This series is the only thing you will need while starting new blogs. It will include every single SEO detail required to set your blogs go viral. From sitemap submission to crawling errors, you will find solution for all your problems. I personally apply this technique for my blog and blogs of my clients. I will share how to add noindex and nofollow link elements to categories and archives correctly because a lot of miss-information is hovering in blogosphere related to these terms. I am sure this series will play an important role in making SEO no less than a fun.
Why Does Google Indexes Limited Pages?
When you submit your sitemap at Google webmaster account, you might have observed that only 26 URLs are shown to be indexed and not the remaining URLs on your blog. If you have more than 26 posts on your blog then Google wont be able to index the older posts correctly. Though Google crawlers are becoming efficient day by day with auto detection of webpages but still your posts can go neglected due to growing numbers of pages uploaded daily.
This problem is related to blogspot blogs alone. Blogger though free but is highly un-optimized platform in comparison to wordpress. Google uses Atom feed in xml formats to store a backup of your posts instead of the rich RSS feed format. The sitemap is generated automatically whenever you create a new blog at blogger and displays a list of only first 26 pages of your blog. This can effect your crawl rate and traffic because not all your pages are indexed. Therefore to let Google access every single page of your blog we will need to submit multiple sitemaps. The procedure is really simple as discussed below:
Multiple Sitemap Generation For blogger
We will break the entire blog posts into small segments comprising of 500 posts each. Its better to submit 500 posts per sitemap for better indexing. To generate sitemaps for your blog follow these steps:
1. Go to Google.com/webmasters/tools/home
2. Login to your account
3. Click on your blog name
4. Then click on Submit a Sitemap link at the right-bottom of the page
5. There you will see a Submit a Sitemap button click on it
6. And type the following and click on Submit Sitemap button
If you have more than 500 blog then change the 1 (after index=) to 501 (now it will look like this atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500) then again copy-past and submit it
Now it will index your next 500 blog post, like this you have to do it
Suppose you have 2000+ blog post then you need to submit each line one by one
If you have any question or problem let me know.
Why Does Google Indexes Limited Pages?
When you submit your sitemap at Google webmaster account, you might have observed that only 26 URLs are shown to be indexed and not the remaining URLs on your blog. If you have more than 26 posts on your blog then Google wont be able to index the older posts correctly. Though Google crawlers are becoming efficient day by day with auto detection of webpages but still your posts can go neglected due to growing numbers of pages uploaded daily.
This problem is related to blogspot blogs alone. Blogger though free but is highly un-optimized platform in comparison to wordpress. Google uses Atom feed in xml formats to store a backup of your posts instead of the rich RSS feed format. The sitemap is generated automatically whenever you create a new blog at blogger and displays a list of only first 26 pages of your blog. This can effect your crawl rate and traffic because not all your pages are indexed. Therefore to let Google access every single page of your blog we will need to submit multiple sitemaps. The procedure is really simple as discussed below:
Multiple Sitemap Generation For blogger
We will break the entire blog posts into small segments comprising of 500 posts each. Its better to submit 500 posts per sitemap for better indexing. To generate sitemaps for your blog follow these steps:
1. Go to Google.com/webmasters/tools/home
2. Login to your account
3. Click on your blog name
4. Then click on Submit a Sitemap link at the right-bottom of the page
5. There you will see a Submit a Sitemap button click on it
6. And type the following and click on Submit Sitemap button
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500Now Google will index your recent 500 blog post
If you have more than 500 blog then change the 1 (after index=) to 501 (now it will look like this atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500) then again copy-past and submit it
Now it will index your next 500 blog post, like this you have to do it
Suppose you have 2000+ blog post then you need to submit each line one by one
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500If your sitemap status change to green that means your sitemap is successfully submitted to Google for indexing, but if it get change to red instead of green then check the text whether you have copy-past or typed it correctly or not (there should be no blank SPACE). Even you can check it by typing anyone of those lines after your blog URL in your Web Browser address bar.
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1501&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=2001&max-results=500
If you have any question or problem let me know.
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