Submitting sitemap to Blogger :
Sitemaps play a major role in SEO. Search engines use sitemaps to find the pages on your Blogger blog. By adding a Google sitemap to your Blogger blog, you don't need to ping your blog manually whenever you update it. Submitting your Blogger blog sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools is important, and submitting a sitemap to Blogger is also important. It helps search engines discover pages that the search engine bot may have missed.
How to Add a Google Sitemap to your Blogger Blog:
It is easy to add a Google sitemap to Blogger blogs. First, generate your blogger sitemap from trusted sitemap generator sites, or just replace 'yourblogname' with your Blogger blog URL in the code on step 4. We have already discussed how to add your blog sitemap to your Google Webmaster Tool. Now, in this post, we are going to discuss adding a Google sitemap to your Blogger blog.
Follow below steps to add a Google sitemap to your Blogger blog
Step 1 : Go to Blogger Dashboard
Step 2 : Click on Settings and Click on Search Preferences
Step 3 : Click on edit custom robots.txt under Crawlers and indexing
Step 4 : Paste below code in custom robots.txt box
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2001&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2501&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=3001&max-results=500
Step 5 : Click on Save changes.
Like this you can add Google sitemap to your Blogger.
Note : If your Blogger blog contains below 500 posts, then add only sitemap.: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500.
Step 2 : Click on Settings and Click on Search Preferences
Step 3 : Click on edit custom robots.txt under Crawlers and indexing
Step 4 : Paste below code in custom robots.txt box
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2001&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2501&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=3001&max-results=500
Step 5 : Click on Save changes.
Like this you can add Google sitemap to your Blogger.
Note : If your Blogger blog contains below 500 posts, then add only sitemap.: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500.
If your Blogger blog contains more than 500 and below 1000 posts, then add the following two lines of code and there is no need to add the remaining code.
Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
Like this, add Google sitemap to your Blogger blog properly.
is this posible: atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=1000 ?
ReplyDeleteCustom Robots.txt is very important part of a Blog. If you don't know its proper use, please don't use it. It might destroy your ranking in minutes. SO be careful.
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