How To Submit Blogger Blogs Sitemaps via Google Webmaster Tools

Submitting your blogger blogs' sitmap to a wemaster tool is as important as going for an traffic inflow course! In fact it is one the major steps you must take to get your blog live and SEO friendly. You may ask, what is a Sitemap? Well as its name implies, A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.

It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion.
Now you have known what a sitemap is, next thing will be how to identify it and also where to submit it.

Before you can submit your blog Sitemap, you must have added your blog URL to Google Search Engine.and possibly verified ownership of blog for crawling by Google.

How You Can Submit Your Blog Sitemap
I have provided two methods which you can use to submit your sitemap to Google Webmaster, lets see them:

Method #1: 
1. Login to http://www.google.com/webmasters 
2. Click on your blog
3. Click on the "Your Site On The Web" link
4. Click on "Subscriber stats"
5. The action in Step 4 will show a radio button under " Submit feed as sitemap". Click the "Yes, Please" button to finish adding sitemap.
See the snap-shot of mine below

Method #2: 

1.  Login to http://www.google.com/webmasters
2.  Click on your blog
3.  Click on the "Site Configuration" link.
4.  Click on "Sitemaps"
5.  Click "Submit Sitemap" and in the box that will pop up, copy and paste the code below;

 /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 

6. Click "Submit". Google will send you a reply message that    /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 has been added successfully as sitemap

You're done!

Important Tip: max-results=500 is the highest number of posts Google can accepts or crawl, most people who are still starting up their blogs use either 100 or 200. But I prefer using 500 since I know too well that I still have the obligation of creating more posts to give my blog the chances of getting indexed by Google Crawlers.

Once you are done, continue writing good and quality contents for your blog, ping your blog after each post to notify search engine of your site new update and give Google at least 24 hours before you start checking for web index or number of URLs indexed. The most important thing is having a "Good Sign" marked on your site status.

I hope this worked for you? Let me know how this tutorial helped you or how it went by using the comment form below. We will continue sharing ideas and knowledge as long as we communicate with each other!