How To Add Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools?

Sitemap is used to improve crawling towards our blogs, websites. Hence in this post we will learn to add blogger sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.

If you are a new blogger then you should be aware with the Google Webmaster Tools. This tool is provided by Google. It is useful for bloggers and webmasters to get their blog or website index by the Google and it also help to improve our blog’s crawling rate. For adding sitemap to that tool, we need to verify our blog ownership in Google Webmaster Tools. So first of all Google will verify our blog ownership then and only then we can submit a simple sitemap to that tool. Sitemap simply tells Google about your blog and content of blog hence it is very important to submit blogger sitemap to Google.

Add Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools

There are some simple and easy steps to add blogger sitemap to Google Webmaster tools. Just follows below steps.

Sign in to Google Webmaster Tools. http://www.google.com/webmasters/

It is possible that to have a more than one blog so please Click on the blog title for which you want to add sitemap.

Click on Sitemaps button.

At the top right corner of the page, you will get ADD/TEST SITEMAP button. Click on that button.

Once you click the button, a small box will appear.

Add following code in the text box.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Press “Submit Sitemap” button.

Refresh the page.

You have successfully added sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.

But in that code you will see start-index=1 and max-results=500 hence this code will work for only 500 posts. So what to do if posts are more than 500? Then you need to add one more sitemap and in that start-index=501

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

It is completely done.

Other than that we can also add sitemap page to our blog so that our readers can easily view all of our blog posts at the single location. For that please visit How to add a sitemap page in blogger.

Conclusion :

I hope that this article would have helped you in understanding steps of adding sitemap to Google Webmaster tools. Please share your knowledge if you know more about this attribute. Your feedback and constructive contributions are always welcome.