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As shown in Blogger, Feedburner, Sitemaps and Submitting All Your Posts Blogger Feeds Google « phydeaux3 Blogger blogs generally do not need to add their sitemap to Google Webmasters as they are usually well crawled. Also a sitemap is included in the default robots.txt file in the blog root :

http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/robots.txt

Load the above URL in browser after putting in your blog name instead of MYBLOG and you will see :

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search

Sitemap: http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

The sitemap is shown in the last line.



Adding your sitemap as the feed from your blog faces another difficulty when your feed has been redirected. In this case login to Google Webmasters Dashboard and click on link under Sitemap. First you will have to add your site to Google Webmasters. In that case paste your blog URL in the Add site box and click the Add site button.


When adding sitemap choose the General web sitemap option and in the box paste this code :

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

If your blog has more than 100 posts click Add a Sitemap link once more and paste this code :

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

If your blog has more than 200 posts repeat above to add athird sitemap and paste this code :

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

Save your sitemaps and visit the site again after some time to check that they have been verified as shown in picture below :





THE PREFERRED DOMAIN PROBLEM

Another problem may arise in adding a sitemap if you have chosen a preferred domain name for your site in Google webmasters Sitemaps Tools. For example you may have chosen :

http://www.MYBLOG.blogspot.com

instead of :

http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com

In such cases you will have to add the preferred domain as a new site to Google Webmasters Dashboard using the Add a Site box and then add a sitemap to the preferred domain.

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