Blogger Tricks

What is Sitemap ??

In very simple words a "sitemap" is a collection of all pages of your website which usually webmasters put on their websites to tell search engines about the pages under their websites. It is depend on webmaster that he/she wants to include all the pages or can also submit that pages only which he/she want to be index in search engines.

Their are commonly two types of sitemaps :-

1.) HTML Sitemaps

2.) XML Sitemaps

What are HTML sitemaps??

HTML sitemaps: A "html sitemap" is a html page which contains all or webmaster defined html links for the websites. They submit this webpage to search engines instead of submitting the single pages.

What are XML sitemaps??

XML sitemaps:- You can call "XML sitemap" as an advance version of HTML sitemaps. A XML site map is also a collection of all or webmasters defined webpages in XML with some additional information (meta tags) to tell the search engines about particular page so that search engine can crawl the webpage more smartly.

Why Sitemaps are important?

Sitemaps are very important if you had recently created some blog or website since at the beginning stage all you webpages are not properly linked. If you are having a sitemap and when you submit that sitemap to search engine the robot will crawl all that pages whether the linking is not between them. So if you sitemap is indexed by any search engine that's mean all pages present in that sitemap is crawled by search engine.

What Google says about "sitemaps" : why they are so important ??

1.) You website may have some pages which are not easily accessed by Googlebot (Google Crawler) during the crawl process. For example - AJAX & Flash pages.

2.) May be your website is new and pages on your websites are not properly linked with each other in that case sitemaps are important since during crawl process crawler moves from one page to another link page and if all the links on same page then it is very easy for the crawler.

3.) Your website may have large numbers of archive pages which are not properly linked with each other.

4.) We prefer the "XML sitemap" since XML sitemap contains some additional meta tag including when the page last modified and how frequently the particular page changes so that Google can re-index that page and avoid the duplicate content which helps you in improving your page ranking.

For more information that how to generate xml sitemap and how to submit the xml sitemaps to the search engine.

Sitemap for blogger

Hello Readers!

We believe that our articles are helping you to improve your site ranking and helping you in SEO also. Today we explain "How to generate a site map?" and "How to submit a sitemap?"

How to "generate sitemap for blogger or blog or blogspot"??

It is very easy to generate a site map for your blog or for your website. You can generate your website for manually for automatically.

For automatic sitemaps. Please go on the go on the below site and submit your site to generate sitemap. It will take fraction of second and generate sitemaps for your blog or blogspot or blogger.

Sitemap Generator :- http://ctrlq.org/blogger/

the above website will generate sitemaps in following formats :-

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

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

OR if your site is having more than 500 pages then for every 500 pages it will give a seprate sitemap

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

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

ans so on.....for every 500 pages.....

Now we move to the next section of this article

How to "submit the sitemaps to blogger or blog or blogspot?"

You can submit the sitemaps in two ways :-

"Submitting sitemaps for blog from your blogger"

1.) From you blogger : Below are the steps to submit sitemaps right from your blogger

(a) Log in to your blogger account>>>>then "your dashboard" >>>>>then "SETTINGS" >>>>> then search preferences

(b) Now custom robotos.txt >>>> click "edit" and add the above generate code in site map as suggested below :-

User-agent: *

Disallow: /search

Allow: /

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

RED colour part is already their you just place your sitemap link after the Allow:/

(c) Now save it and exit. You are done now when google bot will come on you site it will read your site map and index it. You are done with 1st method if you want you can go with 2nd option also.

"Submitting sitemaps for blog from the webmaster tool"

We believe that most of the webmaster don't have the webmaster account with google we recommend that please create an account with webmaster tool. You and create your account on google.com/webmasters

After creating an account on webmaster tool. Log in to webmaster tool

(a) Click on your site then click on "Optimization" then click "Sitemaps" on left hand site pane

(b) If you had not submitted any sitemaps in past then it will show that no sitemap here. Now you can submit your sitemap. On top of right site site a button will come "add/test sitemaps" click on that button then a pop-up will come.

It already shows http://youblogname.blogspot.com/

you have to enter the following in the box and hit submit sitemap

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 (if you have up to 500 pages)

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=5011&max-results=500 (if you have more than 500 pages up to 1000)

Now you can immediately see that how much page you have submit to google and then status also "Pending" or "Indexed".

It will approx take 48 Hrs to indexed all your pages.

You are done now.

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