How To Add A XML Sitemap Of Your Blog To Webmaster Tools
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A XML sitemap enables the search engine bot to find all the posts/pages of the blog and index it quickly and efficiently. In the absence of a XML sitemap one is bound to lose the opportunity of his/her contents being properly indexed and find a place in the search engine.
A sitemap supplies valuable information to the Google search engine about the contents of a website and the relevancy of all its pages. Metadata contains information about a specific webpage and any search engine needs this data for proper indexing.
So, it may be well said that a regular updated sitemap is absolutely essential to get regular traffic from the search engines.
Write your own XML sitemap
Writing your own sitemap is easy. If you add 'sitemap.xml' at the end of the blog homepage URL it becomes your XML sitemap. For example, the sitemap of my website is 'https://earningwizard.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml'. Similarly, XML sitemap of all the pages will be 'http://blog-for-money.com/sitemap-pages.xml'.
How To Add A Property To Webmaster Tools
Before submitting a sitemap you must add your blog/website(Property) to the Webmaster Tools.
#1) Sign in the Webmaster Tools with your Google ID and PW
#2) Click ADD A PROPERTY at the top right corner
#3) In the small box that opens write the url of your blog/website beginning with 'https://www.' and click 'Add'
#4) Now in the next page select 'HTML tag'
#5) Now a code as shown below appears :
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="f8Sr-dwMm7GLKxI1bgnGqMT-BXo5M9VM5JP4R156JXk" />
#6) Now go to the blogger and click 'Template' against the blog which you are adding. Click 'Edit HTML' The page that opens find <head> tag therein. Now just copy the 'specific code' from the Google Webmaster Tools page and paste it under the <head> tag of your blog.
#7) Click 'Save Template' at the top
#8) Now coming back to the Webmaster Tools page click 'VERIFY' at the bottom and it's done.
How To Add A XML Sitemap
#1) Sign in here to Google Webmaster Tools
#2) Click 'ADD/TEST SITEMAP' at the top right
#3) Now the small box that opens just write 'sitemap.xml' as shown above
#4) Click submit and then click 'refresh the page' and you are done.
Sitemap For More Than 25 Posts
Remember the above mentioned 'sitemap' mention under 'Write Your Own XML Sitemap' will tell the web crawler about recent 25 posts. If your number of posts crosses 25 then your sitemap should look like this : http://example.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 . This sitemap will work for first 500 posts.
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