Submit Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools Bing Yahoo

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
   1. Sitemap for Blogger Blogspot
   2. Sitemap for WordPress.com
2. Submit to Bing Search
3. Submit to Yahoo Explorer
4. Create Sitemap for WordPress.com
5. Creating Sitemap for Blogger Blogspot

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–

Submit Sitemap to Bing Search

Tutorial How to add website or blog sitemap to Bing Search Engine Center for self-hosted wordpress blog, wordpress.com and blogger.com blogspot and other blogging platforms (Typepad, Movable Type, etc). This tutorial is part of SEO Guide and Tips series.

You may also want to submit your blog/website sitemap to Google Webmaster and Yahoo! Site Explorer.

I. For Self-Hosted WordPress Blog

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

Then follow these steps:

Login to your Windows Live account and go to Bing Webmaster Center.
Add your site to Bing by filling in your URL (Example: http://www.fatihsyuhud.com). Click Submit site.
Put the Bing verification code Meta Tag into your blog header or just upload the XML File in the root (-/public_html/–put-it-here–) using FTP.
Click Verify my site now -> Bing will say “Verified” if there’s no error.
Click Add Sitemaps. Example: http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/sitemap.xml.
Click Submit. Done.

II. For Blogger.com Blogspot Blog

Login to your Windows Live account or Hotmail and go to Bing Webmaster Center.
Add your site to Bing by filling in your Blogger Blogspot URL (Example: http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com) -> Click Submit site.
Put the Meta Tag verification code into your blogger.com header at login -> Layout -> Edit HTML -> put between < head > and . The code looks like this:
Click Save Template.
Click Verify my site now -> Bing will say “Verified” if there’s no error.
Click Add Sitemaps. Example: http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com/atom.xml.
Click Submit. Done.

III. For WordPress.com

Login to your Windows Live account or Hotmail and go to Bing Webmaster Center.
Add your site to Bing by filling in your URL (Example: http://afatih.wordpress.com) -> Click Submit site.
Put the Bing Meta Tag verfication code into your wordpress.com admin at login -> Tools / Perkakas -> Tools / Perkakas -> Bing Webmaster Center. The code you enter into the box, should look like this: CCF722265F7F37EA03C459B639540151 -> Click Save Change or Simpan Perubahan.
Click Verify my site now -> Bing will say “Verified” if there’s no error.
Click Add Sitemaps. Example: http://afatih.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml.
Click Submit. Done.

Tutorial in Pictures

1. Add website to Bing Sitemap Center

Add website to Bing Sitemap Center

2. Verify your ownership. Use option 1 for self-hosted wordpress blog. Use option 2 for wordpress.com or Blogger Blogspot. Verify to Bing for site ownership

Submit Sitemap to Yahoo Site Explorer

How to add and submit website or blog sitemap to Yahoo Search Engine for self-hosted wordpress blog, wordpress.com and blogger.com blogspot based weblog. This tutorial is part of SEO Guide and Tips series.

You may want to Submit your Sitemap to Bing Search and Google Webmaster Tools 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:

Login to your Yahoo! account and go to Yahoo! Site Explorer.
Add your site to Yahoo! by filling in your URL (example: http://www.fatihsyuhud.com) and clicking on Add My Site.
Validate that you are the owner by putting Meta Tag verification code given into the header of your blog / website.
Click on your site URL and then on the feeds link in the right column.
Type in the URL of your sitemap (Example, http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/sitemap.xml), and leave the drop-down as “Web Site Feed”. Click Add Feed.
Yahoo! 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

Follow steps at I #1 & I #2
Put the Meta Tag verification code into your blogger.com header at login -> Layout -> Edit HTML -> put between < head > and
Click Save Template.

Now, back to Yahoo! Site Explorer and click on your site URL and then Submit Sitemap.
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.
Yahoo! 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

Follow steps at I #1 & I #2
Put the Yahoo! Meta Tag verfication code into your wordpress.com admin at login -> Tools / Perkakas -> Tools / Perkakas -> Yahoo! Site Explorer -> put the Meta Tag code in the box.
Click Save Change or Simpan Perubahan.
Now, back to Yahoo! Site Explorer and click on your site URL and then Submit Sitemap.
Type in the URL of your sitemap i.e.sitemap.xml. (Example, http://farzanesfandiar.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml). Click Submit Sitemap.
Yahoo! will check the sitemap and begin indexing your site as soon as it’s determined the sitemap has no errors.

Create Sitemap for WordPress.com

Google sitemap wordpress.comHow to create a sitemap for WordPress.com and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools.

Creating a sitemap for a self-hosted wordpress blog is easy. All you need is installing Google XML Sitemap Plugins. Activate it. And you’re done. But how to make a sitemap for a wordpress.com blog? Can we do it? The answer is yes. You can create a wordpress.com’s sitemap. Here’s how:

If you don’t have CATEGORIES included in your sidebar, go to your Sidebar Widgets editor and include it.
Open a page of your blog up so that you can see the CATEGORIES sidebar with all the categories listed.
Carefully highlight all of the categories in the CATEGORIES box and copy them to the clipboard.
Press CTRL-C for PC.
Press CMD-C for Mac.
Open the Manage Pages part of your Dashboard and create a new page.
Paste the contents of the clipboard into the editor.
Press CTRL-V for PC.
Press CMD-V for Mac.
Edit the list as you see fit.
Remove extraneous categories like “Uncategorized.”
Create a “Recommended” or “Most Popular” list of categories above or in place of the alphabetized list.
Add static, descriptive text before or after the list.
Bold certain categories to make them stand out.
Name the page and save it.
If you don’t want to have a separate sidebar listing of categories, go back and remove the CATEGORIES Sidebar Widget.

Don’t forget that pages created in this way are NOT self-updating like the CATEGORIES widget in the sidebar. You’ll have to redo the entire process every time you add a new category to any post, or you’ll have to learn how to edit the page yourself to add the category and the link.

How to submit a WordPress.com’s sitemap:

After login to your Google Webmaster Tools -> Add Your Site at ADD SITE.
Click the ubmitted website / blog-> click Submit Sitemap.
Enter this code -> sitemap.xml -> Submit Sitemap. Done.

Creating Sitemap for Blogger Blogspot

Creating sitemap for self-hosted WordPress is easy. You just need to install Google Sitemap Plugins which you can download for free.

Make no mistake, creating a sitemap for blogger.com / blogspot is even easier if you only know how. Basically creating sitemap need two steps: (i) Verification, to verify that you own the blog and (ii) Submitting Sitemap, to tell the search engine about your blog and every articles you have written. In return, Google search will tell the world about them (your blog and the contents) after the two procedures are done.

Now, follow these simple steps if you run a blog in blogger.com / blogspot:

First step: Verification

Login to your blogger.com account.
Scroll-down and find out “Webmaster Tools” -> click it. If you coudn’t find it, click here (remeber to click this link after login to your account).
Now, you have verified your blog. Congrats!

Second step: Submit the sitemap

You now have entered into Webmaster tools area. Find your blog URL there and click it. Example, I clcik -> mysite.blogspot.com
In the Dashboard click “Site Configuration -> Sitemaps -> click “Submit a Sitemap”
There will be your blog address like http://mysite.blogspot.com/–blankboxhere–
Copy and paste this code in the blankbox -> atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
Click “Submit Sitemaps”. Done.

Congratulations! Now you have told Google search about the first 100 posts of your blog contents.

Important: If you have more than 100 articles, say 200, repeat the second step and submit another Sitemap by changing the number into 101 and 200 like this one: atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=200

Likewise, if you have 300 articles in your blog, you have to submit three sitemaps. The third sitemaps should be like this: atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=300

Repeat the process and submit more sitemaps if you have hundreds of articles or even thousands of postings.

Wish you luck!