id you submit a sitemap to search engine before? When talk about submit a sitemap to search engine, most of the people out there will think about Google. How to submit a sitemap to Google?
Again talk about my blogging experience, before I submit my sitemap to google.com, my daily visitor was about 50 per days, after submitting the sitemap, my website visitor increase to 100 for the particular month after Google come to index my website 3 times at that month.
To submit your sitemap to Google, you require to access the Google webmaster tools website
- Access www.google.com/webmasters/tools (Google Webmaster Tools)
- Create an account, fill up all the related information
- After finish create, check your email for verification link, once finish, log in your account
You are required to add a site (Your website address) to Google webmaster tools, after add in your website URL, you require to make a verification either add a code to META or upload a HTML file to your web hosting.
The following step will need to verify your website, select your desire step, click on “verify your site”
In this case, I choose to verify my website from uploading a HTML file, after this, the system will provide you something like :
google4aea4c4xx4e7ba7b.html
To create this HTML file, Open a notepad, save a file as “google4aea1c4xx9e7bb7b.html”
Upload this file to your main directory at your web hosting by using your FTP software, so that it able to view at http://www.dreamnetworkz.com/google4aea1c4xx9e7bb7b.html
After upload, click the “verify” button.
Once successful verify, you can now go to the sitemap on the left sidebar
Key in your full sitemap and click”submit sitemap”
Done, you have already submitted your sitemap to Google Search Engine, Google’s bot or spider will come to crawl your sitemap shortly, it takes up to few weeks or few month time base on Google schedule.
Tips : As my experience, no need rush to submit your sitemap (Still you can submit) if your website is very new without much content, just imagine google bot just like human, when visiting your website, without much content to index, I don’t think the bot will be happy and come back again in the short time… Make sense?
If you did not create a sitemap for your blog, maybe you can refer to How to create sitemap for WordPress. Submit to Google is just one of the largest search engine in the world, How about MSN and Yahoo?… I will talk about how to submit feed URL to Yahoo.com and How to submit sitemap to Msn.com soon.
Nice posting which i always want to know how and I will come back again to check it out. Thanks for sharing and I bookmarked your site.
Hehe… I did that for all my blogs already. 😉
Most of the bloggers are using wordpress. Anyone know how to upload the sitemap.txt to blogspot text?
In my case, my blog is located at
http://selfhelp4u.blogspot.com
Any way to upload the sitemap.txt to the root?
Great tips! I nearly forgot about submitting sitemap to Google, I have done it previously for my older blogs but then it slip off my mine and you remind me of it! Thanks Calvyn, great share!
Thanks i learnt something again, sitemaps.. hmmm
Submiting a sitemap is killing me. I have tried to write like this:
http ://alexandindi.blogspot.com/SITEMAP.XML
It is not working. All I get is Errors. Look below.
What should I do? What should I write in the litle window before “Submit sitemap” ?
General HTTP error: 404 not found
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.
Thank you
Alex >
for blogger sitemap is
yourname.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Hi, don’t quite understand. Where do I upload the HTML file on my blog? Mine is blogspot.
Nice posting
Very nice website.Thanks for the valuable contributions to this site. Have good works.
Thanks for your help
Hi,
Really very well explained….So easy to understand…
Thank you..