Wednesday 13 February 2013

Submitting Sitemaps for Blogger.com on Webmasters Tools

Creating an XML site map and submitting it to the webmasters tool is as easy as generating it automatically and just uploading the generated file to your server and directing  webmasters to it:
1- sign in to webmasters Tool
2- Open Optimization > Sitemap
3- Click on the red button on the upper right corner that says "Add/Test Sitemap"
4- You will see your URL and a blank box to refer to your sitemap.xml file
example: http://www.haveresults.com/sitemap.xml 

But, if you are not using your own server to host your files (like having a blog) you will need another way to create a sitemap without the need to have a server to host it.

To do so is very easy:

1- Use a Sitemap generator for Blogs like XML Sitemap generator for Blogger
2- write your blog's URL and generate the sitemap
3- Your sitemap will be generated in a form of an Atom RSS feed

Example:

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




If your blog has more than 1000 posts, then add one more sitemap URL

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500


If it has more than 1500 posts, then add one more sitemap

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500


Continue this process depending upon the number of posts on your blog. So this means that you will be adding additional sitemaps for every 500 posts.




4- take this code atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
and paste it in the Google Webmasters Tools as mentioned before

5- you can also log into your Blogger Account CMS > Settings > Search Preferences > Custom Robots.txt
and paste the snippet you generated from the XML Sitemap generator for Blogger tool
like that