•  14/04/2010

How to create a sitemap for Blogspot hosted blog

Do you run a Blogspot hosted blog? Do you want to submit your sitemap to Yahoo Bing and Google search for faster indexing?

Well this is very easy. You can do it in just few steps without using any external special application.

Yesterday Lucifer asked this question via comment so I am writing about it.

Step *1

Login to Google Webmaster Tool with your Gmail or other account. Add your Blogger site URL and choose Meta Tag as your ownership verification method.

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Copy the complete Tag.

Step *2

Login to your Blogspot dashboard and Click on Template option. Now select the Edit HTML tab and paste the Meta tag code inside the HEAD HTML tag.

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Step *3

Now go back to Webmaster tools and click on Verify button. It will be verified. Congrats :) . Now under Site Configuration you will see a Sitemap option. Just add your Blogspot sitemap URL and click submit.

But wait where is the URL? Its easy. Suppose your site is webdisc.blogspot.com so the URL will be webdisc.blogspot.com/atom.xml. This is the XML RSS feed address.

Similarly for other blogs too.

So isn’t easy?

Now How to create and submit sitemap for Custom Domain

Suppose you are using Custom Domain for your Blogspot then How to get a XML address. Well that’s easy too.

1) Let say your URL is myowncustomdomain..info so the Sitemap address will be myowncustomdomain.info/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

2) So you need to add /feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated at the end of the URL.

3) Submit the above address to the Webmaster  tools.

Similarly you can submit it to Bing and Yahoo site explorer.

It will tell the search engines about your new posts and webpage structure with faster crawling rate.

Till then Keep posting good articles !

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12 Responses to “How to create a sitemap for Blogspot hosted blog”

  1. Lucifer says:

    Hey Great You Created A Post Specially For Me But When i Tried to Submit The Sitemap in Google Webmaster it Showed the Error in Status Tab And It Was Written That “This Url is Not Allowed For Sitemap At This Location” :(

  2. abhi says:

    Lucifer I tested for my blog and it is working fine. Make sure you use same email ID for both Webmaster tool and blogspot.

    Here is the SS http://i44.tinypic.com/rw782a.gif

    So try it again and tell me.

  3. abhi says:

    Luifer Are you using custom domain? If yes then read above for proper steps.
    It will work. Try now.

  4. Lucifer says:

    @abhi Yes now its Working :)

  5. Abhi says:

    You didn’t tell me that you are using customized name. Anyway that’s great to see. Now we deserve a coffee.

  6. Lucifer says:

    Hmmm Yup You Deserve a coffee :P

  7. Abhi says:

    Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Thanks.

  8. I use WP…..Nice one for Blogger users! Really you deserve a coffee :-)

  9. Shekhar Sahu says:

    If your site is verified then automatically it uses rss feeds as sitemap.

  10. fun blog says:

    Submitting your blog to search engine confirms more traffic to your site.
    Now even Bing has launched its new Bing webmaster tools.

  11. Ozzy says:

    I am going to build one right now. I am glad I found your site.

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