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In this tip i will explains how to submit blogger sitemap to google webmaster tools.First let me explain what are sitemaps and how they will help You.The reason we use sitemaps is,they will help google to crawl,index pages from your site and tell you if there are any problems when they try to index it.It also helps you to know,how many pages exactly are indexed,and what people searched in the search engine to visit your site.
I am going To Explain detailed procedure on how to submit your blogger sitemap to google.
1.First,sign in to google webmaster tools with your gmail account.
2.After you sign in, you will see this asking you to add a site.Type your blog URL and click Add Site.
3. Once your site is added to Google Webmaster, you need to verify the site.This is to make sure that you are the owner of the site.
There are two ways to verify your site.
(a) add a Meta Tag .
(b) Upload an HTML file.
here we show you how to verify using Meta Tag method, when we use Meta Tag method Google will generate a Meta Tag code. Copy the META tag that is generated for you, and paste it in your site's home page before closing of head section.
if you are a blogspot user you have to go Now go to Blogger Dashboard – Layout – Edit HTML and then add the google genrated meta code before the closing of head section and save the Template.
4.After adding the meta tag return to Google Webmaster site, then you can click the button that says “Verify”.
Note: The second method of uploading an HTML file is NOT applicable to Bloggers using Blogger.com or Blogspot.com because this requires you to upload a file to the root directory of your Blog, which is not possible. There is therefore only one method for you to verify your site, and that is by inserting the Meta Tag as explained above.
5.After your site is verified, click on the Sitemaps tab . when you add a Sitemap, you will be providing Google with more details and information about your Blog. With Sitemaps , Google will crawl your site, report information on any errors in the Sitemaps tab, and index your Blog site at a faster rate.
Now Click the link “Add a Sitemap”.
if you are a blogspot user , then use following 2 Sitemaps:-
http://your-blog.blogspot.com/rss.xml
OR
http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
If it is redirected to Feedburner account, you may get an error in Google Webmasters tools while adding Blogger sitemap. For this particular problem, just adding ?redirect=false will solve this problem. So the sitemap address that
you should be adding is:
http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false
Advance Settings
The default number of URLs in Blogger XML sitemap is 25, so within Webmasters tools you will see there are (25+1) 26 total URLs. But if you have more than 25 posts and less than 100 posts then you can add the following sitemap:
http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=26&max-results=100
For more than 100 posts, add a second sitemap:
http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100
More than 200 posts repeat above to add a third sitemap:
http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100
And so on.
Save it and after some time check whether the sitemap is properly added or not.
change your-blog with the name of your blog.Congratulations! You have successfully added your Sitemaps. When you login to your Google Webmaster days later, you should be able to see the indexed pages and statistics of Google webcrawl of your Blog.
See Video Tutorial Here
