Because there's many bloggers newbie that was comfuse about submitting their website/blobs to
google wbmasters tools. Also this part would discuss the reasons on why only the latest 26 pages of your blog are indexed upon sitemap submission at Google but not your entire post pages. We will also offer a solution to this.
From sitemap
submission to crawling errors, you will find solution for all your
problems.
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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
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Now I 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 and check your blogger
dashboard to see how many
posts have you written so far.
2. Count total number posts. The count is visible just below
your blog title on your
dashboard.
3. If your total post count is
less than 500 then you must
submit the following sitemap:
For Blogs that have posts less than 500 you can use this below code:
==>>
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-
index=1&max-results=500
Also if your post count is more than 500 but less than
1000 then submit the following
two sitemaps instead:
For Blogs with posts less than 1000 use this below code
==>>
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-
index=1&max-results=500
==>>
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-
index=501&max-results=500
For Blogs with posts less than 1500:
==>>
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-
index=1&max-results=500
==>>
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-
index=501&max-results=500
==>>
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-
index=1001&max-results=500
Similarly if your post count is
greater than 1000 but less than
1500 then you will submit the
following sitemaps and so on.
Now you have successfully
generated or created the
sitemaps of your blog google webmaster tools. Lets know submit them
to Google.
Now Submit the Sitemaps You've Just
Generated
1. Go To
Google Webmasters.
2. You will see list of all blogs that
you created at blogger, Choose
your main blog
3. You are now on the Dashboard
page where you can see reports
related to crawl errors, search
queries and sitemaps.
4. Click the More » Link just under
the sitemaps report.
5. Towards top right side, click the
ADD/TEST SITEMAP button.
6. In the empty blank paste your
first sitemap and then click
"
Submit Sitemap". Repeat this
step for remaining sitemaps until
you have finished submitting all
the sitemaps that you generated.
7. Now Google will take at most three days to crawl and
index every single page of your
blog. After 1-3 days you will find
that all URLS that you submitted
are successfully indexed.
As you can see in the screenshot
above that I have submitted
three sitemaps instead of two.
The last one which contains 26
URLs is an optional one because
we already contained our first 26 URLs under the 500 limit.
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Since the total number of my
posts plus pages are 163 therefore I submitted the
following two sitemaps
accordingly ==>>
atom.xml?redirect=false&start- index=1&max-results=500
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