We just covered importance of Sitemaps for blogs - websites and 15+ Tools to Create Sitemap of a blog or website. None of the tool listed there will be of use to you, if you are using Blogger as your blogging platform.
Why? Blogger automatically creates sitemap for every Blogger Blog. As pointed by Google Webmaster Help Center, Blogger even submits Sitemap for you.
So, ideally if you run a Blogger blog you don’t have to do anything. However, if you still want to submit your blog sitemap to any other 3rd party service, here is the default sitemap URL:
- http://www.blogname.blogpost.com/rss.xml and
- http://www.blogname.blogpost.com/atom.xml
In case you use blogging platform other than Blogger, then check tools to create Sitemap. Thanks to Arpit for pointing this out!
July 8th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Hi ! I got this idea earlier and submitted both sitemaps to Google , But it started showing errors !
Well , one can try “atom.xml?redirect=false” in place of atom.xml !
Also , a bad side : : it holds just 25 recent URLs and not all the posts ! God !
July 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
By default, atom.xml only contains 25 posts. If you want you increase the number of posts in your atom.xml, change your URL to:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
This will give you 100 posts. I think blogger has a limit on the number of posts in your atom.xml file, but I am not sure what it is.
If you have more than 100 posts, simply add another URL to get the next batch:
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=200
I hope you get the idea.
August 10th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
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