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The only place on your site where you might place a link (or URL reference) to your XML sitemap is in your robots.txt file. This will allow Google and all the other search engines you've not explicitly submitted a sitemap to, that support this extended robots.txt syntax, to find your XML sitemap:

Sitemap: http://example.com/Sitemap.xml

###Absolute or relative URL?

As mentioned in comments, the specification defines it as an absolute URL, however, the StackExchange network use a root-relative URL:

#
# this technically isn't valid, since for some godforsaken reason 
# sitemap paths must be ABSOLUTE and not relative. 
#
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

The only place on your site where you might place a link (or URL reference) to your XML sitemap is in your robots.txt file. This will allow Google and all the other search engines you've not explicitly submitted a sitemap to, that support this extended robots.txt syntax, to find your XML sitemap:

Sitemap: http://example.com/Sitemap.xml

###Absolute or relative URL?

As mentioned in comments, the specification defines it as an absolute URL, however, the StackExchange network use a root-relative URL:

#
# this technically isn't valid, since for some godforsaken reason 
# sitemap paths must be ABSOLUTE and not relative. 
#
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

The only place on your site where you might place a link (or URL reference) to your XML sitemap is in your robots.txt file. This will allow Google and all the other search engines you've not explicitly submitted a sitemap to, that support this extended robots.txt syntax, to find your XML sitemap:

Sitemap: http://example.com/Sitemap.xml

###Absolute or relative URL?

As mentioned in comments, the specification defines it as an absolute URL, however, the StackExchange network use a root-relative URL:

#
# this technically isn't valid, since for some godforsaken reason 
# sitemap paths must be ABSOLUTE and not relative. 
#
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

The only place on your site where you might place a link (or URL reference) to your XML sitemap is in your robots.txt file. This will allow Google and all the other search engines you've not explicitly submitted a sitemap to, that support this extended robots.txt syntax, to find your XML sitemap:

Sitemap: http://example.com/Sitemap.xml

###Absolute or relative URL?

As mentioned in comments, the specification defines it as an absolute URL, however, the StackExchange network use a root-relative URL:

#
# this technically isn't valid, since for some godforsaken reason 
# sitemap paths must be ABSOLUTE and not relative. 
#
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

The only place on your site where you might place a link (or URL reference) to your XML sitemap is in your robots.txt file. This will allow Google and all the other search engines you've not explicitly submitted a sitemap to, that support this extended robots.txt syntax, to find your XML sitemap:

Sitemap: http://example.com/Sitemap.xml

The only place on your site where you might place a link (or URL reference) to your XML sitemap is in your robots.txt file. This will allow Google and all the other search engines you've not explicitly submitted a sitemap to, that support this extended robots.txt syntax, to find your XML sitemap:

Sitemap: http://example.com/Sitemap.xml

###Absolute or relative URL?

As mentioned in comments, the specification defines it as an absolute URL, however, the StackExchange network use a root-relative URL:

#
# this technically isn't valid, since for some godforsaken reason 
# sitemap paths must be ABSOLUTE and not relative. 
#
Sitemap: /sitemap.xml