How To Submit Your Blog To Google Sitemaps?

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How To Submit Your Blog To Google Sitemaps

This tip explains how to generate and submit blogger sitemap to google webmaster tools:
Before doing this,let me say what are sitemaps and how they will help us.The reason we use them is,they will help google bot to crawl,index pages of your site and tell you if there are any problems when they try to index it.It also helps you to know,how many pages exactly are indexed,and what people searched in the search engine to visit your site.
Let me explain the detailed procedure on how to submit your blogger sitemap to google.

To submit your blog/website to Google visit Google Webmaster tools.
Login into your Gmail account and you will be asked to enter your site URL.Enter your blog/website URL and click "Add Site".
Then you will have to verify your account.
There are two methods to verify your account :

-- Adding a meta tag
-- Uploading a HTML file

If your are a blogger you can use "add a meta tag option" and if not you can use second option also.

For Bloggers :

Click on Add a meta tag and you will be give a code like this :
Copy the code given by google and open Blogger.
After that click on Layout>>Edit HTML.Search for <head> and paste that meta tag code after <head>.
Save your template.
After saving go back to Google webmaster and click on verify.After verifying go to Sitemaps in the left sidebar.
Then click on Add A Sitemap.In the drop down menu it will ask you for options,but you just select "Add General Web Sitemap".
After that it will ask you to Add Sitemap URL.
There are only two ways to add a sitemap and they are :
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/rss.xml OR http://yourname.blogspot.com/atom.xml