Most sites will eventually be indexed if they are live long enough, but who knows how long it could take for Google to crawl your site and index you?
The great thing is Google and most major search engines offer us a way to 'guide' them to and around our sites so they can index us quickly and efficiently. These little gems are called Sitemaps.
How to Submit a Full XML Sitemap for blogger.
Submitting a Sitemap of your blogger blog to Google and other search engines is a fairly simple process. Nearly every blog nowadays have an RSS/Atom feed and most blogging platforms provide this by default, like Blogger. Your Sitemap is basically your RSS/Atom feed displayed as an XML Document.The default URL for blogger Feeds look something like this...
http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default or http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full
You can submit this Feed as your Sitemap to help google find your pages, but there is a big problem with using the default feed.
It only displays 25 of your latest blog posts. What if you have 500 posts? You want all of them indexed right? Instead of submitting the above Feed you want to submit a Full Sitemap.A full feed URL looks like this...
http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
The part in red means it will display posts from post 1, and the part in green means it will display a max of 500 post. So, you can see with this sitemap you will be able to submit up to 500 pages of your site.
Visit the link below to find out exactly how to add your Sitemaps to Google.
http://support.google.com/sites/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100283
What if I have more than 500 pages?
Simply submit a second Sitemap with a slight difference. Change the start point (the red part) to 501 like this...http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
With the two site maps you will be able to submit page 1 to 500 and page 501 to 1000.
If you want to add more pages just change the start value e.g 1001, 1501, 2001 etc.
Hope this helps
I am trying as your suggestion but it is not working to my blog: http://2weightlossbd.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteHi Reaz,
DeleteSorry, I should have mentioned that If you are pasting the whole URL in it wont work. You only need to add...
/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Google automatically adds your domain.
also, sometimes Google adds extra 'amp&' when you copy and paste, try removing them if they have appeared.
Here is a screen shot of what it should look like...
http://bit.ly/JYCiN4
Hope this helps.