A Sitemap is basically an xml file which consists of all the crawled pages of your blog or website. This helps your blog to get visible in search engines which in turn gets you good traffic. Of course just submitting a sitemap is not at all sufficient to get the desired traffic. There are many other strategies to get good traffic. These techniques and strategies are called Search Engine Optimization techniques or simply SEO techniques. Google bots utilise the submitted sitemap to crawl through your blog and see to it that your blog gets visible to search engines. So now I am going to give you the steps on how to create and submit a sitemap of your website or blog.
There are many websites available which can generate a sitemap for your blog for free. I generally use this website for creating the sitemap since it is easier to use and also it comes with inbuilt instructions for what to do next. So go to their website and enter the full address of your blog or website and click Generate. This generates an xml file for the crawlers to crawl your site. Now that a sitemap is created, Login to your webmaster tools. In the dashboard on your left, click on crawl, in that go to Sitemaps. Before submitting the sitemap directly, it is advisable to test the sitemap for any errors. For this, click on test sitemap and enter the URL of your sitemap. Generally the URL looks like this http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml. click on test sitemap. If no errors are generated, then you can click on submit sitemap and enter the URL and click submit. Now the sitemap has been submitted successfully. There are many other options in the webmaster dashboard which may be quite confusing for newbie bloggers. I am going to write an in depth article about each and every option available. If you are having any issues, you can put them in the comment section below.
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