How to add your blogger sitemap to google webmasters tools

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Submitting the Sitemaps of your blog to Google Webmaster helps the search engine(Google) to crawl your webpages easily and more quickly! This post explains the procedure to add your blogger blog's sitemap to the Google Webmaster Tools.

1. You Sign In with your google account, and go to Google Webmaster Tools.
2. Click Add Site and write your URL there, then Continue.
   
   
   
   
3. Verify your blogger blog's by adding Meta Tag to your Blog (There is 2 ways, with add an html file to your host and add meta tag, for blogger add meta tag is possible).
4. Copy the Meta Tag code given by Google Webmaster.
5. Now go to Blogger Dashboard - Layout- Edit HTML - then search(Ctrl+F) for the code given below   <b:include data="blog" name="all-head-content"/> 
6. Paste the Meta Tag just after the about code and save the template.
7. Then Click Verify in the google webmasters.
8. Next step is to add your sitemap to google webmaster tools. Select sitemap in the left sidebar.
   
   
   
   
   
   
9. Then you can add this URl of your sitemap with this : http://www.YourBlog.com/atom.xml?redirect=false or http://www.YourBlog.com/feeds/posts/default?=rss (just add the bold text).
   
   
   
   
   
10. Finished! Your Blog's sitemap will be added to Google now!