Create a Sitemap for Blogger or Blogspot - HOWTO?

We can add sitemap to our blog by visiting Google Sitemap. This will let google bot crawl our blog and index it. So the information gathering process will be easier. Hence, making our blog more popular => higher PRs in the long run.

First of all, we need to goto Google Sitemap, Register with our Google account. For those of you who have no google account. It is recommended to sing up one at Gmail. When you have an account with google, you can insert your URL in the provided box and click Add Site or OK button.


Now, the blog will be in our list of the Account Webmaster Tool. We need to click at Verify your site link.


Goto the Choose verification method... dropdown list box and select Add a meta tag and copy meta tag

It is just easy. You can drag your mouse over the url tag as see in the picture below. Then you can right-click your mouse button and select copy.

You can then paste the url tag into your home page in the first section of the page, before the first section. Or for your blog, you can follow the instruction below.

Adding Sitemap (by Google) to your blog
1. Open your registered blogger account and select the tab Layout or Template. and select sub-tab Edit HTML. We will place to copied meta tag between the tag (head) (/head) and before the tag (title). When finished, Click Save Template button.

2. Go back to the Google Webmaster Tool page, Click Verify button under the message "I've added the meta tag in the home page of http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/."

It will show you a confirmation message. It will help google better crawl and index your web.
3. Look for the Menu bar on the Left. Select Sitemaps => Add Sitemap. In the Add Sitemap page, click at a dropdown listbox and select Add General Web Sitemap. In the number 3 below, type atom.xml in the box provided (after your blog url). Then click Add Genera Web Sitemap button.


That's it!

For further questions, please comments!

PS. What is atom.xml?
Atom is an XML to send data to update the web page for content management. We can download from the website or from feeder program to see it in text format.
The blogger program comes with atom.xml (see the bottom of your blog, it said subscribe to: Posts (Atom)). So we can just use what blogger has to create the sitemap.

For thai version of this topic, please visit http://siamblogspot.blogspot.com/