How to submit blogspot sitemap to Google

Blogspot blogger has a great limitation of submitting sitemap to Google webmaster tools,only top few posts are indexed.Its a great drawbacks and this problem has a simple solution.

Google crawler may miss one of your page or may ignore it,to avoid this submitting sitemap to Google is only option.

Sitemap -Some discussion

What is sitemap?

Sitemap is very important for web development.It is a map of your website links provided by you to Google crawler,to crawl your all pages such that no page is missed.

When you badly need sitemap-

if your pages are not well linked

According to Google ,its crawler crawls through the webpages of a Blog or Website by following the internal links.

If a page is not linked from other front pages then it may be missed from indexing.It may be some time hard or impossible to provide link to all pages[though you should do it].

The oly remedy of this to provide a sitemap that is a list of categorized urls of your pages.

if your webpage has rich content-Ajax,video,Image

Rich or dynamic content pages are not easily recoverable by Google crawler.

How to create sitemap-

Its easy to create sitemap.There are lots of sitemap generator on the web.

Also you can easily create a sitemap by yourself by following some instructions.

Instruction to create sitemap

View the instructions of creating a sitemap

How to use sitemap-

After you have created a sitemap then

1. Login to Google webmaster tools
2. Add your website and verify.
3. Simply paste the sitemap link.
   
   • You will have to upload the sitemap to your own root web directory and paste the link to Google webmaster tools.Sitemap can not be hosted in other place [until now]

Sitemap-problem with Blogspot blogger

Above you can see that sitemap should be uploaded to and hosted to own web directory.No third party hosting will not work.

Blogspot blogger-does not support upload to root directory

Yes until now , Blogspot blogger does not support upload any files-javascript,Ajax,notepad,xml to root directory.

No bloggers has access to the server.
Thus though you can make a good sitemap , you can not use it while you are blogging with blogspot.

Sitemap-Solution with Blogspot blogger

Feeds works as sitemap-Defaults

By default Blogspot feeds works as sitemap.

So you don't need to do anything , crawler will automatically except your feeds as sitemap.

Feeds works as sitemap-Great problem and limitation

If you provide your feeds as a sitemap then only top most post will be indexed.I am not sure about the number , as it varies by Google.

But recently it was 26. That is if your blog has 50 post , only top / recent 26 post will be included in sitemap.

Think about if you grow up and post number increases to 500 , 474 of your old post will be unknown by google crawler.thats disgusting.

I think Google is working to solve this , but we got a simple but effective solution below.

Solution to Blogspot Sitemap problem

A simple but effective hack

All you need to paste the simple code below in

Google Webmaster tools > Submit sitemap

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

Blogspot sitemap submit to Goolge-

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What is this code?

This code is nothing but the feeds of your blog.

But in this case its not the default[top few posts].In this case the number of posts in the feeds is controlled by you.

if you have 400 posts , then by putting this code all posts is included in the sitemap.

If I got 600 post?

if your post exceeds more than 500 posts then no problem , submit another sitemap like below.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=1000