How To Create And Add Google Sitemap For Blogger Blogspot

Step 1 – Login to Google Webmaster Tools with your Google Account (Gmail)

Step 2 – Click ‘Add a site…’ button

Step 3 – Enter your blog’s URL address

Step 4 – Copy the ‘Meta Tag’ / ‘Meta Name’ code

Step 5 – Login to Blogger.com, go to ‘Layout’ –> ‘Edit Html’ and paste the Meta Tag / Meta Name code as shown in the image above

Step 6 – When you’re done, go back to Google Webmaster Tools and click the ‘Verify’ button.

Step 7 – Copy this code – atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Step 8 – Go to ‘Site Configuration’ –> ‘Sitemaps’ –> ‘Submit a Sitemap’. Paste atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 into the text box and click ‘submit’

Step 9 – You should be seeing something like the screenshot above in your Webmaster Tools account, depending on the number of articles you have.

If you have more than 500 articles, you will need to submit additional sitemap for the URL only index the first 500 articles. Example:

Article 1 to 500 – atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Article 501 to 1000 – atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
Article 1001 to 1500 – atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500
Article 1501 to 2000 – atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500
Article 2001 to 2500 – atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2001&max-results=500

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