diff --git a/ci/cloudbuild/builds/publish-docs.sh b/ci/cloudbuild/builds/publish-docs.sh
index 5f40ea6504bdb..ff068c1223379 100755
--- a/ci/cloudbuild/builds/publish-docs.sh
+++ b/ci/cloudbuild/builds/publish-docs.sh
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ function stage_docfx() {
   local path="${binary_dir}/google/cloud/${feature}/docfx"
   if [[ "${feature}" == "common" ]]; then
     path="${binary_dir}/google/cloud/docfx"
+  elif [[ "${feature}" == "guides" ]]; then
+    path="${binary_dir}/product-neutral-guides/docfx"
   fi
 
   echo "path=${path}" >"${log}"
@@ -119,6 +121,7 @@ io::log "bucket:  gs://${docfx_bucket}"
 # have documentation, such as `experimental-storage_grpc`. These are harmless,
 # as the `stage_docfx()` function skips missing directories without an error.
 uploaded=(common)
+uploaded+=(guides)
 uploaded+=("${FEATURE_LIST[@]}")
 echo "${uploaded[@]}" | xargs -P "$(nproc)" -n 1 \
   bash -c "stage_docfx \"\${0}\" \"${docfx_bucket}\" cmake-out \"cmake-out/\${0}.docfx.log\""
diff --git a/docfx/product-neutral-guides/CMakeLists.txt b/docfx/product-neutral-guides/CMakeLists.txt
index 56f54c315b8d0..5b0d62f66cff7 100644
--- a/docfx/product-neutral-guides/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/docfx/product-neutral-guides/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ set(TOC_ITEMS ${toc_items})
 set(toc_file "${output_dir}/toc.yml")
 configure_file("${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/toc.yml.in" "${toc_file}" @ONLY)
 
+set(metadata_file "${output_dir}/docs.metadata.json")
+configure_file("${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/docs.metadata.json.in"
+               "${metadata_file}" @ONLY)
+list(APPEND copied_files "${metadata_file}")
+
 add_custom_target(product-neutral-guides-docs DEPENDS ${copied_files})
 
 add_dependencies(all-docfx product-neutral-guides-docs)
diff --git a/docfx/product-neutral-guides/docs.metadata.json.in b/docfx/product-neutral-guides/docs.metadata.json.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e11f570d884ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docfx/product-neutral-guides/docs.metadata.json.in
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "language": "cpp",
+    "name": "product-neutral-guides",
+    "version": "@PROJECT_VERSION@"
+}