Sitemap is simply a list of links (pages) which belong to your website. There is no doubt about its SEO importance for website owners because it helps Google spiders to crawl your entire website so you will get your web pages Google indexed. Its importance rises up along with the depth of your website. I have read on one forum that Google spiders generally crawl your web into 2-3rd web page level and sitemap helps them to find also pages which can be much deeper.
But what about blogs? Despite there are some controversies about SEO importance of blog sitemap I think it may help to get indexed by Google. Especially when you have many articles sitemap can point Google spiders to crawl them all. Unfortunately bloggers are not able to create the classic kind of sitemap. The only way is to create Google sitemap. In this article I will write short guide how to create blog sitemap.
1. First of all you will need to create account at Google Webmaster Tools and verify your blog.
2. The process is simple. After you registered at Google Webmaster Tools, log in to your account. And add your blog (see Picture 1).
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3. Next you will have to verify your ownership of the blog. Click on “Verify this site” (Picture 2).
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4. On the next page you will be able to choose what kind of verification you want to pass. Choose Meta tag option (Picture 3).
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5. Now you will have to add the Meta tag code (you can see the Meta tag location in the Picture 3) into the Head section of your blog. Log in to you your blogspot account. Select Layout and choose Edit HTML. Use Ctlr+F to find the head section, now place the Meta tag right after this section (see Pic 4). Save your template.
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6. Return to Google Webmaster Tools and click on “Verify”. Now we are ready to create sitemap for the blog.
7. You will be taken to the dashboard of Webmaster Tools. Click “Submit a Sitemap” (Pic 5).
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8. On the next page click on “Submit your sitemap”. Add your blog feed URL which looks like this
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
(replace the red part of URL for your blog address) and click Submit. That is all, now wait some time to get crawled by Google spiders.
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