Generally speaking, sitemap is simply a website-map, showing all the pages and sub-pages of a website or a blog, which guides both visitors and search engines like Google, Yahoo etc. to roam around your blog. And when search engines roam around your blog, it is called indexing of your website. And as "indexing" is one of the most important aspects of SEO, so submission of sitemaps to Google/Yahoo/Bing is very very important.
[check out this post on how to submit your sitemap to Yahoo and Bing]For visitors, sitemap (when displayed in HTML format - you can create and download your Blog*Spot sitemap in HTML format from here, then upload this html file to MyDataNest and finally link it from your blog), shows how the pages and their subpages are interconnected, making it easier for them to navigate around big websites.
And being a webmaster/blogger you must have a sitemap, as it's a search engine optimization tool too, that helps you to get more traffic from the search engines.
Now if you are using blogger as your blogging platform, then there is no direct method to simply upload an xml or HTML sitemap file to your blog. So you can follow these steps to add a site map to your blogspot blog:
STEP #1
Go to Google Webmaster Tools website. [Here]
STEP #2
Login and then at the top (Add Site), type your blog's url :
STEP #3
Now you have to verify that you own that blog, so click on Verify your site, and select the "Add a Meta Tag" option.
Then copy the meta tag into your blog's "Edit HTML" section of "Layout" tab, and save the template.Now you have to verify that you own that blog, so click on Verify your site, and select the "Add a Meta Tag" option.
STEP #4
Then click on "Verify" at the bottom (in Google Webmaster account). So a message will be displayed:
 You've successfully verified http://bikes.bloggerstop.net/. |
Now click on Sitemaps link present at left side. Then click on "Add a Sitemap"
STEP #6
In "Choose Type", select "Add General Web Sitemap"
STEP #7
Then in the "My Sitemap url is" blank, type this:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100 (If you have up to 100 posts)
And if you have more than 100 articles or posts, then you have to add more sitemaps, after you have already added the previous one, like these:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100 (If you have up to 200 posts)
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100 (If you have up to 300 posts)
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=301&max-results=100 (If you have up to 400 posts).
That's it, Now you can revisit your account after some days, and see a number of statistics provided by some of which are even better than Google analytics, as you can see the Google pagerank information for your blog's different pages, given by Google itself.
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Write commentsI wana try it for my one blog that can not be done by me till now in this proccess Tasty Fruits
ReplyHi, For the past 3 months I have been trying to get all my sites included in the sitemap without success. But after following the advice given above I was able to add the sites for indexing consideration. This post was very helpful to me. Thanks.
ReplyHi, I am happy top know, that the post was so helpful to you !
ReplyIf you have 1000 or 2000 posts then?
Replyshould I do in "atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100" in this passion, adding 100 posts in each sitemap! or any easy method..
Hi gadgetsarea
Replyyou can make it max-results=1000, but I cannot guarantee you that it will add all the posts, without leaving anyone, cause there are some issues with the sitemaps of blogger blogs.
and even for 1000 posts, you'll hardly require 10 sitemaps, which is ofcourse not a big deal
(1000 posts for a normal blogger is the work of almost 2 years or atleast 1.5 years)
Divya Sai, Thanks for your cool replay, I just figured out if one use feedburner as blog feed, the limit to SiteMap would be 500 url's, so if 1000 or more posts, I feel the SiteMap would be "atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500" and additional url's as you've mentioned above "atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=1000" and so on.., If not correct me in case!
ReplyBut Divya Sai, I wonder max results in all cases should be 500, (max-results=500) correct me if I am wrong.. Thanks again
Replyatom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
next sitemap:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
and similarly next:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500
Ohhh I am really sorry..I typed it wrong 8-} .....
Replyyes you are absolutely correct....use the codes exactly as written by you....
I am removing the previous comment, so that nobody uses the wrong code....
thanks a lot for correcting me !
Regards
Sai
Hi
ReplyI m Nimisha here thanx for this tips
It's working fine...
You are welcome Nimisha !
ReplyHi!,
ReplyI am a new guy who interesting on the blog. This tip is very helping me.
Thanks,
Welcome Tumi !
ReplyYou can subscribe to this blog, if you want to get all the new posts delivered to your mail
hi Divya,
ReplyThough I am Able to verify the acccout by meta tag
I am not able to add nay sitemap.
When I click on the Add Sitemap option
it is taking me to this link http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34575&hl=en.
I dont know what the reason is. I tried the URL with and without www and http://
Still not wrking.
am very frustrated wth this issue
Pls help me out!!
Hi, are you able to see the same image, as displayed after 6th step ?
Reply(of course with your blog's url, followed by a blank) ?
hi divia
ReplyThank you for the tip but i am joining to indian chip's qeustion. me nither cant add a site map and i cant get to step 6 in your tip.
Than
Well in case of Indian Chip, he has verified so next step is #6, so can you tell me whether you have verified your blog or not ?
ReplyHai Divya
ReplyN!! it is not taking me to the 6th step.!!
HI,
ReplyOnce you have verified your blog, you are done with 4th step, now 5th step is simply clicking on a link "Add a Sitemap", so i guess there can be nothing wrong in that.....
So u are at step 6:
where you do not need any www, simply copy this:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
and paste it the blank, as displayed in the image at step 6...
Thanks Divya...
ReplyI did it..!!
But as you said there is no option like(Choose Type", select "Add General Web Sitemap"
).
I simply put that "atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100"
Now its wrking........
Thanks alot...
People like you help us in increasing our interest towards blogging!!
Thanks to Blogger templates too!!
ReplyWelcome dude,
ReplyBoth 'Divya Sai' and 'Blogger Templates' are my comments
For diff browsers I use diff profiles
Hey thanks for your information. But how can i add an html file like mypage.html so that i can access that file by typing
Replyhttp://imyideas.blogspot.com/mypage.html ??
is there any way to do it in my blog for Govt employees news
Do NOT select the method of verification by uploading a html file,
Replyas already mentioned by me (in 3rd step), verify by "Adding a meta tag" in your blog template !
Thanks. I have done that.
ReplyBut as I have started the blog only a week before, I think I have to wait for changes to happen. I can see the blog has not yet started indexed in google.
Thanks for this valuable information
Hello Ram,
Replyyes you need to wait a few days, before you could see some updated stats in your account, just keep on adding content to your blog as usual, and try to find some friends who could connect/link to your blog from their blogs.
All That I can say Thanks a lot for information and contribution
ReplyWelcome Aamir, I am glad you were here !
Replydo we have to remove the mega data tag given by google after the verification of our website
ReplyHi Umakant,
ReplyOnce verified you may remove the meta tag, but I am not sure. Anyways there's no harm in keeping it in the template, it doesn't inc the load time, nor is it against any SEO...
Thanks, very informative and it works for google at least.
ReplyIs it possible to add multi meta tags ie. msn and yahoo?
Meta tags work universally for all Search Engines...
Replygreat advice! cheers for the help
ReplyThank you sooo much! Your site has been the only helpful one so far, all the other ones didn't work for me. Great site!
ReplyThanks for your feedback Sassy
ReplyThat is a very useful post.A little more clear in the 6 step will be very helpful for newbies.I think 5oo can be used in place of 100.
ReplyHello 'Shadow',
ReplyThanks for commenting and your feedback, this tutorial is based on the previous version of "Google Webmaster Tools", since the UI has changed at GWT, so I do not exactly know if there's any modification in the steps to add a sitemap, it would be really kind if you could tell me the modification you have noticed
Regards
Sai
Hi,
ReplyThanks a lot for the r such a advice. Thanks for such a wonderful blog.
Cheers
Srikanth
How much Time it will take after succefully submission.
ReplyIs it helps in the ranking in the google
Welcome Srikanth...
Reply@Dude
Once you have submitted the sitemap, only half of your work is done, now depending on your blog's popularity (PageRank) Google will keep on downloading your sitemap, and therefore the posts.
Your other half work is to frequently check your account (GWT account) for any errors etc. and then keep optimising them.
hi divya,
ReplyI submitted my site map 2-3 months back...in this period of time my posts goes over 100 now....
after seeing your article i try to submit more site map...but some error comes
Error on 1st code :-
Invalid tag value
This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit.
Error On 2nd Code :-
Invalid tag value
This XML tag has an invalid value. Please fix it and resubmit.
Same error comes 4 times...please help me out
Hello Kashif,
ReplyTell me the exact code you typed while submitting the sitemap, like this one:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100
hi Divya,
Replythanx for reply.....
in the site map option my blog url is already there i add this code which I copied from your post
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100
Yeah that's the correct way, can u send me screenshot of ur sitemaps submitted and the page showing errors?
Replyi want a help i can't verify my site at google webmaster tools
Replyok i verfied my site thnx
Replyohh that's gud....happy for you
Replybut i can't find Sitemaps link i tried ctrl+f put nothing i need a help from you Divya Sai
ReplyIt's so helpful divya... Thanks a lot!
ReplyYour blog is very very informative for SEO blogger related things.
Keep posting man!
hi there,thanks for information,
Replycan i add rss feed sitmap to my google webmaster account?
Yes Adnan,
Replyyou can add rss feed too, but those sitemaps written in the post above are enough, and will actually submit more pages than the usual rss sitemap, anyways there's no harm in adding more than 1 sitemap, to add a rss sitemap, click on "Add a Sitemap", then paste this in the blank provided:
feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
thanks buddy
ReplyHi,
ReplyI added my sitemap using Atom feed of Blogger (using Redirect) but I am consistently getting an error of Invalid Tag.
And also this is not indexing all my URLs.
any help will be greatly appreciated.
If you are using the redirect in your tags, then it should have indexed almost all your posts. Anyways can you show me some screenshots of the error?
ReplyHi,
ReplyThe screen-shot is uploaded at http://is.gd/4YrPv
If you check, there are some errors and THESE are the ones that have been partially indexed!! The error message screen-shot http://is.gd/4YrUZ
Your tags are perfect, anyways if the error persists, then first try this:
ReplyChange atom.xml with rss.xml (keep rest of the link-tag same)
i.e.
rss.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
If again error is detected, then instead of starting from 1, do it from 10, like this:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=10&max-results=100
You can try both these methods at the same, but plz do tell me your results.
Thank you, will update this and let you know the results.
ReplyHi,
Replyjust to update you, I did both the things you suggested. They seem to be performing equally - none being better (screenshot here - http://is.gd/4YKTS )
However, one surprising thing is, only the maps with Status as errors have any indexing! And also, 3 or 4 more pages got indexed since morning; so now I am also not that sure if it is a matter of time or matter of 'waiting for Goddot!'
Can you make out something from this? Does this make sense to you?
What exactly is the message being displayed, when you hover your mouse over that yellow warning/exclamation mark?
ReplyThanks Sai for being around... still, and not giving up on me
ReplyI am not getting any message when I hover over the "warning" sign. But when I try and get more details on the sitemap, I get this Invalid URL error.
I guess, many other people have been getting the same error.
I am pretty clueles on how to proceed, becoz out of 500+ articles, just about 80 odd show up on Google Search. Therefore I would assume, all the other articles are still not indexed. Thats a collosal waste!
Yeah this seems to be quite complicated... 8-}
ReplyActually according to the error screenshot, it says the error is on line 3 of your sitemap. And in Blogger we cannot modify the sitemap file, as we do not have any access to it.
Even if you change the template, as the file is located on your domain(your_domain.com/atom.xml), this error will not be troubleshooted.
Is this "line 3" error common to other sitemaps you have submitted?
Hi,
ReplyYes, the Line 5 error is consistent across other errors maps.
Is there any other way we can submit the sitemaps? Not sure of this, but can we give Feedburner urls as sitemap?
Does this make sense?
Regards,
P
Ps: I know getting indexed is the KEY of getting of dungeons, else my site will languish there. Only other option will be to move to Wordpress
I mean, getting out of dungeons..
ReplyHello Sai,
ReplyJust wanted to update things: still no luck. The no. of urls indexed are still very low.
Thanks,
Hey buddy,
ReplyI have checked all your feed links:
http://phoenixcapital.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://phoenixcapital.blogspot.com/posts/default?alt=rss
http://phoenixcapital.blogspot.com/posts/default
http://feeds.feedburner.com/PhoenixCapital
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/PhoenixCapital
They are all working fine, submit them all, I am unable to find the reason behind that error.
Tried the first three no luck: the status is still the same.
ReplyHowever I dont know how to submit the Feedburner URLs as it does not seem to be possible on Google Sitemaps (Webmasters tool). Please let me know how!
This is getting tougher than Rocket science ooof
Yeah, of course you cannot add feedburner feeds, I was just checking all you xml files.
ReplyWell this can be the final try, lets see if it works :-/
Go to settings -> Site Feed
Now redirect your "Post Feed Redirect URL" to this address "http://feeds2.feedburner.com/PhoenixCapital"
Then save it
Now in GWT, add these two sitemaps:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
atom.xml?start-index=1&max-results=100
That's it.
Hey Sai,
ReplyThanks for being with me till now..
Tried all these.. no luck. Screenshot's here. http://is.gd/5e10A
Many thanks for your help. Your post is easy to understand.
ReplyYou are most welcome Mike
ReplyWow....Excellent post, i am searching for this. my blog is a photo blog, it contains 700 + posts. I dont know how to add site map if 100's of posts published in any blog.
ReplyNow i am happy to adding site map as u mentioned ...!!!
I will come back later.
Thank you.
Hi,
ReplyI've clicked VERIFY and after that it looks like it's been verified but no "You've have successfully..." sign. I can't find where I can add a sitemap 8-}
Thanks is very useful tips! I'm linking your post to my site @ http://idea2empire.blogspot.com/
ReplyDo you mistake in here:"
Replyatom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100 (If you have up to 200 posts)
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100 (If you have up to 300 posts)
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=301&max-results=100 (If you have up to 400 posts)."
No there's no mistake, just don't use the text inside the brackets (including the brackets) white submitting.
ReplyHi Divya..
Replyi'm kinda new in this blogging things and i've been searching for this info all over the net for sometimes and finally i end up on your site and found what i've been searching for all this time. Thank you very much for this wonderful tips!!
you've been very very helpful...
2 thumbs up and 5 star for your great site!!
this is my first blog : http://theoneandonlytruly.blogspot.com
i'm back ;;) i read the 'comment like this' instruction after i posted my comment,, so here's my 2nd comment as you recommended.. thanks again for the usefull info.. keep up the good work!!
Replyhello Divya Sai... i did wat u explained above..
Replyadded
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
in the site map.. but google is not indexing any url..
can u guide me on wat should i do???
Hello,
ReplyI must commend your effort here. You are really providing value.
What worries me is as a beginner with little or not posts yet do I have to submit the sitemap URL? I don't mean creating a webmaster tool account. I mean is step 6 neccessary for me?
Well there's no harm in adding sitemaps, in fact it will only be beneficial to you....the early you start...the better
ReplyThanks Sai for your prompt response.
ReplyI guess I should just use atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100 for 100 pages since I don't have any posts yet. And when my posts beats the 100 mark I can add more. I mean for say 200 pages. Right?
Yup exactly, that's what you have to do. Don't you want me to have a look on your blog? :P
Replyhi i had used method when i was using .blogspot.com domain it worked without any prob
Replybut now i am using a custum domain and now when i do the same method it says URL CONTAINS ILLIEGAL CHARACTERS see the snap shot http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oPDercM_1xE/TBpI_9MKzII/AAAAAAAAARg/5iKZmuWblto/s1600/sitemap_eror.bmp
I went from blogspot addy to a custom domain too. The error I'm getting when I use atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100 or any of those is: Sitemap is HTML
ReplyYour Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.
What should I do about that? Prior to switching to a custom domain that worked fine but now--no dice.
Try adding other sitemaps, as listed in my comment (#65) above.
ReplyHey thanks a lot for replying , i already that sitmap in ur 65th comment but by using that it submits only few url...
ReplyAnyother idea ??
It works! Turns out I had to add the www before quicktradesblog.com haha.
ReplyThanks so much!
Haha...ok...anyways
Replyall's well that ends well
thanks for all the information,
ReplyThis was helped,
it's good
Hi!I'm sktboyasif.
ReplyI have two question
Q1:-I have created a blog in blogger.com and google has been autometically add my blog into google search engine but only 5 post has been indexed.now i want to submit sitemap so that my all post index by google.Can I do it?If yes then how?
Q2:-If I have submitted sitemap to google of my blog and I want to post more post after submitted sitemap then how other post will be index,whereas I have already submitted sitemap of my blog?
hi!
Replygoogle has been already indexed my blog but only 5 posts and I want to add all posts in google.Now can i use your above method to add all post in google,whereas my blog already indexed in google but only 5 posts.?
THAAAAAAAAAAANKS
Replywhat can i do when i post new posts?how can i add new post in site map?.when i resubmit my site map webmaster says submitted URL30,24URL in web index,how can i add all URL in web index?.please help me
ReplyI tried so many times, I couldn't add the sitemap for my blog. As well as no option to add sitemap in the updated webmaster tool option. Thanks.
ReplyI have had my blogspot acct verified and added analytics all without adding anything in edit HTML. I am getting crawled with stats but I'm not indexed so I'm not in google . The question I cannot get answered is if I need to add some XML code on the blog and where. Help me
Replyget indexed . I'm losing hair.
I had submitted my sitemap to google. It is showing URLs submitted "21" and URLs in web index "21". what does it mean?
Replythanks
http://discoverdreamland.blogspot.com
@Cynthia
ReplyYour blog is being indexed by Google, chk this:
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&q=site:myjunkinspiredlife.blogspot.com
You just need to do some SEO to rank better in Google.
@Ashish
It just means, all your posts submitted by the site-map are incexed by Google without any problem.
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