Submitting your Blogger.com or Blogspot.com blog site to Google
Webmaster will enable Google to find, index, and rank your site. For
those who are new to this, you may go to the official Google Webmaster Tools site to create a new Webmaster profile.
Upon
logging in using your Gmail account, key in your blog site URL, and
click OK. You will then be asked to verify your site. This is to
ascertain that you are indeed the owner of the site.
There are
two ways to verify your site. You can either add a Meta Tag or Upload
an HTML file. If you are using the Meta Tag method, Google will
generate a Meta Tag code. Copy the META tag that is generated for you,
and paste it in your site's home page in the first section of the page,
before the first section. What you do is to go to your Blogger
dashboard. Under Template ->Edit HTML, somewhere near the top of the
script, add the Meta Tag as follows:-
<head>
<META TAG>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> |
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Replace the META TAG
with the code generated by Google Webmaster. Once done, Save the
Template. When you return to Google Webmaster site, you can click the
button that says “Verify”.
Note: The second method of uploading an HTML file is NOT
applicable to Bloggers using Blogger.com or Blogspot.com because this
requires you to upload a file to the root directory of your Blog, which
is not possible. There is therefore only one method for you to verify
your site, and that is by inserting the Meta Tag as explained above.
After
you have had your site verified, click on the Sitemaps tab as shown
below. By adding a Sitemap, you will be providing Google with more
details and information about your Blog. With this, Google will crawl
your site, report information on any errors in the Sitemaps tab, and
index your Blog site at a faster rate.
Click
the link that says “Add a Sitemap”. This will take you to another
screen where you should choose the type “Add General Web Sitemap”. The
Sitemap URL for any normal website is usually the index page that is
stored in the highest-level directory of that site. In the case of
Blogger.com or Blogspot.com, the only way to add a Sitemap is to use
either of the following 2 Sitemaps:-
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/rss.xml
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OR
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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Remember to replace YOURBLOGNAME with that of your Blog's. For Blogger blogs, do not add "www." to YOURBLOGNAME.
Once you have added your Sitemaps, you will receive a confirmation
telling you that reports are being generated but “may take several hours
to update”. Congratulations! You have successfully added your
Sitemaps. When you login to your Google Webmaster days later, you
should be able to see the indexed pages and statistics of Google
webcrawl of your Blog.
Leave the meta tag in the template if you
want to view the statistics of your site. If Google can't find the meta
tag, it will show an error message in your webmaster toolbox and you may
have to verify your site again.
You may want to read the articles on how to Submit Blogger URL sitemap to Yahoo! and Submit Blogger Sitemap to MSN and Ask.com. Also, submit your Blog to Blog Directories and Feed Directories to let more people know about your Blog. As well, submit your Blog to the various Search Engines for maximum exposure.
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