If you are new to blogging than
you must understand the importance of site map and use of Google Webmaster Tools .
The site provides the sense to different search engines to crawl your website
for better indexing. Google, Yahoo & Bing
these are the main search engines that the whole world is using however the Google
is among the top.
The blogger have
its own site map by default but it shows only those posts which you have posted
in recent times. To get better and organic traffic you must understand the
logic and significance of sitemaps.
The question is “how
to create sitemap in blogger”?
It’s very simple
to create a site map. This is the main link “atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500”
that we used to create sitemap. Hey don’t go so fast listen it has to be preceded
by your blog address.
For example,
My blog address is
http://sourcify.blogspot.com/ by adding
mentioned above link after my blog “http://sourcify.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500”
in search bar of a search engine your sitemap will be created.
Now we have to
move on the second step, you have to convey the message to the search that you
have a proper sitemap. Go to Google Webmaster Tools and click “Crawl” than click “Sitemaps”
after
clicking Sitemaps you will see the button “ADD/TEST SITEMAP” in upper right
corner, click to the “ADD/TEST SITEMAP”
a small window will open under the “ADD/TEST
SITEMAP” button paste the link “atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500”
in the window, now click the button “submit sitemap”
now your sitemap is submitted.
Another method of submitting a sitemap in blogger is adding your blogger sitemap in "robots.txt" file.
Just login to your Blogger blog & than go to dashboard than click to settings than search preferences
after clicking search preferences than click on edit the custom robots.txt.
Enable and paste the following text and click save changes. change your blog name in Blogger sitemap below.
1 User-agent: *
2 Disallow: /search
3 Allow: /
4
5 Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
now your sitemap has been submitted and search engines crawls your site they
will access your Blogger sitemap from robots.txt file.
don't hesitate to identify and tell any error.
