I have seen many questions regarding adding a Sitemap to Google’s Webmaster Tools for a Blogger blog. Many people don’t know that you already have a Sitemap-ready file created for you by Blogger, and that all you need to do is use that one in Webmaster Tools.
In this post I will look at adding your Blogger blog’s Sitemap to the Webmaster Tools so you can keep track of your pages using those tools.
Sitemap
A Sitemap is an XML file that contains specific information about the various pages that make up your web site or blog. Various online tools use Sitemaps to collect additional information about your web site.
Google’s Webmaster Tools uses your Sitemap to collection information about how often the pages on your site change, the modified date of each page, and the relative importance of the pages. While most of the information about your site is retrieved when Google crawls your web site, a Sitemap will complement this information with the additional information provided by your Sitemap.
It is important to keep in mind, however, that submitting a Sitemap will not influence the location of your pages in Google’s results pages, nor is it a guarantee that the pages listed in your Sitemap will be indexed by Google.
Your Blogger Blog’s Sitemap
By default, Blogger creates to feeds for you blog: an RSS and Atom feed. As you publish a post on your blog, the two feeds are updated with the new post’s information. This is great because Google’s Webmaster Tools can accept an Atom feed as a Sitemap.
There are currently two ways that you can add a Sitemap from your Blogger blog to Google’s webmaster Tools:
- By clicking a link and having Blogger do it for you.
- Manually adding one yourself.
Let’s look at both methods, and you can choose which one you prefer.
Having Blogger Add a Sitemap
Recently Blogger provided the ability to add a Sitemap for you. You can do this by using the following steps:
- Login to Blogger.
- From you dashboard, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
- Under Tools and Resources, click the Webmaster Tools link.
This should add all your blogger blogs to Webmaster Tools. If you are having trouble with this method, you can try adding it manually yourself.
Adding a Sitemap Manually
Sign up with Google’s Webmaster Tools and the log in. Add your site to the tool so it is displayed on your dashboard and perform any site verification. Once this is done, you can then add a sitemap.
- From the Webmaster Tools dashboard, click the Add link beside your blog URL.
- From the type dropdown list, select Add General Web Sitemap.
- In the text box (beside the domain name), enter in atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=50000. This will use your atom feed as your Sitemap and use the information for the first 50,000 pages listed in that file. Chances are you won’t have nearly 50,000 pages, but this is to ensure that all your pages are included.
- Once you have added your Sitemap location, click the Add General Web Sitemap button at the bottom.
After a little while Google will indicate if it managed to find and download your Sitemap, which you can see from your dashboard, or from the Sitemaps section with the Webmaster Tools.
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Thank you for this easy-to-follow procedure.
if we send a sitemap to google and then post new posts after sending does it index faster on google or takes more time?
Thanks! You were the first one with a straight answer on how blogger user’s should add SiteMap to the blog.
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thanks again, it works!
Great post!! was actually searching for it! thanks for clearing all my doubts in regards to submitting sitemap for blogs thanks for it
It was Great, so Simple, Thanks A Lot
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I have difficulty plz someone can help me out?
I am in a problem in doing this.I get error when I ‘ve done it.
thanks so so much i will try this tonight
i have some problems to submit sitemap …….how can i find these problems
thanks for the tip, i added two sitemaps for myself xDD
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icant add my sitemap to yahoo and ask .com please say me what ?s the wrong thing for me
ismy s?temap wrong plese chech it im not a spemmer or wrong person im a seo
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I have been using Blogger for quite some time and I didn’t even know this.
Thanks, I will add this to my list
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Thanks for sharing about sitemap tools. But bing webmaster do not accept my sitemap
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Ty for the tips
Hi,
This is a great blog… Bookmarked…
I was really struggling with the sitemap thing.
Thanks a lot
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I know this post is quite old, but a lot of the info is still good today. Thank you for providing it.
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Thanks, Nez. I believe the information is still valid for today as RSS feeds can be submitted as sitemaps.
Im lookjing for this for quite sometimes. Thanks I got it here! This is ok for me!
I did this for my site and it helped me alot.
Was searching for this kind of information.
Thanks a lot.
You’re welcome.
Thank you very much if not the info inyour site, I wasnt able to add site map to my blog. Thank you very much and God bless
hi., i have added atom.xml sitemap to webmaster, but when i check my blog on pearanalytics site, i get no sitemap.xml error, what i do?
i have my sitemap.xml file on my pc, how do i upload the file to root directory,
as a blogger, is it possible to submit
If you have a sitemap, then it should be located on the root of your web site. Both the atom and RSS feeds can also be used as sitemaps.
Thanks for help. I will add xml site map on my website.
Thanks VERY MUCH…
i just try it and it work very well on my blog, thanks…
Thanks paul..u have done a good job here..i heard about your posts from my friend..anyway..nw i became a fan of you..bookmarked you..thanks alot..hope things will work fine on my blogs..
Thanks, this really help me.
Even i’m so late to found this post but now i successfully submitted my sitemap to Google.
I have used the sitemaps as provided by you, but I needed to ask you one little thing: my submitted URLs show a total of 184; does it automatically include the new posts that I may write in the future?
And thanks for this post!
Since you are using the blog’s feed as a sitemap, it is automatically updated when you publish a new post.
thankyou for your advice on this matter it was very usefull and saved a lot of head ache lol….
I was searching this type of post and finally found it. I have created a new blog and wanted to submit sitemap. I have successfully submitted my sitemap to Google. Thanks !!!
No problem. With Blogger blogs, because the sitemap is listed in the robots.txt file, Google’s Webmaster tools will automatically pick it up anyway.
I’ve had my blogspot blog for three years and had no clue how to add a sitemap.
WordPress has a plugin for it but Blogger provide any info to create a sitemap.
thanks
The good news if you have a Blogger blog is that sites such as Google’s Webmaster tools will automatically pick up your Blogger blog’s sitemap. The reason is because the sitemap is listed in your blog’s robots.txt file.
It is helpful but can u guide how to agg stand alone page (not blog posts ) to sitemap ?
pls
Thanks, this was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful.
thanks its great
i have submitted my blog sitemap in this way but google in not indexing my page. how many days google takes to index page?
I was searching on the web were I can submit my sitemap for blogger blog and I saw you site in Google. I spend more time in reading some of your posts and honestly speaking I gain some knowledge from it. Very informative.
I’ve just spent the last hour trying to do this. I’ve read over a dozen sites but by far yours is the best and works. Thank you so much. Fantastic…
Thank you for the Great post…
Great post!! I was actually searching for it!! thanks for clearing all my doubts in regards to submitting sitemap for blogs
Thank you! You have the easiest and most clear instructions on adding sitemap to Blogger blogs.
This is what i looking for my blog http://www.digitdiary.blogspot.com 2-3 days ..good work
Thanks! You were the first one with a straight answer on how blogger user’s should add SiteMap to the blog. All other blogs I’ve searched told me to add it manually and, it wasn’t working!!!!
Adding a sitemap is not necessary and could lead to stale sitemaps – I explain why on my blog.
Thanks! that was really helpful
finally i found how to put my google webmasters sitemap without showing warnings!!
Phew…, after long hours searching up and down the net on how to submit a sitemap for my blog I finally did it!. Thanks a lot !!!:)
thanks works real gr8
thanks a lot ……… i going to add site map .
It’s not recommended to use 50000 as max-results. You should use a number from 100-500. As far as I know, 500 is the current limit of posts in your blogger feed.
So it’s better to create multiple sitemaps in chunks of 500 rather than having one sitemap with 50000 results.
Thanks for sharing. I did have to submit mine manually, but it was easy. I haven’t been getting much traffic from Google, so hope this helps.
You don’t need to do much with your Sitemap once it has been added. Just ensure that Google can read your Sitemap by logging into Webmaster Tools once in a while.
The Tools contain much more information than just allowing you to add a Sitemap.
This one looks so incomplete…
I know up to this much now. What next?
Is it suffice just to add sitemap and sitback?
NEED MORE ON THIS…
Thanks!