BLOGGER SITEMAP
Sitemap plays an important role for your website and blog’s SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Which helps your website to grow and rank in google search engine. Lets take an example to understand the concept. Whenever you purchase a book, you have seen that the book’s first page contain the indexing which includes all the information of chapters and like this its easy for you to understand which chapter is having what information. Same like this, Sitemaps is going to do an indexing of your website or blog and like this google can understand that your website is having what information.
The process of creating a sitemap for a website and a blog are two completely different task. In my previous post I have explained about how to create a sitemap for website and upload in google webmaster tool but in this post I am going to explain you about blogger sitemap, how to create a sitemap for your blogger and update it to the google webmaster tool.
HOW TO GENERATE SITEMAP FOR BLOGGER
For website, we use to generate sitemap from www.xml-sitemaps.com . You no need to create a blogger sitemap. Because, blogger creates a sitemaps of your blog automatically by default. Now the question is, where do we find the sitemap of our blog. So, here is the link (www.yourblogname.blogger.com/sitemap.xml). For example, my blog name is www.technicaltech1.blogspot.com so my my sitemap URL will be www.technicaltech1.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml.
HOW TO ADD YOUR BLOG TO GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOL
- Login to your Google Webmaster Tool
- Click on ADD A PROPERTY
- Enter your blogger URL and click on add.
- Now you have to verify that this particular blog is belongs to you.
- Select Alternate Methods and click on HTML tag.
- It will generate a unique code. Copy the code and paste it into your blogger’s Home page. It should be under first <head> section. For this follow the following steps:
- Login to your blogger account
- Go to Themes
- Select Edit HTML
- Search for first <head> section, press enter and paste the code.
- Click on save theme
- Go back to your google webmaster tool and click on Verify.
- You will get a message saying, Congratulations, you have successfully verified your ownership of your blog. Click on continue.
Its all done. Now, your blogger sitemap is ready to upload in google webmaster tool.
HOW TO ADD SITEMAP TO GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOL
- Go to Crawl
- Sitemaps
- Click on ADD/TEST SITEMAPS
- Enter your sitemap’s URL and click on Test. (NOTE: it will show you the blog name/ just you have to enter sitemap.xml)
- Once you pass the test, again paste the URL and this time click on submit.
Bingo, its all done.
You may also like to watch the tutorial in HINDI:
If you are new to build and grow your webiste. This video will be very very helpfull for you.
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