How to Submit Blogger site Map to Google Webmaster

 

For a Blogger Submitting your Site Map is very Important, which most Bloggers Ignores or just forgets.Submitting site map to search Engine is actually very easy. Submitting site maps is to inform the search engines to crawl and to index all your blog pages,so that it can discover every pages from links within the site, and the pages gets displayed in searches, that’s why its important to submit your site map.
So What is SITE MAP?
For a Blogger or Web master there are many SEO tips and tricks to optimize a site, for better visibility to search engines, but among those the importance of SITE MAP is sometimes underestimated.Site Map as the name implies, is just a map of your site, that basically shows the structure of your site on a single page, which includes, its sections,the links between them etc. Sitemaps are an important way of communications between your site and search engines for indexing all your Blog contents. This is the shortest and precise way of defining the importance of Site Mapsubmission to search engine .I hope you got the basic idea and importance of Site Map submission.

How do You submit Your site Map to Google Webmaster tools.
1. First Find out how many posts you have already published. This you probably already know or if you are not sure , Log on to your Blogger account and  go to settings –Posts- There you will see the number of posts already published shown at the top of the lists of published Posts. According to the number of posts you have published, you will need to insert/type the following in the Googles webmaster tools.

For Less Than 500 blog post
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
For Less than 1000 blog post
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
Less than 1500 blog post
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

2. Now that you know the number of Blog post Published, Lets proceed to the next step to add this site map to Googles webmaster tools.
Follow these steps.

  • Log on to Google Webmaster tools. If you have a google account you can log with that too.
  • In this page it will display the List of Blogs you have,choose the one for which you want to submit site map, as shown below.
  • How to Submit Blogger site Map to Google Webmaster
  • Click on the Blog URL you choose, and you will get the following window
    How to Submit Blogger site Map to Google Webmaster Here Click on the “ADD/TEST SITEMAP button on the top right corner of the window. You will get this .How to Submit Blogger site Map to Google Webmaster
  • Here in the box next to your blogs URL(in this image its showing my blog URL) either type or copy paste the code as shown above, corresponding to the number of blog post published, than click on the “Submit Site Map”. Your site map will be updated and you may be asked to refresh(reload) the page. On reloading the page Google webmaster tool will display the number of posts submitted and number of posts already indexed. as shown below
    How to Submit Blogger site Map to Google Webmaster
  • That’s it you are done. Now you just have to wait for Google to crawl all your pages and index it.This may take a day or few days. You can log on to Google webmaster tool later again to check how many pages have been indexed.

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Ben Jamir

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