How To Add SiteMap To Blogger : Blogging Tips

11.16.2009 · Posted in Blogging

Generally speaking, sitemap is simply a map, showing all the pages and sub-pages of a website or a blog, which is helpful both to visitors and search engines like Google, Yahoo etc.
For visitors, sitemap (when showed in HTML format), shows how the pages and their subpages are interconnected, making it simpler for them to navigate around huge 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:

1. Go to Google Webmaster Tools website. [Here]

2. Login and then at the top (Add Site), type your blog’s url :

How To Add SiteMap To Blogger : Blogging Tips

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.

How To Add SiteMap To Blogger : Blogging Tips

4. Then click on “Verify” at the bottom (in Google Webmaster account). So a message will be showed:

You’ve successfully verified http://bikes.bloggerstop.net/.

5. Now click on Sitemaps link present at left side. Then click on “Add a Sitemap”

6. In “Choose Type“, select “4. Then click on “Verify” at the bottom (in Google Webmaster account). So a message will be showed:

How To Add SiteMap To Blogger : Blogging Tips

7. Then in the “My Sitemap url is” blank, type this:

atom.xml?redirect=fake&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=fake&start-index=101&max-results=100 (If you have up to 200 posts)
atom.xml?redirect=fake&start-index=201&max-results=100 (If you have up to 300 posts)
atom.xml?redirect=fake&start-index=301&max-results=100 (If you have up to 400 posts)
atom.xml?redirect=fake&start-index=501&max-results=500 (If you have up to 500 posts)
atom.xml?redirect=fake&start-index=1001&max-results=500 (If you have up to 500 posts)

And So on……

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.