To be successful in your blogging
career you must have to
generate decent organic traffic to your blog. By the term “organic traffic” I
mean the traffic which comes to your blog through search engines like Google.
If you are a new blogger then you should be aware with the Google Webmaster Tools. This is a great tool which is provided by
Google itself. It is useful for bloggers and webmasters to get their blog or
website index by the Google and it also help to improve our blog’s crawling
rate.
You just need to
verify your blog ownership in Google Webmaster Tools and then submit a simple
sitemap. It is very important to submit blogger sitemap to
Google in terms of SEO which tells Google about your blog and
its content. Whenever you update your blog with new posts, your sitemap helps
to index them easily in search engines. This is what we are gonna discuss in this
post. Let see how to add blogger sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.
Submit Blogger
Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools
Below are some easy
steps you have to go through in terms to submit your BlogSpot blog sitemap.
§ Click on the blog title for which you want to
add sitemap.
§ Click on Sitemaps button
as shown below.
§ At the top right corner of the page, press Add/Test sitemap button.
§ Once you click the button, a small box will
appear as shown in the screenshot below.
§ Add the below code in the text field.
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
This is the sitemap
code for your blogger blog which you need to add.
§ Press “Submit Sitemap”
button.
§ Refresh the page.
Congratulation! You have finished the process of
submitting your blog sitemap.
Note: The above sitemap will work for 500 posts only. If you
have more than 500 posts published in your blog, then you have to add one more
sitemap. Whole procedure will be same but at this time you have to add this
code.
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
The sitemap which we
submit to Google Webmaster Tools is a XML sitemap which is used by search
engines to find our content easily. There is HTML sitemap too which is for our
blog readers. We should add sitemap page to our blog so that our readers can
easily view all of our blog posts at the single location. It’ll be easy for
them to read post which they want to. If you don’t know how to add a sitemap
page in blogger, then here is a tutorial for you.
This was the step by
step guide on how to add blogger sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools. If you
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