Tuesday, November 20, 2012

How to Add a Google Sitemap for Blogger Blog

Sitemaps are a way to tell search engines such as Google and Bing about pages on your site which the search engines might not otherwise discover. It lists pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that search engines knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by them in normal crawling process.

The default XML sitemap file of any Blogger blog will have only the 26 most recent blog posts. This is a limitation because some of your older blog pages, that are missing in the default XML sitemap file, may never get indexed in search engines. There’s however a simple solution to fix this problem.

Open the Sitemap Generator at http://ctrlq.org/blogger/ and type the full address of your blogspot blog (or your self-hosted Blogger blog). Click the Create Sitemap button and this tool will generate a complete XML sitemap of your Blogger blog that mentions all your blog posts and not just the recently published blog posts.

Basically what has been generated is a strings as follows:

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Suppose you have 1000+ blog post then you need to submit each line one by one

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

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