Before, submission of your sitemaps to search engines, firstly, you should consider to submit your sit to search engines like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Bing & MSN.
When you submit your site or blog to search engines, then search
engines will start to index your sites When your sites indexed by search
engines, it may take some search result ranking positions for your
targeted keywords. The more you have quality content, the more rankings
your site would get. Now, whenever you write new post to your blog, it
doesn't mean that the search engines crawler will come up to your blog
and it would index your blog post. The crawling rate is decided by the
search engines. You have to wait for indexing the new content to search
engines until the crawler reaches to your blog again. The one simple
solution is submit your sitemap to major search engines by their
webmaster tools so that whenever you published any article on your blog,
they might be notify and index your article as soon as possible.
Therefore, here is a guide to
Sitemap Google/Bing/Yahoo/Altavista/MSN for blogger
To submit sitemap to Google, you will have a sitemap for your website. If you are using Blogger, have a look of Blogger default sitemap URLs.
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated or
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml or
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/rss.xml
The default Blogger sitemap URLs will have the latest 25 post URLs. It
means when you published 26th post into your Blogger blog, the Blogger
sitemap still keep 25 latest post URLs so the oldest post would be
removed automatically from its sitemap.
If you are using default sitemap for your Blogger into webmaster tools,
the oldest posts excluding the latest 25 posts will not be present in
your sitemap. You will always view 25 submitting URLs, and 25 indexed
posts inside your webmaster tools. This is the common mistake to
choosing the default Blogger sitemap URL. You may try any sitemap URLs
mention above for your Blogger blog which have more than 25 blog posts.
You could find the difference yourself.
If you want to index entire URLs of your Blogger, use the following sitemap URLs.
Before submitting your sitemap to Google, you have to verify your ownership for your domain to Google webmaster tools.
To submit your sitemap to Google, go to
Google Webmaster Tools and sign in with your Google account and follow the steps as the following preview.
Click on 1. Add a site, 2.URL field and type your blogger URL. Finally, go for 3. Continue. Now, you have to very your Blogger domain ownership. Choose Add a meta tag to your site's home page under Alternate methods and 2. copy the meta code.
Go to
Blogger Dashboard --> Template(Under More options 
) --> Edit HTML. Click anywhere on the Blogger source code, and press Ctrl+F to find
<head> tag, and paste your copied meta code just below to
<head> tag. Finally, save your template.
Now again go to the owner ship page in Google
and then click on
Verify. If you have done all the steps correctly, then you will be verified by Google.
Now, go to your
Google Webmaster Tool home page and click on your blog URL for which you want to add sitemap -->
Crawl (See left panel) -->
Sitemaps --> click on
ADD/TEST SITEMAP, type the following code.
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Now, click on
Submit Sitemap. Once
you done all these steps correctly, then your sitemap will be
successfully submitted to Google. After some days, you can track how
many pages currently submitted and index by Google via the sitemap.
** Note something about the sitemap code,
start-index=1 tells to search engine that, there must be start
indexing from the very newest post and
max-results=500 means search engines will
indexed upto 500 posts start from the
start-index [newest posts --> older posts ]. You can also view a live example by using the following code into your browser.
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=3&max-results=4
Make sure to change the blog URL with your blog URL. By using the above
sitemap URL, you will see 3rd post from the newest post upto 7th post
which is incremented by 4 from the s
tart-index.
***
Please note that the sitemap which I used for submission is
only for the bloggers who have less than 500 posts. If you have more
than 500 posts then no problem you can additionally add your second
sitemap for indexing your posts in the future, by adding.
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
Update: You may also use
sitemap.xml too as it seems to have all the post URLs.
The above code means that Google will start indexing of your posts from
501th post to the next 500 posts i.e., totally up to 1000 posts. If you
have more than 1000 posts, then similarly you can add an additional
sitemap in which you have to start your index as start-index=1001 to
max-results=500, that is totally up to 1500 posts.
***Since
AOL uses
Google for organic search, so if your sites or blogs are being
indexed in Google, then
AOL will grab your blog automatically.
Submission of Sitemap To Bing/Yahoo/Altavista & MSN
If you want
to submit sitemap to Bing, then you have two options
for your sitemap submission, one is instantly which takes a little bit
time, I would prefer to go with second option via Bing webmaster tool
which takes some time, but you can know more about your site that how
Bing treats with your blog or site.
So, the
first method is, copy the below code,
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.YourBlogName.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
don't forget to change URL with your blogger blog in the above code. Now
paste the entire code to your browser and hit enter. If you are
successful, you will see a message "Thanks for submitting your sitemap".
Now it will take some days for action.
The
second method (recommended method)
- Sign into Bing Webmastool Tools.
- Type your blog URL, and hit on ADD site. Now, in the next window,
you will have an option to add your sitemap during the verify process. I
would recommend you to type your Blogger sitemap URL too. Just paste
your sitemap URL, look on the above article and copy the suggested
sitemap URL as you have used for Google webmaster tool. Finally, click
on Add.
- In the next screen, you will have to verify ownership of the blog,
you submitted. Bing gives you three options to verify your blog. If your
blog is hosted on blogger, you should use the second method i.e., Meta
tag. Just copy the meta tag only as mention in the following preview,
and don't close the window as we will use this window later.
- Now, paste this meta tag to your Blogger source code as you had done
for Google webmaster tools. You may read again the above section for
placing the code into your Blogger source code.
- Once you have place meta tag to your Blogger dashboard, now again go
to the Bing webmaster tools page, and scroll down the page. Finally,
click on Verify.
- If all is going well, you will redirected to the Bing Dashboard, where you will see your sitemap status 'SUCCESS'.
***Since
MSN uses
Bing for organic search so if your site or blog have indexed in Bing, then you would also see your blog in
MSN,
from 30 November, 2015 Yahoo completed algorithmic transition into Bing
webmaster tool so if you submitted your sitemap to Bing, then you
don't need to submit sitemap to Yahoo. Altavista uses Yahoo Search
Technology for organic search so, you don't need to submit sitemap to
Altavista too.
How To Submit Sitemap to ASK:
Update: ASK doesn't have any submission feature to index your site in
their search. Instead of it, you may add your sitemap URL to your
robots.txt file which is also good for any search engines since all the
search engines respect robots.txt rules. By default, Blogger has
robots.txt file that also containing your sitemap URL too. If you want
to view your sitemap URL, Just add
robots.txt at the end of your homepage URL to view the document in your robots.txt file.
