What is meant by sitemap?

A sitemap is one of the most important tools for webmasters. It allows a webmaster to generate the entire pages of a website which is pointed out by a single XML file.

This sitemap XML file tells search engines about all the pages of an entire website and make it available for the search engines to crawl through those pages and index them so that they can be displayed in search results. A search engine robot does crawl a website on its own, but having a sitemap will help if it misses any page. A sitemap is highly required for maximum exposure.

Sitemaps are highly recommended by popular search engines like Google and Bing. In Google Webmaster Tools as well as Bing Webmaster Tools, there are places to submit XML sitemaps. Then those webmaster tools will display the total links which have been submitted with the sitemap. There is even an option to see the number of URLs of a particular sitemap which has been crawled and listed in for search results.

A custom sitemap XML file cannot be uploaded to Blogger. Because Blogger does not support uploading a sitemap that is generated externally. So, we have to make use of Blogger's internal features to generate a sitemap. And luckily, Blogger or sitemaps can be easily generated.....Continue reading