As shown in Blogger, Feedburner, Sitemaps and Submitting All Your Posts Blogger Feeds Google « phydeaux3 Blogger blogs generally do not need to add their sitemap to Google Webmasters as they are usually well crawled. Also a sitemap is included in the default robots.txt file in the blog root :
http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/robots.txt
Load the above URL in browser after putting in your blog name instead of MYBLOG and you will see :
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Sitemap: http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated
The sitemap is shown in the last line.
Adding your sitemap as the feed from your blog faces another difficulty when your feed has been redirected. In this case login to Google Webmasters Dashboard and click on link under Sitemap. First you will have to add your site to Google Webmasters. In that case paste your blog URL in the Add site box and click the Add site button.
When adding sitemap choose the General web sitemap option and in the box paste this code :
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
If your blog has more than 100 posts click Add a Sitemap link once more and paste this code :
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100
If your blog has more than 200 posts repeat above to add athird sitemap and paste this code :
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100
Save your sitemaps and visit the site again after some time to check that they have been verified as shown in picture below :
THE PREFERRED DOMAIN PROBLEM
Another problem may arise in adding a sitemap if you have chosen a preferred domain name for your site in Google webmasters Sitemaps Tools. For example you may have chosen :
http://www.MYBLOG.blogspot.com
instead of :
In such cases you will have to add the preferred domain as a new site to Google Webmasters Dashboard using the Add a Site box and then add a sitemap to the preferred domain.
31 comments:
Excellent advice, thanks!
Pretty new to blogging and your site has been a real help. I already subscribed. As to this post though... how do I enter a sitemap if I chose to host my blogger account on my own domain? Would it work the same except substitute my domain in http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/robots.txt ???
thanks for you tips!
Alex,
After redirecting your blog that link will also be redirected.
Thanks all that critical information. I've been trying to have my sitemap uploaded to Google for the last two weeks but never been successfull. Just tried the procedure described in the above post. I hope it will work.
Thanks,
Mike
Great post, thanks! I was wondering how to upload a sitemap, and had assumed I couldn't do it with blogspot since you can't actually upload your own files. I just now added my sitemap using the instructions in your post; hopefully Google will read it properly in a little while.
Thank you for posting this about the sitemap! I have been having so much trouble trying to figure this out and this saved me alot of headache. Have a great day!
Kellie
I just very recently started blogging and am very underqualified as a blogger.. this site is incredible. It has a lot of info and well organized.
Excellent work! It should really help a lot of first time bloggers like myself quickly grasp the concepts and how to functions. thanks!
Excellent article.i'll keep coming back here.you have got a lot worth reading.
hi Vin,
I added my posts to google using the atom feeds and just started receiving searches. However, they're all going to the main page instead of the individual post - only a few searches went to the individual posts. Any thoughts?
http://cheapdanny.blogpost.com
Thanks!
Cheapdanny,
Check in Google Webmaster Tools how many pages have been indexed. Optimize blog for Search Engines.
Isn;t atom.xml only for old blogger .Does it works for new blogger?
Bloganol,
It works. Test it out : Go to :
http://tipsforbloggers.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Thanks for the great tip- been searching, and searching, and searching. This site is awesome.
wow... finally, a real solution to my problem! i wonder why all the others couldn't give this answer. i followed your instructions and voila, i got the sitemap added successfully in the webmaster tools. thank you so much..
wow, finally a solution to my problem! i wonder why all the others couldn't give this answer. i followed your instructions and voila, i've successfully added my sitemap on the webmaster tool. thank you so much
I have just come across your site and am amazed at the number of tips etc! You provide an excellent service and I have already added a link on my blog to you.
Keep up the great work and all the best, wishing you every success. You deserve it!
Thanks so much! You are a lifesaver.
Hi,
I have directed my blog from tarunreflex.blogspot.com to www.tarunreflex.co.cc
Will the sitemap for this new URL be found at the same http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/robots.txt?
One more thing,Is there anyway that i can configure my blog to ping Google as soon as it is updated automatically?
Tarun.reflex,
Your sitemap is now at :
http://www.tarunreflex.co.cc/robots.txt
To ping google automatically in Settings---->Basic enable 'Let search engines find my blog' and save.
thanks for the post. Until now i have been using only my feed as the site map in google webmasters.
The information was really helpful.
I have a feedburner account.But I was typing only atom.xml in the sitemap area.And everytime it was showing error. But now its OK.
Thnx
I never thought to add my blog sitemap to google. I didn't know to how to do that. Thanks to your information just now I did that. Again and again thank you very much.
thank you so much for this post... have found some relief after searching for the solution for hours... now hope this re indexes all my pages in google.
My blog on blogger has over 200 posts and when i install it in my template for the sitemap i keep getting an error message, and have tried doing it several other ways but keep getting errors, maybe you would have the exact code to put in place. Thanks!
Message Error: Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The reference to entity "start-index" must end with the ';' delimiter.
Daryl Saari ,
This error message is received when you are trying to load a Classic template. Are you trying to do that?
hey thanks alot! =)
Hm. Thank you but this does not work for me.
I have included normal sitemap and one according to your directions, but google webmaster says there are 33 pages restricted by robots and 4 not found. Here is my blog. Any advice would be appreciated.
www.pcterritory.net
Thomas,
All blogspot blogs have the label pages restricted by robots.txt file (which cannot be removed) since they are considered as duplicate content. That is normal.
Danke! Vin
Your tips have always been very helpful.
Thank you!
Brill - did the job - thanks.
Lochnload
The tips were very helpful. I was able to successfully add the sitemap of my blog to Google's webmaster tools using the instructions. Thanks for sharing this.
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