Generate And Submit Blogger Sitemap To Major Search Engines

When I started blogging I never come across made easy tools like the ones you come across these days. Blogging using blogspot platform is becoming more interesting as different developers are busy creating easy environment to blog. For me, I specialized in CSS and HTML and it has helped me in better understanding the struture of blog themes/template. In this post, I will share with you a nice tool to generate and submit sitemap to major search engines like "Google and Bing".

What is sitemap?

According to Wikipedia - A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for Web design, or a Web page that lists the pages on a Web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion.

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

4 Importance of creating sitemap

1. Navigation reason
2. Conveying your site's theme
3. Site optimization reason
4. Organization and relevance

1.Navigation reason

A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease. 

2.Conveying your site's theme

When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the "big picture" of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors' time.

3.Site optimization reason

When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every single page on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page -- they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every single page of your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your website. 

4.Organization and relevance

A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird's eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance. 

Yes! I know what you are probably thinking now, guy! how do I implement this? right?

Enough of the lecture lets begin:

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1. Inside first box, type your full blog URL including http://

2. Add a Forward Slash at the end of your Address. For example: http://itellmore.blogspot.com/ or http://itellmore.com/ 

3. Inside second box, type the total number of posts you have published so far in numeric form only. For example: 1000 - posts so far.

The total number of posts you posted so far for that particular domain/URL

Then click generate

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