Even without sitemap and Google webmaster your site can be indexed into Google Search engine. but to make it fast process you will need to use Google webmaster tools. first and common question is that what is sitemap, sitemap is a XML (Extensible Markup Language) file. that lists all URLs for a blog or website. Its enable webmasters to add more information about each URLs. Sitemap helps webmaster to include information about the URL such as when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the blog. and this good for search engine to crawl the site more intelligently.
Sitemap allows you to tell search engine about the pages of your blog which are available for crawling. also there's a lot of benefits of adding sitemap to Google webmaster tools that will be discussed in next article with next topic of use of Google Webmaster tools. for now, let's move to the tutorial about how to add / submit
Blogger sitemap to Google webmaster tools.
Related : Blogger XML Sitemap Generator
How to Submit Blogger Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. ?
In blogger blog, your blog feed is your sitemap. You can get your blogger sitemap from below 2 URLs.
http://your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://your-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
So, now go to
Google webmaster tools and sign in with your Gmail account.
Once you signed in with Google webmaster tool, Your site with that account will automatically added into Google webmaster tools, if not then you can add your site by clicking on "Add a site" button located at top right side of the page.
Now, Choose your site and click on the name of you site, then you will be direct to the new page where you can manage all things related to your site.
Now, Navigate to
Traffic > Optimization > Sitemap and click on Add / Test Sitemap button.
Once an input box open up, enter your atom.xml in it. then finally click on "Submit Sitemap" button.
Related query parameters (to be appended to your feed URL):- max-results –add this if your blog has more than 25 posts. This is because on its own, the default feed URL only fetches 25 of your latest posts. To be safe use
max-results=500 since Blogger allows up to 500 number of posts per feed. - redirect=false -if you use FeedBurner to manage your blog feed, you probably had set your feed to redirect to FeedBurner’s URL. To make the sitemap work you need to stop the redirection.
- How to append the query parameters?
First append a question mark, then add the parameters. Separate each parameter with an ampersand (&). Example:
atom.xml?max-results=500&redirect=false
Google will take a few hours to process your submission before the status changes from Pending to OK.
Enjoy!