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If you are running a blog (be it on any platform), it is of utmost importance to submit you blog’ssitemap to the major search engines especially google. If you are unaware of the term ‘sitemap’, then sitemap is a list (usually in an xml format) of all the links of your content within your blog. That is, it will include the URLs of your blog pages, blog posts etc.
Advantags of submitting your blog’s sitemap to search engines.
1. Search engines will more likely to have timely indexing of your blog.2. All of the URLs on you blog will be accessed by search engines & are more likely to get indexed.3. Your blog will more frequently be crawled bygoogle & your newly created post will get indexed soon.4. Your blog will get increase in traffic from search engines as a result of most of your content being indexed.5. You will get lots of backlinks if you post a breaking news & it get indexed in google timely & on first page.
So, you can see that it is very useful to submit your blog’s sitemap to google. Infact, it is the first step in the process of improving your blog’s SEO.
How to submit my blog’s sitemap to google ?
It is quite easy to submit your blog’s sitemap to google. This post covers the steps involved in submitting yousitemap to google for both blogs hosted on blogspot as well as self hosted wordpressblogs.
For blogs hosted on blogger.com :
If you are using blogger.com for your blog, then it is quite easy to submit your sitemap. Infact, google will automatically verify you. Just follow the following simple steps :
1. Login to your blogger with your google account.
2. Open Google Webmaster Tools in a new tab or window.
3. You will see that google has a list of blogs that you have on blogger under that account.
4. Check the blogs, you want to add, & click add selected blogs.
5. Now you will see yor blog name listed under ‘Sites’. Click on it. You will be taken to your dashboard for thatblog. Here you can see your blog statistics (backlinks, search queries etc). Though it will not appear in the first go as google will take some days in accumulating information of your blog.
6. Click on ‘Site Configuration’ (in the left sidebar) & then ‘sitemaps‘ from the submenu.
7.Click on ‘submit a sitemap‘ button. You will be prompted to fill the complete address to your sitemap.
8. Here we will use your RSS feeds as your sitemap. So, after the site address, (i.ehttp://yourblogname.blogspot.com/) fill in:
feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
so the whole url becomes http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
9. Now click ‘submit a sitemap‘ button next to the url field.
10. You will now see that your sitemap (feed) listed in the table with the status ‘pending’. After some hours, it will get verified. So you now have your blog’s sitemap submitted to google.
For self hosted wordpress blogs :
If your are having a self hosted wordpress blog (just like mine), you will first need to read my post on verifying your ownership of your blog at Google Webmaster Tools. Also you need to have Google XML Sitemapwordpress plugin (which will create a sitemap for your blog) Simply follow the following steps :
1. Login to your Google Webmaters account.
2. Now click on your blog’s name & after getting into your webmaster dashboard of your blog, Click on ‘Site Configuration’ (in the left sidebar) & then ‘sitemaps‘ from the submenu.
4.Click on ‘submit a sitemap‘ button. You will be prompted to fill the complete address to your sitemap.
5. Now you just have to type sitemap.xml (or if you have set a custom path for your sitemap in Google XMLSitemap plugin, the enter that) next to your domain address :
9. Now click ‘submit a sitemap‘ button next to the url field.
10. You will now see that your sitemap (feed) listed in the table with the status ‘pending’. After some hours, it will get verified.
So you now have your blog’s sitemap submitted to google.
Hope you liked this post. Do ask your doubts in comments.
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