What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are text files containing a list of all web pages that exist on your website and are accessible to crawlers and users. These helps visitors and search engine bots to find pages on website. Sitemaps are a way to help Google indexing pages on your site which otherwise might not be discovered.
If your blog is hosted on blogspot.com (or if you are using a self-hosted version of Blogger with a custom domain) you will be surprised to find out that the default sitemap file contains only the 26 most recent pages of your blog which in normal case should contain all the URLs of a website.
Many webmaster pretend to teach others how to drive traffic to blogs or websites yet leaving out the most important factors like sitemaps. There are still other websites who keep on providing the old methods of generating a sitemap for blogger which are not any effective.
How to add a complete Sitemap for your Blogger Blog
Step 2. Once your blog is added to Google, go to Webmaster Dashboard and click on your site URL
Step 3. On the left side, look for Crawl, then Sitemaps and click on the Add/Test Sitemap button.
Add each of the following lines:
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
If your blog have lots of pages, add the sitemaps below:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2001&max-results=500And this is how you can submit your Blogger sitemap to Google. Happy blogging!
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2501&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=3001&max-results=500
thanks ,, now lets do it
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work.i will submit my sitemap in google in future
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing such useful infoticle.
I have got one question for you.
Do I have to add these lines to custom robots.txt as well?
Regards,
it will be good to use generated sitemap
ReplyDeleteafter add it.. still nothing show in google search result.. or maybe need to wait 24 hour or more?
ReplyDeleteHi admin, my blog posts are getting indexed in Google without any problem. But Bing is not doing the same job. Because not all my blog posts are indexed by Bing. What's the problem there? I even submitted sitemap to Bing but nothing works. I also checked your blog's posts there, every posts were indexed by Bing. How you did it? Please kindly let me know the solution. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this. These codes can also be used to submit the blogger site to bing.
ReplyDeleteHi. I've tried this but after the Webmaster's Sitemap Test result, it is showing me that 404 Not found. www.itechvalley.in/sitemap.xml
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteIf there is already one sitemap submitted when the total posts were less then 100, and now when they increases by 500, so do we need to remove the old one and submit the new one?
Thanks in advance