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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Blogger Tip, A better Sitemap for Indexing

Google's Blogger has a sitemap called Atom.xml that people use to submit to search engines.  The problem is the default Atom.xml sitemap file only displays roughly 25 of the most recent pages of your blog.  This is bad if you want your whole blog indexed if you have more than 25 entries.

There is a solution, but it will require you to create multiple sitemaps with each sitemap containing roughly 500 entries.

In the following example 3 sitemaps are created and each sitemap will contain up to 500 blog entries.

http://name of blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
http://name of blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
http://name of blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

If more sitemaps are needed just add 500 the index count (1501, 2001, ...)

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