Add A Google Sitemap to Blogger Blog - Guide
Here is a guide to adding a Google Sitemap to your Blogger.com blog. Submitting a sitemap to Google can increase your chances of having your site indexed by the search engine.
Below is a step by step guide to submitting your blog's sitemap to Google:
Step 1.
Sign-in to your Google account by clicking in the top right of the Google search pages. You may need to sign-in first if you don't see the 'My Account' text link. Once you are logged in click on WEBMASTER TOOLS (click here for the direct link)
Step 2.
Paste the URL of your blog into the 'ADD SITE' area of the dashboard page. For example http://ukdropshipper.blogspot.com. Click on the 'add site' button.
Step 3.
You will now be taken to thesite overview page. This page will show you the status of your sitemap/s, details of the last site crawl and inform you whether pages from the site are included in the Google index.
Step 4.
You need to verify ownership of the site you're submitting. I find the easiest way to do this is to add some code to your area of the site. To verify ownership click on VERIFY YOUR SITE and select ADD A META TAG from the drop down box. Google will then provide you with some code to add to your site.
Step 5.
In a separate window or tab login to your blogger account, select LAYOUT and choose EDIT HTML. Copy and past the HTML meta tag provided by Google in the previous step into the HTML template just after the first TAG. Save your template edits. Return back to the original window/tab and click VERIFY.
Step 6.
You are now able to add a sitemap. Luckily Blogger supplies a ready made site map in the form of it's ATOM feed. Visit your blog and copy the URL of the atom feed (i.e. www.ukdropshipper.com/feeds/posts/full). Hint: Click on a 'subscribe to feed' link to find out your URL.
Step 6.
Slect to add a sitemap from within the Google Wemaster Tools Dashboard (the original window/tab) and choose "add general web sitemap". Paste the URL from step 5 into the area provided and click "ADD GENERAL SITEMAP" button.
You have now successfully added a Google Sitemap. In time you will be able to view various statitics through the SITEMAPS page including the date your site was last crawled, crawl stats, top search queries and diagnose any crawl errors.
