Creating/posting sitemaps for your blogpost blog in google, bing and yahoo

Hi,

If you are a blog addict and want to let the big search engines know, about your blog then posting sitemap can really boom your business. Here is how you can do it. For this you definitely do no need to have any SEO knowledge whatsoever.

For submitting in Google:
First of all you need to create a webmaster account for your blogspot.com blog. This go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en and add your website.

For Bing and Yahoo there are no such prerequisites. Now we move on to creating our sitemaps. For this I came across an excellent tool, http://digitalinspiration.com/tools/blogger/sitemap/. Just type in your blogspot URL in the following:

After submitting it you will get a list something like:

Google Sitemaps - Indexing URL's in Google

Hi,

Google sitemaps are an excellent way to let google know about the various webpages of your website. By default the google will crawl your website once in a while, but if you create sitemaps and submit them to google, then the indexing gets speed up and also a lot of pages might get indexed in google search engine.

By the term sitemap, I am not referring to the general websites sitemap.html which tell you what are the links and what are the sub links inside the website. Google sitemaps is like a special xml file with predefined tags, each of which has an distinctive meaning. Here is a sample content of a sitemap.xml file:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.90">
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.url.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2010-01-27T23:55:42+01:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.url.com/page1.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2010-01-26T17:24:27+01:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>http://www.url.com/page2.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2010-01-26T17:24:27+01:00</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>

The given tags are predefined. <loc> contains the URL you want to index, <lastmod> is when the content was last modified, <changefreq> is how often its content gets changed and <priority> is how important is the file; where 1 is most important and .1 is least.