by step: getting your beehiiv newsletter into Google

1. Connect a custom domain in beehiiv's settings and publish.
2. Verify the domain in Google Search Console.
3. Submit https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml under Sitemaps.
4. Fill in the per-post SEO title and description on your evergreen posts.
5. Make sure the posts you want found are public rather than premium-gated.
6. Push new post URLs through the Indexing API at publish time instead of waiting for a sitemap recrawl.

beehiiv indexing controls at a glance

• Sitemap — https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml — beehiiv generates a sitemap for your web archive automatically.
• robots.txt — Limited control. beehiiv manages robots.txt. Higher tiers give custom code injection but not per-crawler robots rules.
• Rendering — The web version of each post is server-rendered HTML that crawlers read in full.
• Hiding a page — Per-post SEO settings on paid tiers include indexing control; the web archive is otherwise public by default.
• Custom head code — Custom HTML/head injection is available on higher tiers, which is where JSON-LD goes.
• llms.txt — No root file hosting. Your archive page plus a clean sitemap is the practical substitute.