Submit your sitemap to Google Search Console

FastPaste ships a dynamic sitemap at https://fastpaste.dev/sitemap.xml. It lists the homepage, tools, guides, pricing, docs, and compare pages — not one-time code URLs (those are noindex by design).

1. Add your property

Open Google Search Console.
Click Add property → choose URL prefix and enter https://fastpaste.dev (include https://).
On verification, choose HTML tag. Copy the content value from the meta tag (the long string inside content="...").
Add it to your production environment as GOOGLE_SITE_VERIFICATION, redeploy, then click Verify in Search Console. FastPaste emits <meta name="google-site-verification" …> from the root layout when that variable is set.

Alternative: add a DNS TXT record at your domain registrar (works without redeploy). Use whichever method your host makes easiest.

2. Submit the sitemap

In Search Console, open Sitemaps in the left sidebar.
Enter sitemap.xml (or the full URL https://fastpaste.dev/sitemap.xml) and click Submit.
Status should move to “Success” within a few hours. Recrawl is not instant — expect days for new pages.

3. Confirm robots.txt

/robots.txt points crawlers at the sitemap and blocks /api/. Check: https://fastpaste.dev/robots.txt

4. Self-hosted installs

Set NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL to your public origin before building. The sitemap and canonical URLs use this value — wrong env vars produce wrong links in Search Console.

What gets indexed

Home, tools (/redact, /agent, /json, …), guides, pricing, docs, compare
Not indexed: /api/*, one-time code redirect pages (/diff/482193, etc.)