Add Blogger Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools

6/03 03:46:00 PM Tuesday, June 3

I hope you do know about Google Web Master 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.

UPDATE : This post is now outdated as Blogger has now rolled out new XML Sitemaps. Please refer our latest tutorial on XML Sitemap for Blogger for details on adding sitemap to Google Webmaster tools.

Blogger’s robots.txt file automatically specifies a sitemap URL[The blog feed], but it would be even better if you manually add the sitemap URLs to GWT.

Wordpress and other blogging platforms have some Sitemap generator plugins for the same.If you are using blogger you can use your blog's atom.xml feed as your sitemap.

Note:- If you have disabled Blog Feeds then enable it by going to Settings > Site Feed and change Allow Blog Feeds to Short or Full. (Don't set it to None)

1. Login to Google Web Master Tools with your Blogger account.

2. See if your Blog is already listed there, if it is listed and verified then click on the blog name and proceed to Step 5

3.If its not listed, Click on the Add a site button and provide your blog URL there and hit continue.

add-blogger-blog-to-webmaster-tools

4.It will now ask you to verify your Blog using any of the two methods. You can use any of those. The File upload method would be simpler.

  a. File Upload Method - Change the Verification method to Upload an HTML File. Ignore the file download and upload instructions provided there. Google will automatically download and upload that file for you. So just ignore the instructions and hit the Verify button. Your blog should get verified now. If it doesn’t then opt for the  second method (b)

  b. Meta Tag Verification method. Google will provide you a Meta Tag code which looks like

<meta name="google-site-verification" content="verificationkey" />

Copy this Code,  login to your Blogger Dashboard navigate to Layout >Edit HTML and place this code somewhere above </head> Save the template, come back to GWT and hit the verify button.

5. Once your blog is verified you can  add  sitemaps for your blog[From the Left Pane > Site Configuration > Sitemap]. In the sitemap URL give the following URL as shown in this screenshot and click the Submit Sitemap button

atom.xml?redirect=false&max-results=500 
 add-blogger-sitemap
If you have more than 500 posts on your blog, then add an additional sitemap URL

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

If your blog has more than 1000 posts, then add one more sitemap URL

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

If it has more than 1500 posts, then add one more sitemap

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500

Continue this process depending upon the number of posts on your blog. So this means that you will be adding additional sitemaps for every 500 posts.

Once you have added the Sitemap, you can play around with the different other tools in GWT. It will provide you with a better analysis your site, show you the sites linking to you, help you in managing your site links and much more.

47 comments :

  1. MycoolestgiftsJuly 28 at 10:15 AM

    Thanks for this page. I was struggling with rss.xml and atom.xml but your suggested option has worked out. thanks

    Tim

  2. DeVAugust 5 at 8:37 AM

    my site
    displays only 26 urls when submitted to sitemap

  3. AnonymousAugust 16 at 5:12 PM

    Hi,
    I am using
    to submit my URLs in several search engines and directories all for free.

  4. UnknownSeptember 20 at 4:06 AM

    Thanks for the amazing post.I had been struggling with the sitemaps for quite sometime.everytime i submitted an atom.xml it was getting rejected.I guess this was the cause since my feeds are on feedburner.You have posted some amazing blogging tips on your site.
    Kudos to You!!

  5. AnonymousSeptember 25 at 1:47 PM

    i added both rss.xml?redirect=false&max-results=100 and atom.xml?redirect=false&max-results=100 suffixes.

    yet.. only 2/3 of posts got indexed. any tricks or hack on getting all indexed?

  6. Call4EnglishMarch 18 at 8:30 PM

    Thx very much, helped me to sort it out quickly.

  7. putri-kecilApril 21 at 8:20 PM

    thank...i will try it.

  8. Doug LevittMay 1 at 10:06 PM

    Is there a reason why my blog entries show up on google, but not on yahoo when doing a site: search.

    E.g.

    When I search for site:douglevitt on google, I get results. However, when I search for site:douglevitt on yahoo, I get NO results?

    Thanks.

  9. vinothJuly 18 at 8:33 PM

    thank for this tip..blogger blogs can submit this directly from blogger dashboard itself...
    I have submitted..

  10. Shubham (NeO)July 19 at 9:51 AM

    Loved your post. Have a query : If we don't specify the max result parameter, would it something wrong.

  11. UnknownJuly 19 at 11:56 AM

    @Shubham,
    its better to use the max-results thing because blogger doesn't display all the posts in feeds by default..

    so you will have to add

    etc..
    this is the best way of doing it.. ;)

  12. rahulSeptember 26 at 8:06 PM

    Nice help

  13. Janardhan RajuNovember 28 at 3:04 PM

    Hi aneesh

    I tried it but when i put max-results=100 it is not showing anything.......
    If i delete max-results=100 then it is showing only 5...

    Why?
    Any Help........

    My blog is verify there it is showing only 5

  14. warrioRRDecember 14 at 12:44 PM

    Thanks for nice information
    thanks again

  15. GinaJanuary 23 at 11:31 PM

    Hi Aneesh, I was under the impression that blogger generates a sitemap for you already. Is this post still applicable now? Just not sure if I need to submit or if it would end up being redundant....

    Btw, love the site, you're incredibly knowledgeable and your instructions are always concise and easy to follow. Thank you.

  16. UnknownFebruary 22 at 2:33 PM

    @Gina - yea it was an old post :) updated it now.. Blogger specifies a sitemap in the Robots.txt file but its better to add sitemaps by your own. It will also help you to track the number of urls indexed on Google.

  17. love2spoogeFebruary 22 at 6:02 PM

    I added this sitemap to all my blogs but it says:

    Sitemap is HTML
    Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.

  18. UnknownFebruary 22 at 7:52 PM

    @love2spooge - Atom feeds are one type of Sitemap formats that are allowed by GWT. If it shows such an eror to you, then it means that you have disabled your Blog Feeds. Enable Blog feeds by going to Settings > Site Feed and Change Allow Blog Feeds to Short or Full. Now resubmit the sitemap at GWT

  19. IvanFebruary 28 at 9:07 PM

    My feed is enabled, but my feed is redirected to Feed Burner.

    Is that problem?

  20. UnknownFebruary 28 at 10:28 PM

    @love2spooge - nope, that wont be a problem. the redirect=false is intentionally added to prevent that redirection in the sitemap:)

  21. BagoennkApril 18 at 7:53 PM

    thanks

  22. UnknownApril 25 at 8:45 PM

    Ive used this line to add 100% of my Posts in Sitemap:

    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

  23. ShrinathMay 14 at 9:52 AM

    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=9999

    I think this is sufficient ;)
    isn't it?

  24. bloggerzbibleMay 16 at 7:52 PM

    Can you please tell how to submit site map to yahoo

  25. Upcycle Consumer BlogJuly 11 at 10:53 PM

    Very helpful for a newbie -- thanks much!

  26. jobvacanciesAugust 11 at 2:32 AM

    good,
    thank you for the information,
    This was helped,
    spirit! ! ! ! !

  27. Hannah CrumAugust 21 at 3:46 PM

    Very helpful! Great great blog!

  28. ornobAugust 28 at 1:06 PM

    dear Aneesh i am submit my sitemap but they are not index my URL.My URL status Show Errors.
    I submit:
    1.rss.xml?redirect=false
    2.atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
    3.atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
    4.feeds/posts/default
    5.atom.xml?redirect=false

    please solve me this problem...
    my blog

  29. Frederick GellaSeptember 23 at 7:49 AM

    Hi thanks for this great info. I have now set my blog to feedburner and set also in google webmaster. Since my blog is new, I think I have to wait for more few days for my urls to be indexed in goolge. Thank you.

  30. Frederick GellaSeptember 23 at 7:53 AM

    I have a problem with my sitemap when send it to google webmasters. The webmaster treated my sitemap as html not xml. What to do about this? my website's url

  31. rajatOctober 22 at 5:44 PM

    just started my blog have 26 posts and on using "atom.xml?redirect=flase&max-results=100" in sitemaps in status it shows a cross mark why so??? please help me out my blog

  32. AdminOctober 24 at 4:18 AM

    hi thanks for the post
    i have a custom domain pointing with dynadot what should i do to get Meta Tag Verification code ?

  33. AnonymousNovember 12 at 6:59 PM

    thank's for your tips, it's very useful

  34. AkinDecember 16 at 1:00 PM

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    Thank You,
    maythebesthandwin

  35. DLE TemplatesDecember 28 at 12:33 AM

    Thank You a lot.

  36. adilJanuary 24 at 6:57 AM

    Thanks alot.
    i was searching for this. i have added a site map. but i have more than 100 posts more posts were not being added. i was searching for this. all info i have got from your article. i have no words to thank you.
    Thanks :)

  37. AdilJanuary 24 at 7:00 AM

    Hi rajat.
    try this your problem will solve
    /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

  38. Geetha PFebruary 1 at 4:52 AM

    Great work, nice posts.

  39. COTOCOTIFebruary 12 at 8:30 PM

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  40. AnonymousFebruary 20 at 9:03 AM

    uso no beu blog assim:
    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100


    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=300


    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1101&max-results=1500


    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=1900


    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1901&max-results=2300


    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2301&max-results=2600


    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=301&max-results=700


    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=701&max-results=1100


    feeds/comments/default


    feeds/posts/default

  41. theodorajewelleryMarch 9 at 12:52 AM

    Worked perfectly!! Thanks!!!!

  42. UnknownApril 18 at 8:08 AM

    thank you so much! i've been looking for answers lately (but nothing happened).. and i tried to check out your site again. wow! your website is really awesome!

  43. George NicolaeMay 8 at 9:06 PM

    And If I have 2000 post how should I submit my sitemap?

  44. UnknownJune 27 at 5:11 PM

    work great. thank you very much. i was not able to find solution to this, checked many sites, you are kewl. check my site if you get time.

  45. Hatim;MurtazaNovember 11 at 11:47 AM

    admin i have already submitted my sityemap to google webmasters ......now my blog has above 100 posts ....so can i now submit the site map of 100 posts as u have explained above..

  46. கருந்தேள் கண்ணாயிரம்February 28 at 6:27 PM

    Point # 5 : atom.xml?redirect=flase&max-results=100 - here, the spelling of false is wrong. Hence, people who copy this link, change it, or else it will not work

    1. UnknownFebruary 29 at 9:03 AM

      thanks :) updated the post