Google sitemap

By adding a Google sitemap to your blog, you can more easily submit your site to the Google search engine spider. You get better coverage by the spider, than by simply submitting your blog to the Google search engine. You'll also get detailed statistics about how Google sends traffic your way, and how the Google spider sees your blog.


1. If you don't have a Google account yet, you'll need one. GMail is free, and Google Groups is a vital resource for problem research. Anytime there is a problem with your blog, you should be posting into Google - Blogger Help.

2. Sign in to your Google account.

3. You start from Google Webmaster Tools - Dashboard.

4. In the Click here to add a site box, enter the URL to your blog, and then hit Add Site. Make this entry identical to the URL to which the blog is published. Use the following examples, substituting appropriately your value for "myblog", "mydomain", "xxxxx", and "zzz".
* If the blog is published to "myblog.blogspot.com", enter it as "myblog.blogspot.com".
* The blog will never be published to "www.myblog.blogspot.com", so do not enter it as "www.myblog.blogspot.com".
* If the blog is published to "mydomain.zzz", enter it as "mydomain.zzz".
* If the blog is published to "www.mydomain.zzz", enter it as "www.mydomain.zzz".
* If the blog is published to "xxxxx.mydomain.zzz", enter it as "xxxxx.mydomain.zzz".
If you rename the blog, either changing the BlogSpot URL or remember to repeat this exercise with the updated URL.
5. This will take you to Overview.

Next Step
Verify your site. By verifying your site you can access comprehensive statistics and crawl errors about the pages in your site


6. Click the link for "Verify your site".

7. This will take you to Verify a Site.

8. In the Choose verification method... pull down list, select Add a meta tag.

9. This will generate your site verification meta tag. Highlight and Copy the text from the box.

10. In a separate window, edit the template for your blog. Paste into the template, in the heading section, your site verification meta tag (detail removed to make this easy to read):







<$BlogMetaData$>



Here you might want to note the different ways to format a meta tag.

11. Save Template Changes.

12. Go back to Verify a Site, and hit Verify.

13. This will take you to Overview. Part of the display will include:

You've successfully verified (your site)

By adding a Google sitemap to your blog, you can more easily submit your site to the Google search engine spider. You get better coverage by the spider, than by simply submitting your blog to the Google search engine. You'll also get detailed statistics about how Google sends traffic your way, and how the Google spider sees your blog.