Duda

How do I get my Duda site on Google?

Publish to your custom domain, verify it in Google Search Console, and submit yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml — Duda builds and maintains that sitemap for you. The one Duda-specific trap is leaving the site on the .multiscreensite.com preview domain, which is what Google will otherwise see.

Sitemap location

https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Where the Duda sitemap lives

Duda generates and maintains the sitemap for every published site, including multilingual variants.

Why Duda pages don't get indexed

The .multiscreensite.com preview URL is not the site you want indexed. Connect and publish the custom domain first.
Unpublished changes don't reach the sitemap. Duda only updates it at publish, so hitting Publish is part of the SEO workflow.
Pages hidden from navigation are still published and indexable — hiding from the menu is not the same as hiding from Google.
Duda's page-level SEO panel controls both the noindex and sitemap inclusion. Turning a page "off" removes it from the sitemap entirely.
Multi-location and multilingual sites need hreflang configured, or Google collapses them into one result.

Step by step: getting your Duda site into Google

Connect the custom domain in site settings and publish.
Verify the domain in Google Search Console (DNS verification is cleanest for agency-managed sites).
Submit https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml under Sitemaps.
Open each page's SEO panel and confirm the indexing switch is on for pages you want found.
Write a unique title and description per page — Duda leaves them blank by default and Google will invent its own.
Push new pages through the Indexing API instead of waiting for Google to rediscover the sitemap.

Duda indexing controls at a glance

Sitemap — https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml — Duda generates and maintains the sitemap for every published site, including multilingual variants.
robots.txt — You can edit it. Duda exposes robots.txt in the site's SEO settings, so you can write AI-crawler rules.
Rendering — Duda serves rendered HTML with separate desktop and mobile output; crawlers get real text.
Hiding a page — Per page, in the page's SEO panel — there's a switch to keep a page out of search results and out of the sitemap.
Custom head code — Site-wide and per-page HTML injection into <head> is available in the site settings, which is where JSON-LD goes.
llms.txt — Duda doesn't serve arbitrary root files. Keep the sitemap accurate and publish a plain page listing your best URLs instead.

Connect your own Search Console, point IndexerNow at your sitemap, and push new and updated URLs straight to Google's Indexing API and IndexNow — on your account, your quota, no plugin.

Get your pages indexed

Frequently asked

Where is the Duda sitemap?

At yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml. Duda generates and updates it automatically on publish; pages switched off in the page SEO panel are excluded.

Why isn't my Duda site on Google?

In order of likelihood: the site is still on the .multiscreensite.com preview domain, the changes were never published, the page's indexing switch is off, or Google simply hasn't crawled it yet.

Does Duda submit my site to Google automatically?

No. Duda maintains the sitemap, but you still verify the property in Search Console and submit the sitemap once. After that, new pages benefit from being pushed directly rather than waiting for a recrawl.

Why isn't my Duda site showing up in AI answers?

Being in Google's index doesn't put you in ChatGPT's answers — those run on Bing plus their own crawlers, and they quote pages built to be quoted. The companion guide covers what Duda lets you control.

Duda AI visibility guide →