"How to Create XML Sitemap for blogger and how to identify xml sitemap for your blog. How to Submit XML Sitemap on Web Master Tools of Google, Bing & Yahoo."
In this post, we cover up how to identify your blogger blog sitemap and how to it's works. If you're using a blogger platform a long time then you know about how to use a atom or rss feeds for sitemap in custom robots.txt, google and bing web master tools.
Google rolling out blogger sitemap before few months and it's like previous one but it's hosted on your domain and more convenient to your blogger blog.Now I'm discuss about new sitemap of your blogger blog.
Google rolling out blogger sitemap before few months and it's like previous one but it's hosted on your domain and more convenient to your blogger blog.Now I'm discuss about new sitemap of your blogger blog.
What is XML Sitemap?
The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently. Sitemaps are a URL inclusion protocol and complement robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol.
Sitemaps are particularly beneficial on websites where:
- some areas of the website are not available through the browsable interface, or
- webmasters use rich Ajax, Silverlight, or Flash content that is not normally processed by search engines.
How to Works in Blogger?
Sitemap is an XML document which lists out all the URLs of your site in an XML format so that search engines can easily identify and crawl pages on your website.
The Sitemap Protocol format consists of XML tags. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded. Sitemaps can also be just a plain text list of URLs. They can also be compressed in .gz format.
A sample Sitemap that contains just one URL and uses all optional tags is shown below.
The Sitemap Protocol format consists of XML tags. The file itself must be UTF-8 encoded. Sitemaps can also be just a plain text list of URLs. They can also be compressed in .gz format.
A sample Sitemap that contains just one URL and uses all optional tags is shown below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
Thare are six different parameter to define XML Sitemap Structure and how it's works?
<urlset> Encapsulates the file and references the current protocol standard.
<url> Parent tag for each URL entry. The remaining tags are children of this tag.
<loc> URL of the page. This URL must begin with the protocol (such as http) and end with a trailing slash, if your web server requires it. This value must be less than 2,048 characters.
<lastmod> The date of last modification of the file. This date should be in W3C Datetime format. This format allows you to omit the time portion, if desired, and use YYYY-MM-DD.
<changefreq> How frequently the page is likely to change. This value provides general information to search engines and may not correlate exactly to how often they crawl the page. Valid values are:
always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never
<priority> The priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site. Valid values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This value does not affect how your pages are compared to pages on other sites—it only lets the search engines know which pages you deem most important for the crawlers. The default priority of a page is 0.5.
How to Identify Sitemap in Blogger?
The location of the sitemap is usually specified in the site’s robots.txt file(which will be read by the Search Engine Crawlers).If you look at the robots.txt file of any Blogger Blog, you will find that it specifies a new sitemap URL.
As you can see in the above screenshot, this blog’s sitemap is located at
http://www.bgbeginner/sitemap.xml
If you take a look at this URL, you can see that it lists out the URLs of all posts on BGBeginner along with their last modified timestamp. This information will help the crawlers in easily identifying any new entries on your blog.
We hope this article helped to you to improve your blogger knowledge and also more improvement for your blog.
In my next article, we cover up how to submit your sitemap on Google webmaster tools.
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