Making Your Living Online

This is how you can add a sitemap to your blogger.com account and increase your chances of being indexed in the Google search engine results. You can add a Sitemap to your account to give Google more information about the pages on your site. This will help Google crawl them more effectively.

Step # 1: Login to sitemap account

At the top of screen you should see the option to add site. Just paste the URL of your blog (for example http://(making-living-online.blogspot.com/)

Step # 2: Now you need to verify the ownership of your blog to view detailed statistics. Click on the verify link. Google offers two methods of verification. You can either upload a HTML file with a name we specify (which isn't possible with a Blogger account), or you can add a META tag to your site's index file. Adding META tag via template code is possible so just select Add a META tag from drop down menu:

Step # 3: Go to your blogger.com account and login.

Goto your blog > Click on Template

Paste the META tag code in the < head > section.

Click on Save Template changes button

Click on Republish Index only button > Wait for few seconds so that your blog being published successfully.

Step # 4: Now goto your sitemap account and click the box that reads as follows:

I've added the META tag in the home page of http://making-living-online.blogspot.com/. Click on the Verify button.

Step # 5: Now your site is added to the sitemap account and verification is done. Next you need to add actual the sitemap url. Since blogger.com account doesn't allow you to create a text file or anything else you need to add your site feed (ATOM xml) file as a site map. Click on add a sitemap link:

Step # 6: You can add a Sitemap to your account to provide Google with additional information about about your blog. Google will process your Sitemap and provide information on any errors in the Sitemaps tab, your sitemap will be downloaded everyday to index your blog fast.

Select type as : Add General Web sitemap

Now you need to add Atom 0.3 feeds. Generally, you would use this format only if your site already has a syndication feed and this is the only way to add sitemap to your blogger.com account.

Paste url of your Atom feed: For example http://making-living-online.blogspot.com/atom.xml and click on Add Web sitemap: