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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Create and submit Sitemap for a blogspot blog

Sitemap of any website helps web crawlers or robots like Google bot to identify each page on the website and your pages start appearing on Google Search faster than ever.

In order to create a sitemap for your blogspot blog, use following URL -

http://<yourblog>.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

In order to submit your sitemap to Google Webmaster tool -

1.) Open the webmaster tool dashboard.

2.) On the dashboard, you will see a list of sites submitted by you on Google Webmaster Tool.

3.) Click "View Details" link in-front of any of your sites for which you would like to add sitemap.

4.) On the next page, you will see a button called "submit a sitemap". Click this button, which opens a new page where you will see a button called "Add/test sitemap" on the right hand side corner. Click this button.

5.) It opens a pop-up with a text field. You can enter following text in that text field.

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

6.) Click "Submit Sitemap" button.

Now your sitemap has been created & submitted to Google Webmaster tools.

Friday, April 17, 2015

Add your blogspot URL in Google Webmaster tool using HTML Meta Tag

Pre-requisites: You need your own Google Account which will be used to access Google Webmaster tools or services.

Step# 1: Go to Google Webmaster tool using following URL and login with your Google Account.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en

Step# 2: Click on "Add a Site" button on the right hand corner.

Step# 3: Give the URL of your blogspot blog in popup that comes up after clicking "Add a Site" button.

Step# 4: Google Webmaster tool will ask to verify that given BLOG is owned by you. There are many ways to verify this, but lets see how to verify this using HTML Meta Tag.

On the “Alternate Methods” tab, choose the option “HTML Tag”. It will provide you a <meta> tag after you choose this option using a radio button.

Copy that tag and keep it.

Step# 5: Go to www.blogger.com and open your blog which you need to add & verify in Google Webmaster tool.

Step# 6: In the left hand side navigation options, you will see “Templates”. Click that option.

It has a button “Edit HTML”. Click that button to put that META tag in your HTML.

Step# 7: Add your meta tag provided by Google under the <head> Tag in HTML. Then click the Orange button that says “Save Template”.

Step# 8: Now go back to Google Webmaster tool and click the button “Verify”. This will give you a confirmation message that says that "you have successfully verified your ownership".

We are done. Your site is added in Google Webmaster Tool. It should now come in search results in fewer days than expected.

Hope this helps.