Everyone out there with a website wants their website to be at the top of the Search Engine Results Page (SERP). Let us get this straight. The first and foremost thing to make Google love your website is to submit your website sitemap to different search engines. Once you submit the website sitemap to search engines, their spiders will crawl the links of your website and then index them.
Only those links of your website will show up in the SERP which are indexed by search engines. If the link is not indexed, it will not show up in the search results.
Generating Sitemap is very much important for getting your blog posts indexed on Google Search. Read how you can make your Google search show more effective and accurate results. Generating the sitemap for blogs with custom domains, especially for the blogger blogs with custom domain is bit tricky. Last week I made a flip for one of my blog's '.blogspot.com' domain to a '.com' domain, so I know how tricky it is. After making the flip, I searched the web for entire day until finally I got the solution and thought to write about it so it can be helpful to others.
Case 1:
If your site is not a blog and you have access to the server on which
your site is hosted (means if you can add files to the server on which
your site is hosted) then follow the below mentioned steps.
- Go to ' www(dot)xml-sitemaps(dot)com '.
- Enter your website address in the text box provided. The sitemap for your website will be generated in about 1 minute.
- After successfully generating the sitemap it will show a message as shown below
- So, you have successfully create sitemap for your site/blog. Now download the sitemap from the link provided and place it in the domain root folder of your website on the server.
- When you place the sitemap file in the root of your domain, open 'http://your-website-address/sitemap.xml' in your browser and that should show your sitemap. If it does not show your sitemap that means you have not placed the sitemap file in proper place so check it out.
- Now that you have successfully generated the sitemap, it is time to use it in the proper way. Read How to submit the Sitemap to Google.
Case 2:
if your site is a blog or is hosted on a free domain ( like '.blogspot.com' or '.wordpress.com' ) then follow the below mentioned steps to create your sitemap.
There are two methods you can generate the sitemap for your site. Type anyone of the following in the address bar and hit enter and the result would be the sitemap of your website. You may copy the entire text and save it in a file to use it later. Also read 'How to submit your sitemap to Google'.
- http://your-domain-name-here/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
- http://your-domain-name-here/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated&start-index=1&max-results=500
Replace 'your-domain-name-here' with your website address as shown in below example.
- http://www.yourwebsite.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
- http://www.yourwebsite.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated&start-index=1&max-results=500
Now that you have successfully generated the sitemap, it is time to use
it in the proper way.
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