Adding Your Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools

Step 1


First,go to google webmaster tools and sign in with your Gmail account.

Step 2

DashBoard

After you logged in, you will see this asking you to add a site. your blog URL (ex: email-club.blogspot.com).Don't add with http or www.


Step 3

Overview

Next, it asks you to verify your site. It is just to confirm whether you are the owner or not.CLICK on the 'verify your site' link.


Step 4

Choose desired Verification Method
Next
Step 5

Meta Tag

There are two ways to verify your ownership but, there is only one way for the blogger users and that is by adding a metatag. This will be generated by google and you will be asked to copy and place in the html source of your blog.
Step 6

Metatag

Copy the metatag.Now, sign into your blogger account>Click the layout button>Edit html and paste the metatag just after the head tag and save the changes.
Step 7

Verification

Click the verify button in the Google webmaster tools and there will be a confirmation message saying that you have successfully verified.
Step 8

Add Sitemap

Now, you have to submit a sitemap for Google to crawl your site. Go back to the Google webmaster dashboard or (home) and click the 'site configuration.(After Click on the site that you want to add its site map).A drop down is given where you will click on sitemaps link which is next to your blog name and in the Sitemaps column. Click on add sitemap.
Step 9

The Sitemap URL for any normal website is usually the index page that is stored in the highest-level directory of that site. In the case of Blogger.com or Blogspot.com, the only way to add a Sitemap is to use either of the following 2 Sitemaps:-

http://YOURBLOGNAME. blogspot.com/rss.xml
OR

http://YOURBLOGNAME. blogspot.com/atom.xml

Step 10

Then all you have to do is to fill just "rss.xml" or "atom.xml" in the box next to your blog name. Save and exit. Allow a couple of days ranging to weeks for google to crawl your site.
If you have any questions or additions, you can reach me via the comments. Happy Blogging

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