Submit Your Blog Sitemap To Google For Better SEO

 Submit Your Blog Sitemap To Google For Better SEO 

Sitemap is an XML file that is full of your individual webpage’s URLs. It’s like an archive of every webpage in your website. This file should be easily discoverable in your site in order for search engine crawlers to stumble upon it.

Search engines should see all the pages that you want them to see. The more pages that they index from you, the more trust your site gains. It only means that your website has more information to offer.Because XML sitemaps serve as a set of recommended links to crawl, any noncanonical URLs should be excluded from the XML sitemap. Any URLs that have been disallowed in the robots.txt file — such as secure ecommerce pages, duplicate content, and print and email versions of pages — should also not be included in the XML sitemap.

Submitting Blog Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tool

• In order to submit your blog sitemap to Google first log-in to your Google Webmaster account using your gmail id.
• After signing to your Webmaster account you will see your blog URL ther just click on it and proceed to next step.

• Now click on Optimization >> Sitemap which you will find on left sidebar.

• Now you will see red button with text "ADD/TEST SITEMAP", Click on it.
• After clicking on it a text box will appear paste below code there and click on Submit Sitemap Button.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

• The above sitemap is for up to 500 posts, You can change it value according to post on your blog if your blog is having more than 500 post then increase its value and if your blog is having less than 500 post then leave it as it is.
• Refresh your webmaster tool and you will see total no. of post that are submitted to Google from your blog.

Submit / Add Your Website Or Blog To Alexa

Submit / Add Your Website Or Blog To Alexa 

How to Add your blogspot to Alexa

Alexa is regarded as the leading website statistics provider company with authentic ranking tools online. Alexa provides free traffic data, global rankings and other information about millions of blogs and websites on the Internet. Alexa is one of the tools advertisers use before they choose a blog/website to advertise on since they can easily predict a blog/website traffic through it.

Today, I want to share how anyone can easily submit their blog/website to Alexa with full image tutorial for easy understanding.

Step How to Add & Submit Blog/Website to Alexa

==> Go to www.alexa.com and click on create an account.

==> Now fill in the registration box with valid email & Nickname or register with your Facebook account by selecting “Login with Facebook”

==> Now go to your email inbox and search for alexa confirmation message, then click on the link provided in the email to activate your account.

==> After clicking the activation link, you will be taken to a page where you will be allowed to set a password of your choice for your account.

==> Now click on dashboard link.

==> Click “+ Add a Site” button at the right bottom of dashboard page.

==> Now select the plan of your choice. I recommend the free plan.

==> Enter your blog/website address in the appropriate place and then click continue.

==> You need to verify the ownership of the blog or website by “Uploading a file to your website/blog” or “Add your Alexa verification ID to the home page of your blog/website”.

==> If you are using blogger, go to your blog dashboard >> Template >> Edit HTML, Search for tag, then copy and paste the code after opening tag section. Finally, go back to alexa and click on “Verify my Id” button.

Now that you’re done with the registration and verification process, check back alexa after some days to check if your blog/website has been rank. You can check that by including your website URL to this link http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/YOUR BLOG/WEBSITE URL

How to Submit URL to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask

How to Submit URL to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask

The first step to getting your site online and to get better rankings in Google is to submit your URL to search engines. An example of an URL is www.yoursite.com. Eventually the search engines will find your site but this will help expedite the process.
Once you submit your URL, it could take several days, weeks, or months for the search engines to index your page(s). Results may vary so don’t write this in stone. Factors such as other websites pointing to your site can affect this time as well.

Submit your URL to Google:

1. Go to the following link: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
2. Type in your URL, example: http://www.yoursite.com
3. Enter comments about your site. This is optional. Usually I enter the genre of the site and a few keywords. Example: Website design in Hollister, CA.
4. Enter the captcha text shown in the box
5. Select “Add URL”

Submit your URL to Bing:

1. Go to the following link: http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
2. Enter the captcha text shown in the box
3. Type in your URL, example: http://www.yoursite.com
4. Select “Submit URL”

Submit your URL to Yahoo:

**UPDATED NOVEMBER 2012**
1. Go to the following link: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
2. Click on “Submit Your Site for Free”
3. You will be redirected to Bing. Follow the on-screen instructions for submitting your URL.

Submit your Sitemap to Ask:

**UPDATED AUGUST 2012**
Ask does not have an URL submit feature. Until recently, you could submit your sitemap to them. But Ask.com has now retired this feature and says they will be crawling sites instead. So, the next best thing is to add a directive in your robots.txt file that specifies auto-discovery of the XML sitemap.
Like this:

SITEMAP: http://www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml

The sitemap location should be the full sitemap URL.
That’s it! Once you complete the above steps, just sit back and be patient. It takes time for the search engines to index your pages. If you submit more than once, some search engines may consider this spamming which could result in not indexing your site at all.

Do Not Use an Automated Submission Program

Using an automated submission program to submit to multiple search engines at once may be considered spam attempts and is frowned upon by search engines such as Google.
Also note that you do not have to add all of your URL addresses for your entire site. For example, you do not need to add http://www.yoursite.com/about.hml and http://www.yoursite.com/contact.hml. Simply enter the home page URL and let the engines do the rest.