How to submit blogger sitemap successfully and fix the maximum limit issue?

by Ankur Jain on November 18, 2008

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. how to create and submit sitemap? 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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Fun things To Do When Bored February 11, 2009 at 12:56 PM

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..

Stock Market March 4, 2009 at 4:10 PM

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

ROW March 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM: @Stock market – Thanks for the heads up. I have corrected that.

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AJ May 19, 2009 at 7:06 AM

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 ” ????

ROW May 19, 2009 at 12:48 PM: @AJ:
Glad you liked it.
Regarding your query, nopes start-index=1&max-results=500 won’t work.

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RicRat April 18, 2011 at 12:24 PM: 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…

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Dennis May 28, 2009 at 3:01 PM

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)

ROW May 28, 2009 at 10:58 PM: 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.

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Dennis May 29, 2009 at 1:10 AM

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

indonesia product June 17, 2009 at 6:34 AM

thx Bro…

Giorgio June 21, 2009 at 7:29 PM

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

C K June 22, 2009 at 3:51 PM

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

ChampDog July 22, 2009 at 5:55 PM

I tried max-results=200 and it works and no need the start-index. Btw, will submitting multiple duplicate site maps helps or hurts?

Brad F. September 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM

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!

rana December 9, 2009 at 10:15 PM

Great!!!!!!!!!!

I was having headache with this problem. Now going to fix it. Thanks a lot…

Laura December 22, 2009 at 5:29 AM

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??

Rapidsahre Downloads December 28, 2009 at 7:07 PM

Nice Dear it will h elp me

maventech January 15, 2010 at 7:12 PM

i am having problem in submitting my sitemap this thing above is not working… it always shows a cross in status

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Larzzral April 6, 2010 at 8:45 PM

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+

Andrey April 6, 2010 at 11:35 PM

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Bilal June 5, 2010 at 5:23 PM

Thanks Bro

Hq-Share June 5, 2010 at 5:24 PM

Great Thanks

madd December 18, 2010 at 1:46 PM

thanks this is what i want ….

Ralph Thelemaque February 12, 2011 at 9:44 PM

I have been looking for something like this for a while thank you

ricrat February 18, 2011 at 11:37 AM

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…

fortest1000 March 29, 2011 at 3:01 PM

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.

pinkey May 16, 2011 at 8:10 AM