Submit Your Blogger/FeedBurner Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools

Posted by Ssannara | Friday, July 11, 2008 | , | 44 comments »   | Email this article to your friends.

Submitting a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools provides Google about your site and posts. However I recently found the article "How do I create a Sitemap file?" from Google Webmaster Help Center that You don't need to submit your Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools if you use a Blogger.



Blogger automatically submits a Sitemap for you



Even though the article says so, I decided to submit my Sitemap to Google becasue I am not 100% sure how it works and it does not cost or hurt me even if I submit it.















Here's how!



1. If you do not have Google Webmaster Tools account, you can register by visiting Google Webmaster Tools.



Google Webmaster Tools


2. If you do not use a redirected custom feed such as FeedBurner, type "atom.xml" and click "Add General Web Sitemap" button.



Add Sitemap


3. If you do use a redirected custome feed such as FeedBurner, type "atom.xml?redirect=false".





Otherwise you will see "URL not allowed" error because the sitemap you have submitted to Google Webmaster Tools is actually redirecting to the FeedBurner feed URL not your site URL. And your Sitemap contains a URL that is not allowed based on the Sitemap's location.







Sitemap with errors and Sitemap without errors


Updated on 7/14/2008

How to submit more than 100 posts to Google Sitemap



ArpitNext has commented out - Thanks ArpitNext - that Google Sitemap refers the latest 25 posts from Blogger which I am not sure the exact number.

However there is a still way to submit your all of your posts.



If you have more than 100 posts and want to post all to Google Sitemap, add the below:

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100


If you have more than 200 posts and want to post all to Google Sitemap, add the below:

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100


If you have more than 300 posts and want to post all to Google Sitemap, add the below:

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=301&max-results=100


As you can see the above, start-index is the post number to start returning results from and max-results is the how many posts you want returned from whatever the number you state on start-index. The maximum max-results is 500 (from many blogger) but to be safe, it is recommended to put 100.





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44 comments

  1. Michael Hastings // July 12, 2008 10:17 AM  

    thanks for this information. I have been tearing my hair out (what little I have) trying to figure this out. By the way, this post is how I found your blog.

  2. Ssannara // July 12, 2008 11:10 AM  

    Thanks again Michale for your comments and the source how you found me. :) I just crated my blog like a week ago and am still trying to find out the way how World knows where I am. :)

  3. ArpitNext // July 12, 2008 3:32 PM  

    Hi ! I am using this trick for long ... but this is not very powerful !
    :(

    The reason is that this default sitemap , provided by Blogger.com , refers just latest 25 posts and we can't control the setting like Update- period etc .

    Seriously , thinking for moving to wordpress !

  4. Ssannara // July 14, 2008 8:39 AM  

    Hi ArpitNext, I have updated my post to explain how to submit more than 100 posts to Google Webmaster Tools so you can use it. Thanks for the comment.

  5. ArpitNext // July 14, 2008 5:02 PM  

    Thanks !

  6. John Smith // July 28, 2008 5:42 AM  

    It was really helpful. Thanks a lot man. I have been googling the net for months to find something to help me in indexing all my blog pages to google. Everyone tells to submit rss.xml or atom.xml to webmaster tools but it picks only the latest twenty five. So nice of you by giving this >>

    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=200
    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=300

    and so on

  7. Ssannara // July 28, 2008 10:56 AM  

    Glad to hear that John. One thing I want to make sure is that max-results is the # that you want to display starting from start-index. So it should be 100 since you can only submit every 100 posts to Google. The below will be correct:
    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100
    atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100

  8. রাশেদ // July 30, 2008 6:15 PM  

    Thanks a lot. I had no idea about this thing. :)

  9. Ssannara // July 30, 2008 6:35 PM  

    I did not know either.. :)

  10. Mark // August 15, 2008 6:11 AM  

    Thanks, now i solve my problem.//

  11. Ssannara // August 17, 2008 12:35 AM  

    You're welcome Mark!

  12. HidupTreda // September 20, 2008 2:16 PM  

    are that scripts working with wordpress to?!
    because i have same problem with it..

  13. ocid // September 22, 2008 12:11 AM  

    Nice information.
    Thank you for share this important thing.

  14. Blogger Blog // October 5, 2008 12:19 PM  

    Thanks a lot for the tips. Just resubmit my blogger blog using your methods. It is pending now... Can't wait to see how it turns out to be. Lanna

  15. debpc // November 4, 2008 1:13 PM  

    I submitted my blogger sitemap few days before but only one page was indexed so far. I am still waiting when my full sitemap will be indexed by google!

  16. Anonymous // November 29, 2008 4:32 AM  

    i have more than 1000 posts. So what can i do?

  17. HelloChello // December 6, 2008 11:35 AM  

    thanks!

  18. Free Engineering Guide // December 22, 2008 3:00 AM  

    really good i have used this in my blog
    http://engineersguideonline.blogspot.com

  19. buzzerbeeser // December 22, 2008 6:43 PM  

    Thanks and i have alreadyapplied what i read in my 3 blogs :)

  20. Blogger Blog // December 22, 2008 8:13 PM  

    Hi;
    Remember I left a comment here a while ago and told you that my blog was pending...
    It turns out that my blog is doing very well after I applied to your method. 66 out of 69 pages are indexed so far. Thank you very much for sharing this. If you are curious, here is my blog: http://meaningfulblog.blogspot.com. Lanna

  21. eyashwant // January 17, 2009 6:52 AM  
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  23. eyashwant // January 17, 2009 6:58 AM  

    I read methods from various sources but this is a correct one to use when you are using feed burner or redirecting feed URL for any reason.
    My website : http://www.ens.org.in/
    My blogs : http://www.ens-web.blogspot.com
    http://www.eyashwant.blogspot.com
    http://www.corporate-crisis.blogspot.com

    You can check these blogs. I have used the same method as this. But used some tweaks to make it even more better.

  24. predatorrrr3 // March 10, 2009 9:34 PM  

    thanks but it didn't work with me
    google reject it
    what is the problem

    http://ebook44free.blogspot.com/

  25. milan18 // April 12, 2009 3:56 AM  

    i cant see in add a sitemap button in my dashboard

  26. Baphomet2013 // June 14, 2009 12:14 AM  

    webmaster tool recently changed it's look. Now I don't know if this has anything to do with anything but my sitemap, from blogger, used to read all of my pages, 32 in total, now all of a sudden it claims I'm only submitting 24 pages.

    Please whelp if you can, or anybody.

    I followed your advice on the sitemap because I use feedburner but now it doesn't seem to matter. No matter what I do Google only submits 24 pages via my sitemap.

    It's not a robots.txt issue
    It's not a feedburner issue
    I didn't do anything to the sitemap, google created it.

    What could it be?

  27. C K // June 16, 2009 4:13 AM  

    After Google Webmaster's 'upgrade', this method no longer works for me. Any clues? Thanks!

  28. Hannah // August 16, 2009 1:27 AM  

    First of all, thanks a lot. Before this I never know that google only submits 25 pages by default...Now I resubmit my sitemap using your method and it works! :D Now I'm waiting to see if all my pages get indexed... :)

    Again, thanks a lot!

  29. fanclub // August 31, 2009 5:28 AM  

    i think if you enable SmartFeed from your Feedburner account there's no need for redirection.

  30. Boris Levalle // September 3, 2009 9:11 AM  

    I submitted several sitemaps, of which this one for some reason doesn't work: atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100
    It says "invalid tag value". Surprisingly, the sitemaps with values 1, 201, 301 work fine. Do you know what the problem is?

  31. Mr. Pimp // September 5, 2009 4:39 AM  

    Great post! Thanks very much

  32. UnoCosa // September 6, 2009 10:30 PM  

    how this is so so helpful --- i kept on getting the "url not allowed" error after switching to feedburner ... not i know why - thanks for the a very detailed step by step - bookmarked for my fellow bloggers :D

  33. Smac20 // September 10, 2009 7:45 PM  

    I am just testing this out on http://www.investingincanada.info

    just moved my url from a blogspot address over. Hopefully it works because only half of my pages are indexed. Will post an update if I have a problem.

    Cheers!

  34. One Simple Tech // September 20, 2009 12:43 PM  

    Nice Article...

    One Simple Tech - Computer News, Reviews and Guides
    The Forex Page - The Foreign Exchange
    The Airlines Page - All Things Airlines
    The Fitness Page - Guides to Healty Life
    The Network site - The Networking Site
    The Adsense Site - Guides to Blogging and Adsense
    The Asian Hotties - Sexy Asian Girls
    Guam Page - All Things Guam
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  35. Manish Singh // September 24, 2009 5:43 AM  

    I have just submitted the site map of www.newsblock.co.cc. Thanks for helpful post

  36. Sitemap Xml // October 6, 2009 8:50 AM  

    Very useful piece of information. Thanks for the post.

  37. ARCAVA // October 23, 2009 1:04 PM  

    I had change my blogger into .co.cc (www.arcava.co.cc) but i have new problem with feedburner. Else blog can't connect to my .co.cc
    It have to set manually to arcava.blogspot.com at add widget feed burner to make it connect correctly. How it can be? Please help me.

  38. Anonymous // November 5, 2009 1:21 AM  

    Hello i have a blog in wordpress how to do the same?

    greetings

  39. Ariel S // November 6, 2009 12:08 PM  

    I've been new to WordPress and searching for getting Feedburner to work with WordPress and RSS. This site is well indexed when searching, but its missing the piece on RSS2... If you were to update it, I would include that for reference. Thanks!

  40. Ariel S // November 6, 2009 12:13 PM  

    Sorry, forgot to mention for others reading... this link should help.
    http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/redirecting-wordpress-feeds-to-feedburner.html
    I used the one for custom permalinks, http://example.com/feed/rss2/

  41. Karlota // January 2, 2010 5:30 PM  

    thanks for the info

  42. Hammad // January 11, 2010 11:31 AM  

    It's nice post.

  43. sico // January 23, 2010 11:18 AM  

    Thanks man its work ,great job.Since the huge amount of blogger is redirect their feeds to feedburner this is the only thing it work

  44. laptop notebook // February 8, 2010 6:33 AM  

    nice info ...
    thanks

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