A sitemap is a list of accessible pages on your website. Sitemaps helps search engines like google, yahoo and bing to easily crawl pages on your web page which allows in the better index of your website. As a blogger, you ought to create a sitemap so every time you're making a new post search engines like google and yahoo can crawl and index them easily. On this post let’s see the way to create sitemap for blogger blog and submitting it to google webmaster equipment and in robots.txt.
Default Blogger sitemap
By default every blogger blog will have sitemap, but the issue with that sitemap is that it only shows your recent blog posts. A perfect sitemap should contain the list of all your pages
so that search engines know the complete structure of your site. Let’s
see how to create sitemap for a Blogger blog.
How to create sitemap for Blogger
Creating sitemap is very very simple and this sitemap works for both of the self-hosted Blogger blogs and normal Blogger blogs. Just you should 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 a created sitemap for your Blogger blog, but still you need to
tell search engines about your sitemap so that bots can know about the structure of your site. There are two ways to tell the search engines about your sitemap.
1. Showing your sitemap in robots.txt file and 2. Submitting your sitemaps in Google webmaster tools
Adding your Blogger sitemap in robots.txt file
Login to your
Blogger blog and go to the
dashboard >> settings >> search preferences
and edit the custom robots.txt. Enable it and paste the following text and
click save changes. Make sure to change your blog name in the Blogger
sitemap below.
5 | Sitemap: http://sureyea.blogspot.in/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 |
So whenever the search engines crawls your site they will access your Blog's sitemap from the robots.txt file.
Submitting your Blogger sitemap in Google webmaster tools
You should Login to your
Google webmaster tools and then select your website. In your site dashboard click sitemaps below. Now click add/test sitemaps, add your sitemap in the input (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 the Google
webmaster tools. Now it’s ready for crawling and indexing. You can find about the number of pages crawled and indexed in Google webmaster tools.
If you would like then you can also submit your Bloggers sitemap to
Bing webmaster tools.
Hope this will help you on how to create a sitemap for Blogger and
submitting it in robots.txt and Google webmaster tools. Please leave
your comments below:-
So whenever the search engines crawls your site they will access your Blog's sitemap from the robots.txt file.
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