Make Google Better Crawl your Blogger Blog

Mrinmay Bhattacharjee | May 20, 2009 More

Definitely many of you do Blogging on Blogger. One day or the other Google will crawl all your posts and add them to it’s Search Index.

You can help Google in crawling your Blogger Blog Better by Adding a Sitemap. This post shows you How to Add a Sitemap to your Blog Hosted on Blogger?

Follow these simple steps in order to add a Sitemap for your Blogger Blog:

Go to Blogger and Sign In with your Google Account Login Name.
Scroll Down, you will see Webmasters Tools under Tools and Resources:

blogger-webmasters-tools

Click on Webmasters Tools and you will be redirected to Google Webmaster Tools Automatically. In this step your Blogger blog will be verified automatically.
In your Dashboard, click your Blog Name under Site Information:

site-information

Now Click on Sitemaps:

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Now enter following ATOM Feed URL Just after your Blog Name, as shown below:

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=50000

sitemap-url

Click Submit Sitemap and it’s all done. Check after 5-7 Days and all your Blogger URLs will be successfully crawled by Google!

By adding a Sitemap, you are simply helping Google to Crawl your Posts/Images Better. But keep in mind that Google will add and display only those results in it’s Search Engine which it feels suitable, though it will crawl all the available URLs.

You can check Index Stats of your site simply by using site: Operator (See Example Below; For blogger use site:abc.blogspot.com, here abc is your Blogger Blog Name):

google-site-operator