Submitting sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools will help your site bettter and faster indexed rather than waiting for the googlebot to crawl your site. If you are using blogger you can use your blog's atom.xml feed as sitemap. I believe you do know about this Google Webmaster Tools, this tool enables Webmasters to provide a better and detailed information of their site to Google. This will greatly help you in your SEO needs. Webmaster Tools allows you to submit your blog's sitemap so that Google gets a better idea of your blogs structure. Well, if you don't know yet, just login to Google Webmaster Tools with your blogger account, add your site and verify your ownership.
Once your site verified you can play around with many kinds of tools there, including submitting sitemap. Generally Wordpress and other blogging platforms have some sitemap generator plugins that creates sitemap in xml or xml.gz which we have a full control of it, but unfortunatelly not for blogger. But don't worry we can use our blog's atom.xml feed as our sitemap, and here is how to do it:
From the Dashboard of your Google Webmasters Tools, see the left pane and click on Site Configuration then click Sitemap. There you'll see "Submit Sitemap" button with your blog url, click on it and add the following code:
Updated: Recently blogger support sitemap.xml file rather than the old atom.xml. So it's now easier to submit sitemap without adding any other parameters like the old way. All you have to do is to add "sitemap.xml" to the end of your blog address as example below:
If you have more than 100 posts, then add additional sitemap url with the following code:
Continue this step depending on number of posts of your blog, this means you need to add another sitemap for every 100 posts. Just pay attention to the marked red color code for further changes. Your submitted blog's sitemap will help Google to get a better idea of your blogs structure. Just check your sitemap regurarly or try to resubmit your sitemap for every updated contents if necessary. Well, Google gets pleased with your sitemap, and so your visitors must get pleased to. We can also use atom.xml feed as a visible sitemap in table of contents. Read also how to create table of contents from blogger feeds.
Once your site verified you can play around with many kinds of tools there, including submitting sitemap. Generally Wordpress and other blogging platforms have some sitemap generator plugins that creates sitemap in xml or xml.gz which we have a full control of it, but unfortunatelly not for blogger. But don't worry we can use our blog's atom.xml feed as our sitemap, and here is how to do it:
From the Dashboard of your Google Webmasters Tools, see the left pane and click on Site Configuration then click Sitemap. There you'll see "Submit Sitemap" button with your blog url, click on it and add the following code:
Updated: Recently blogger support sitemap.xml file rather than the old atom.xml. So it's now easier to submit sitemap without adding any other parameters like the old way. All you have to do is to add "sitemap.xml" to the end of your blog address as example below:
http://myblog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xmlThe rest is no longer necessary.
http://myblog.googleblog.com/sitemap.xml
or if using custom domain
http://myblog.com/sitemap.xml
atom.xml?redirect=false&max-results=100It should look like the screenshot below, and don't forget to click the submit sitemap button.
If you have more than 100 posts, then add additional sitemap url with the following code:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100And for blog more than 200 posts, add another sitemap with this code:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100
Continue this step depending on number of posts of your blog, this means you need to add another sitemap for every 100 posts. Just pay attention to the marked red color code for further changes. Your submitted blog's sitemap will help Google to get a better idea of your blogs structure. Just check your sitemap regurarly or try to resubmit your sitemap for every updated contents if necessary. Well, Google gets pleased with your sitemap, and so your visitors must get pleased to. We can also use atom.xml feed as a visible sitemap in table of contents. Read also how to create table of contents from blogger feeds.