Undeniably, every blogger want to get a high traffic of their site. So many try to do every possible way to get a chance to attract more viewers to their blog or website.
One of the effective way to do this is to index your site to Google by submitting a sitemap of your indexed website pages. Submitting a sitemap to Google Webmaster will help expose your site which leads to being shown in search results.
The process is quite easy. All you need to do is create - test - and submit.
So, let's go directly to the point and start to expose our site.
CREATE SITEMAP
- Open a Sitemap Generator and enter the complete url address of your blogspot site.
example:
- Click Create Sitemap button to generate your sitemap text file.
- Go to your Blogger dashboard (consider to login first to your Blogger account to open your blogger dashboard), click Settings > Search Preferences >> Crawling and Indexing >>> Edit Custom robots.txt. Paste the sitemap text file you copied earlier into the text box and click Save changes to update robots.txt of your blog.
TEST SITEMAP
- To test your sitemap, go to your Google Master Account and under Crawl > select Sitemaps.
- Click ADD/TEST SITEMAP button found on the right side of the page and enter the complete url of your sitemap generated earlier.To know your complete sitemap url, go to your Blogger dashboard (consider to login first to your Blogger account to open your blogger dashboard), click Settings > Search Preferences >> Crawling and Indexing >>> Edit Custom robots.txt. Copy the last line of the robots.txt file content.
- Go back to your Google Webmaster account, paste your sitemap url. Click Test Sitemap and click View Test.
- You should see result like this.
SUBMIT SITEMAP
- To submit your sitemap, go to your Google Master Account and under Crawl > select Sitemaps.
- Click ADD/TEST SITEMAP button found on the right side of the page and enter the complete url of your sitemap generated earlier.To know your complete sitemap url, go to your Blogger dashboard (consider to login first to your Blogger account to open your blogger dashboard), click Settings > Search Preferences >> Crawling and Indexing >>> Edit Custom robots.txt. Copy the last line of the robots.txt file content.
- Go back to your Google Webmaster account, paste your sitemap url. Click Submit Sitemap.
- You should see result like this.
Congratulation!. You have created your own blog sitemap.
