Google Webmaster Tools always ask webmaster to submit a sitemap or number of sitemaps which will explain how contents in a website are arranged. Submitting a website sitemap will help search engines to easily crawl and index your website. For WordPress and some other content management systems there are plenty of plugins available to create website sitemaps. Right now there is no inbuilt feature in blogger. I think they are planning to roll out this feature soon in blogger, because official Google blog have a sitemap.
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| How to submit blogger sitemap to Google webmaster |
What is a Sitemap?
A sitemap is essentially a file hosted among the other files in your website that provides search engines that may visit (crawl) your page with information about the content of your website. The site map protocol typically defines XML structure that includes the website URLs and, optionally, three other pieces of information:
- How often the URL is updated.
- When the URL was updated last.
- A priority of the URL in relation to other pages on the site.
Why get a sitemap?
Sitemaps help you improve your search engine coverage and ranking. If you verify ownership of your website with search engines such as Google and Bing, you can access a wealth of information about how Google sees your website and how visitors are finding you.
- Maximise your search engine coverage and ranking.
- Improve the speed which your pages get listed.
- Take advantage of Google and Bing webmaster tools.
- Google how Google crawls, indexes and ranks your site.
- Analyze search data to see how many people find you.
- Receive alerts about problems.
- Check who links to you.
Submitting your Blogger sitemap in Google webmaster tools
- Go to Webmaster Dashboard and click on your site address.
- On the left panel choose Crawl button > Sitemaps - then click on the Add/Test Sitemap button.
- Now add each of the following codes:
/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500
- If your blog have lots of pages, add the sitemaps below:
/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500
/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2001&max-results=500
/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2501&max-results=500
/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=3001&max-results=500