Blogger blogs are frequently indexed by Google, however if you've just created a new blog and you want to make sure that it is is indexed by Google, you can use Google Webmaster Tools.
=> Google webmaster tools setup guide
Google Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages' visibility on Google. To get started, simply add and verify your site and you'll start to see information right away.
1- Go to the following address and sign in with your Google account:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
2- Click on "Add a Site" button to add your blog.
3- A small box will appear, enter your blog URL in it.
4- Now you need to proof that you really are the owner of this blog, for this you need to verify.
5- Chose "Meta Tag" as verification method and copy the tag which looks something like this:
<meta name="verify-v1" content="z6MLWEMxLvMFcoVNvGPKOMvAn1oJBKem+eTEpZ1F/DU=">
6- Now come back to your Blogger account and go to "Layout" -> "Edit HTML" section.
7- Paste the Meta Tag right after <head> tag, the <head> tag is in the start of your code just after a few lines.
8- Once you've pasted the code, click on "Save Template" button to save your changes.
Warning: You might see an error like this:
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The element type "meta" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".
Don't worry if you see such error, simply add / before > and save again.
Tip: Optionally, you can also add the following tag, so that when Google crawls your blog, it will completely index your site and follow all links in your blog.
<meta name="robots" content="INDEX, FOLLOW">
9- Now again go to you "Webmaster Tools" account and click on "verify" button to complete verification process.
10- If you've done everything right, you'll see that you're site is verified now.
Warning: Don't remove the Meta Tag after verification process, it might be checked again.
11- Expand the option "Site configuration" which is on the left side.
12- Click on "Sitemaps" and then click on "Submit a Sitemap" button and a small window will appear which will already have http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/ and in the empty area of the box, you'll type "rss.xml". Final result would be
13- You're done now, I've told you the best possible way to get fully indexed by Google and of course if you're good with Google then you'll get a lot of traffic.
5 comments:
THanks a ton dude...
prax
www.geeksthoughts.blogspot.com
Thank you so much for the response. I really appreciate it.
i've been searching for ages how to set up webmaster. all sorted now-big help! thanks!
Thankx alot it worked first time.. it took me an hour to find a solution lol.!
Thanks, the verification worked out but submitting a site with "rss.xml" is giving the same problem, do i have to give "rss.xml" with the url before or after the address. thanks
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