Add a Google Sitemap

2007

Jun

There might be one or two of you out there wondering how to add a google sitemap to your blogspot blog. I wondered about it for a while, since google requires you to upload an xml file which you can’t do since blogger doesn’t allow you to add your own pages.

Then I found this post, I found it quite helpful. The post explains how to add a sitemap even if you’re using blogger as your platform. For those of you that don’t want to read a long post, here’s the general gist of it all.

You log in to your google webmaster account and you will be taken to your dashboard where you can see the sites or blogs that you have added. There will be a few options and one of them is to add a sitemap, click on that one. You will be taken to a screen where you will have to chose between two options, chose the one that says ‘Add General Web Sitemap’. Then you have to add the URL of your sitemap, but since blogger doesn’t let us add pages to our blog, we cannot add a sitemap URL. So instead you put the URL of the xml file for your atom feed, it will look something like this http://www.simsnotes.com/atom.xml. After that click on the ‘add web sitemap’ button and that’s it, you’ll get a message about google taking a few days to check things out but your part is over.

Hope this is helpful, it was to me.

Simon

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