How to Find & Submit Sitemap of Blog to Google

If you have already added your site to Google then next step is to submit sitemap of your site/blog to Google. Read my earlier post How To Add URL To Crawl Google Bot. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps Google to know the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling process. Sitemap helps google bot to crawl all the pages of your site and find out the any crawl errors and link broken.With the help of sitemap Google bot can produce good analytical data of your site. So always submit complete sitemap of your website or blog.You can also create sitemap of specialize web contents like video, mobile, news, code search etc.

You can get your site/blog indexed in google search by some other ways also like submitting your site to blog directory, Feed directory etc which are already indexed by the search engine.It will automatically follow the links to crawl sites that are linked there.But by submitting your sitemap directly to google is always good.You have control over that.How To Submit blogs to Yahoo, Alexa, MSN.

How to Find and Submit sitemap of your Blog: Now next thing is to find   sitemap of your blog and how to submit sitemaps to Google.If you are using Blogger then take the help of Blogger to find out the sitemap of your blog. The Atom feed produced by Blogger can be used as a sitemap.

For many web sites, the robots.txt file may contain the location of a sitemap for their site. Usually, a webmaster would need to create the entry into the robots.txt file for it to be included.For Bloggers, this is done automatically for you.

To find the location of your sitemap, use the following steps:

1.Open up your web browser, and type your Blogger blog’s URL.

2.At the end of the URL add robots.txt.

For example, if the URL of your blog is http://yourblog.blogspot.com/,

then type http://yourblog.blogspot.com/robots.txt

3.Some text should now be displayed in your browser. Look for a line that starts with Sitemap:. The URL after that label is the location of your sitemap.

Using the example above, the line would look like:Sitemap: http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

4.After getting sitemap now go back to Google’s Webmaster Tools, open the Dashboard, go to your blog and click "submit sitemap" button and submit sitemap the domain name part of the URL would already be included, so you would just need to specify the feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated portion of the sitemap URL. If other sites are able to accept a sitemap, then you may need to include the entire URL.

It is assumed that you have already added and verified your blog with Webmaster either with meta tag or verification file.If you have not done then do it first with How To Add URL To Crawl Google Bot.

If in the future you are having problems with your sitemap, you can always pull up the robots.txt file to make sure your sitemap file hasn’t changed.

How to verify Sitemap:If You find a green tick then your sitemap submission is successful and if you see red cross or an orange symbol then some thing gone wrong with your sitemap. Check for the error and re-submit sitemap. You can verify  sitemap by typing in your browser.

How to Generate Complete Sitemap of Your Blog/Site: If you generate the sitemap of your blog at blogger then you will be surprised to know that default sitemap does not contain all the pages of your blog. If you submit system generated sitemap,You can notice some of your blog pages are missing and probably those will never be indexed by google. That is very embarrassing for blogger.
Here is the simple fix of this problem by Amit's Site-map generation tool,where you can generate sitemap of up to 1500 pages. Go to the link given below and follow the steps to get the complete sitemap of your site or blog. After getting site map, submit it to the Google by following the step4 given above.

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