Submit Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools

How to add a website or a blog sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools for self-hosted wordpress blog, wordpress.com and blogger.com blogspot based weblog. This tutorial is part of SEO guide and tutorial series.

CONTENTS

1. Sitemap for Self-Hosted WordPress
2. Sitemap for Blogger Blogspot
3. Sitemap for WordPress.com

You may want to Submit your blog and Sitemap to Yahoo Site Explorer and Bing Search as well.

I. For Self-Hosted WordPress Blog

Assuming that you have installed Sitemap Plugins (if not, download and install it first)

Follow these steps:

1. Login to your Google account and go to Google Webmaster Tools.
2. Add your site to Google by filling in your URL (example: http://www.fatihsyuhud.com) and clicking on Add Site Site -> click Continue.
3. Validate that you are the owner by uploading HTML verification[1] using Filezilla FTP Client or putting Meta Tag verification code  given into the header of your blog / website or adding DNS record into your domain.
4. Click on your site URL and then Submit Sitemap.
5. Type in the URL of your sitemap (Example, http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/sitemap.xml).  Click Submit Sitemap.
6. Google will check the sitemap and begin indexing your site as soon as it’s determined the sitemap has no errors.

II. For Blogger.com Blogspot

1. Follow steps #1 & #2
2. Put the Meta Tag verification code into your blogger.com header at login -> Layout -> Edit HTML -> put between < head > and </head>. The code looks like this: <meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”Ru9Bp7l9nTG_mpcfYqUlBTqtOt4zU3LCBSxOfI5ZlOg” />
3. Click Save Template.
4. Now, back to Google Webmaster Tools and click on your site URL and then Submit Sitemap.
5. Type in the URL of your sitemap i.e. the feed of your blogspot blog (Example, http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full. Click Submit Sitemap.
6. Google will check the sitemap and begin indexing your site as soon as it’s determined the sitemap has no errors.

III. For WordPress.com Blog

1. Follow steps #1 & 2
2. Put the Google Meta Tag verfication code into your wordpress.com admin at login -> Tools / Perkakas -> Tools / Perkakas -> Google  -> put the Meta Tag code in the box. The meta tag looks like this: <meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”Ru9Bp7l9nTG_mpcfYqUlBTqtOt4zU3LCBSxOfI5ZlOg” />
3. Click Save Change or Simpan Perubahan. Done.
4. Now, back to Google Webmaster Tools and click on your site URL and then Submit Sitemap.
5. Type in the URL of your sitemap i.e.sitemap.xml.  (Example, http://farzanesfandiar.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml). Click Submit Sitemap.
6. Google will check the sitemap and begin indexing your site as soon as it’s determined the sitemap has no errors.
7. Done.

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Notes:

[1] (a) In most cases, uploading HTML verification is the only way the verfication works. Verification through Meta Tag or DNS are not working; (b) Upload the verification code into your host at –/public_html/–put it here–