Create sitemap XML for Blogger blog in 1 minute.
A Sitemap is a list of accessible pages in your website. Sitemaps helps search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to easily crawl pages in your site which helps in better index. As a blogger you must create a sitemap so whenever you make a new post search engines can crawl and index them easily. In this post will guide you to create sitemap for Blogger blog and submitting it to Google webmaster tools in just 1 minute.
Default Blogger sitemap
By default your blogger blog will have sitemap, but the issue with that sitemap is it only shows your recent blog posts. A perfect sitemap is that it should contain the list of all you pages so that search engines know the complete structure of your site. Let’s see how to create sitemap for Blogger blog.
How to create sitemap for Blogger
Creating sitemap is very simple. Just use this (atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500)next to your blogs URL. See example below.
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Now you have created sitemap for your Blogger blog, but you need to tell search engines about your sitemap by Submitting your sitemaps in Google webmaster tools
Submitting your Blogger sitemap in Google webmaster tools
Login to your Google webmaster tools and select you website. In your site dashboard click sitemaps below. Now click add/test sitemaps, add your sitemap (just the atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500) and submit your sitemap.
That’s it you have successfully submitted your sitemap in Google webmaster tools. Now it’s ready for crawling and indexing. You can find the number of pages crawled and indexed in Google webmaster tools.
If you like then also submit your Bloggers sitemap to Bing webmaster tools.
Hope this helped you on how to create sitemap for Blogger and submitting it in Google webmaster tools. Feel free to leave your comments below.
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