How to Submit a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tool

Creating a sitemap helps search engines to better crawl and categorize your site or blog. A Sitemap is nothing but a list of accessible pages in your website. Sitemaps helps search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask to easily crawl pages in your site which helps in better index.For blog you must create a sitemap so whenever you make a new post search engine can crawl and index them easily. Here you can see how to submit a sitemap for Google webmaster tool.

Default Blogger sitemap

By default blogger have a sitemap, but with this sitemap only show recent blog post. A perfect sitemap is which is should contain the list of all pages, So that search engine know the complete structure of your site. See how tocreate sitemap for blogger.

How to create sitemap for blogger

Creating a sitemap is very simple and this sitemap works for both self-hosted Blogger and normal Blogger blog. Copy and paste all the given code on text box.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Example: http://www.sites18.com /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Now we have create sitemap for blogger blog, but we need to tell searchengine about our sitemap so that bots can know our site structure. There are two ways to tell search engines about our sitemap.

Showing your sitemap in robots.txt file and
Submitting your sitemaps in Google webmaster tools.

Adding Blogger sitemap in robots.txt file

For adding Blogger sitemap in robots.txt file follow below steps.

Login on Blogger >> Bashboard >> settings >> search preferences and edit the custom robots.txt.Enable and paste the below text and click save changes.

Note: Change your blog name in Blogger sitemap below.

User-agent: *

Disallow: /search

Allow: /

Sitemap: http://www.sites18.com /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

 Submitting Blogger sitemap in Google webmaster tools.
StepsLogin on Google Webmaster Tool with Your Gmail ID and password.
Click Add a site.
Add your site URL and submit
Generated Meta Tag Paste on your sites or blog before </head> Tag.

If your sites is already submitted to Google Webmaster Tool Then Just login on Webmaster Tool. And

Choose your site and click on Manage site.

Click on Add / Test SITEMAP

Copy and paste all the given code on text box

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Click on Submit Sitemap. 

That's It.

Balaji Mote

How to Submit a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tool