Sitemap is nothing but a list of all the pages in your blog. Here pages means your post pages, static pages and your homepage. If you want to read more about Google Webmaster Tools then read out previous post “ How to add your Blog to Google Webmaster “ . Now lets come back to the sitemap. If you submit site to Google Webmaster Tools then it means that you are sending a request to Google bots to access you pages and submit your pages to Search Engine. You can control which pages you want them to index by adding a custom robots.txt file in your blogger blog. We will later discuss how you can add a custom robots.txt file to blogger. First we will see how can we add our sitemap to Google. Once again, if you don’t have a Google Webmaster Account then go Here.
Benefits Of Submitting Sitemap
- Search Engine will index your blog and send organic traffic to your blog.
- Your CPC (Cost per click) will be increased.
- You will get good reputation in search engines eyes.
- and many more…
There are numerous benefits of getting search engine traffic which leads to the overall development of your blog.
Submitting Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools
The process is very easy and a beginner will take only some couple of minutes for submitting sitemap to GWT. Lets start…
Step 1: Go to your Google Webmaster Tools Dashboard.
Step 2: Now you will see all your blogs. Click on the blog whose sitemap you want to submit.
Step 3: Now you will see some graphs and charts on your screen. On the left sidebar, click on the “ Sitemap “.
Step 4: Then if you have submitted you sitemap previously then you can see your results there. But if you don’t have submitted sitemap yet then click on “ ADD/TEST SITEMAP “ located on the top right section of the page.
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Step 5: Then a text box will appear like below. Copy and paste above code in this text box and click on “ Submit Sitemap ” and you are all done.
Now sit back and let the Google bots do their work.
Customization
You can customize the above sitemap code as per your requirement. If you have 500 or less no of posts then you don’t need any modification but if you have more than 500 posts then you will have to modify this as per your blog posts.
| No of Posts | Sitemap |
| 1 - 500 | atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 |
| 500 - 1000 | atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=500&max-results=1000 |
| 1000 - 1500 | atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1000&max-results=1500 |
| 1500 - 2000 | atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1500&max-results=2000 |
and so on if you have 10000 posts then set your “max-results” to 10000.
Note:- The above mention sitemap code is valid for blogger blogs only. If you have another blog then copy your sitemap URL and paste there without your domain name. Ex:- Let my domain is www.xyz.com and my sitemap URL is www.xyz.com/sitemap.xml then i will paste only sitemap.xml and click on Submit Sitemap.
Final Words
Our pictorial tutorial will solve all your problem but accidentally if any thing wrong happened the i am always here to answer you, just drop a comment below and i will get back to you as time allows. Thanks for visiting.
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