Sitemap is a way to tell search engines about pages on your site that they might not otherwise discover. Google provides a way to submit sitemaps through Google Webmaster Tools.
For self hosted sites submitting sitemaps is easy but for blogspot(blogger) hosted sites there is a tweak involved. If you don’t follow this tweak; either you will end up with a WARNING and/or the maximum number of URLs submitted will be shown as 26.
So, how can you submit sitemaps for a blogger hosted blog without any warnings or errors?
Suppose you have a site called abc.blogspot.com. The sitemap for this site would be: http://abc.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100 meaning simply append atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100 to your blog URL in Google Webmaster Tools > Sitemaps > Add Sitemap.
Food for the thinking mind: If you don’t include redirect=false, webmaster tools will throw warning. If you don’t include start-index=1&max-results=100, the maximum number of URLs submitted will be shown as 26, always. Remember if you have more than 100 pages on your blogspot site, you would need to include two sitemaps one having an index starting with 1 and ending with 100(start-index=1&max-results=100) and the other having an index starting with 100 and ending with 200(start-index=100&max-results=100)
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what can i do if i have url more than 200.please suggest me any solution please.
thanks a lot.this is really helpfull
Great post!
Would you mind telling that what is the difference between:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
and
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
For my blog the latter show only 26 post.
http://pk-photography.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
When I submit “atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100” to sitemap in webmaster tool, it turns automatically into:
/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
Any solution would be highly appreciated.
Regards
nice post.
great tnx
Hi
I have been trying to submit sitemap for my website (not a blog site). It shows
Submitted URLs
1,095
1,044 URLs in web index
But it does not work. After a few days, i get the following message:
We’ll review the site. If we find that it’s no longer in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines, we’ll reconsider our indexing of the site. Please allow several weeks for the reconsideration request. We do review all requests, but unfortunately we can’t reply individually to each request.
This has happened several times.
Please help.
i get an issue
Your blog was declined for the following reason:
* We could not verify ownership of your blog.
A link back, widget or meta-tag is required to verify site ownership.
Please help me…thanks…
I have been looking for something like this for a while thank you
thanks this is what i want ….
Great Thanks
Thanks Bro
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Awesome!
Currently working on two sites, and just started on a personal blog, and was getting really annoyed with the whole 26 only in sitemap.
Thanks a bunch, A+
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i am having problem in submitting my sitemap this thing above is not working… it always shows a cross in status
Nice Dear it will h elp me
Hi!, nice post. i’m having troubles getting my site to show up in google. i added the sitemap.. but when i add the atom or rss.. it says that 9 pages are uploaded but non are beeing indexed… (?).. i’m spanish.. don’t know how to say it XD. can anyone help me??
Great!!!!!!!!!!
I was having headache with this problem. Now going to fix it. Thanks a lot…
Thanks man. I was wondering how to get that fixed and this was right on target! I appreciate you taking the time to inform the world!
I tried max-results=200 and it works and no need the start-index. Btw, will submitting multiple duplicate site maps helps or hurts?
Thanks for the post. I’ve gotten the same error as Dennis and currently trying to resubmit it as rss. Will be checking back.
Cheers,
C K
It keeps on saying 24 urls submitted
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
Why??
My problem is that i have 1700 posts!
can u help? thanx a lot
thx Bro…
Hi,
Yes, exactly the same. On another of my blogs your format worked. For the one with problems I tried replacing atom by rss and that seems to work…. strange.
Dennis
Hi Row,
Thanks for this! There’s a lot of posts around giving wrong info. Yours is the best I found. Submitted this sitemap and the number of urls found is exactly my amount of posts. One thing though: I still get the WARNING. It says:
Invalid XML tag
This tag was not recognized. Please fix it and resubmit.
Parent tag: author
Tag: extendedProperty
Any ideas? The only thing I can think of is that I’m using my custom domain name in Webmastertools instead of the blogspot one. Am now testing whether this makes a difference (just entered my blogspot url in the dashboard and used your sitemap url)
Thanks Dennis.
Regarding your issue, are you using the exact format I have used in the post? One of my blogs is on blogger and I have applied the same trick there and it doesn’t show any errors or warnings.
Thanks a lot guys. i can’t tell you how luck i’m feeling right now just because of your post on sitemap
i started i guess 20 blogs and wasn’t able to see in search results …. i’m now trying your idea i hope this will work for me ….
by the way i checked that i can use rss.xml instead of atom.xml. can i ? i mean if i change this
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
into
rss.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
rss.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=200
and one more thing. can’t we just use this ” atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 ” ????
@AJ:
Glad you liked it.
Regarding your query, nopes start-index=1&max-results=500 won’t work.
i get an error, when submiting feeds/posts/default on webmastertool, Thanks AJ,,,your comment is very useful for me,,and now, i can fix my problem…thanks…
You need some change to this post.
start-index=100&max-results=200)-Wrong
start-index=101&max-results=100)-Right
If u enter 200 crowls 200 urls per sitemap
@Stock market – Thanks for the heads up. I have corrected that.
wow, this is awesome. others web and blog only ask us to use atom.xml. i am using atom.xml for 3 month already and having almost 50 posts. yet my url submitted only 26. thx for your info. i hope everyone will know this tips and leave the ’26’ one..