Tuesday, February 19, 2013

How to Add Sitemap to Blogger

Hello Tech4news Readers !!
Sitemap for your Blogger Blog is very Important. This has many benefits, like easier navigation and better visibility by search engines and it gives the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your blog plus targeted traffic to your blog.

Limitations with Default Blogger Sitemap :-

Your Blogger Sitemap must consists of all your cool blog posts, but that's not the case with default Blogger Sitemap.

Default XML sitemap of any Blogger blog will have only 26 most recent blog posts. This is the limitation as some of your older blog posts will be missing in the default XML sitemap, which may never get indexed in search engines.


However there is Simple Fix for this problem 

Follow these Steps to Add Sitemap to Blogger Blog :-


Go To Blogger >> Select Settings >> Search Preferences >> Enable -Custom robots.txt >> Select Yes >> And Paste the following code inside it 


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User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
 
Sitemap: http://tech-4-news.blogspot.in/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://tech-4-news.blogspot.in/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://tech-4-news.blogspot.in/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://tech-4-news.blogspot.in/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500


Now Replace http://tech-4-news.blogspot.in with your blog's URL



Preview of Sitemap 

 

This Blogger Trick is valid for regular Blogger blogs (that use a .blogspot.com) and also for custom blogger domains (like custombloggerdomain.com), that are hosted on Blogger.


To Check, if Sitemap is Working or Not :-


Add /robots.txt after your blog url (example:- http://www.ebloggertips.com/robots.txt)


And you are Done ! Search engines will automatically discover your XML sitemap via the robots.txt file.


Still you get in Trouble ! Just comment Below we will fix your problems :)