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Hello folks,
I searched it in google but the explanations I got there were far above my small brain. So, anybody kind enough to explain in layman's terminologies how to create a sitemap for my blogs...yes both of them are under blogger dot com....
[Smile and cheers]
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ok i teach you to create site map... simpley go to webmaster tools->crawl->submit sitemap->Go to Add Test sitempa and add the following atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500.... Submit and enjoy google will index your blog after some time... first it shows pending after some time it shows .... url indexed...
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Thanks a lot Ramesh... your advice clicked! Can you kindly guide me what should be my next approach? [hesitant]
Dude.. Signatures and URL are not allowed in IndiForum...
Bro ur sitemaps are simple
1. www.traveljerry.com/sitemap.xml or traveljerry.com/sitemap.xml
2. www.anunoy.com/sitemap.xml or anunoy.com/sitemap.xml
@ Vijay Those url's do not exist. 
Yep sorry I forgot it was a custom domain :D Anunoy you take this down >
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=500&max-results=1000
add this one at a time in front of traveljerry and anunoy.com The Sitemap window will look like this
http://awesomescreenshot.com/00b1mp5785
VP didn't I tell you that those URLs didn't work? [Grrrrr.....]
sorry vishal i don't know about that... from now i am not posting signatures and url's...
Nandini: a sitemap is a list of pages of a website or a blog that helps users or crawlers to access your website... to see any website sitemap www.anysite.com/sitemap.xml
blogspot blogs also has sitemaps?
Blogspot blogs do have have a special sitemap but the feed itself can be used as a sitemap as it contained a list of the url's of your blog posts.
yes blogspot blogs are alsohaving sitemaps.. see my above comment..there i discussed how to submit sitemap in blogspot blogs...
Those are not true sitemaps. They are feeds which can be used as sitemaps.
A sitemap in general doesn't include text from the article while a feed does.
When I submitted sitemap for my TravelJerry, they said 51 pages submitted when I have 55 posts! Why would it be so...any idea guys? [sad]
@ Jerry ( ) But your blog Archive gadget says 50 posts. 
I think some of those 55 posts are in draft.
you got a problem with Jerry [Grrrrrr]
yes now i remember they were sponsored posts, so I had hidden them later [smile]
Ranjith you are getting better and better Jerry is perfect name for Anunoy 'Doc' Samanta
Sorry read that as anunoy dot samanta
right ranjith either 4 articles are deleted or in draft,,,, or you blocked them from webmaster tools...
thanks Monu..... any further tip to this newbie is most welcome [smile]
Nadini and everyone, just wanted to clarify that Site Map is not only the XML we use to submit to Google.
Site Map is a overall picture of how the site has been laid out.. what sections, sub-sections and pages for someone to get a bird's eye-view. Many of the top Corporate / User help websites in the world have a site map section. Here is an example of Site map on Infosys website.
The XML (eXtensible Markup Language) coded Site Map is a file that lists down all pages on the site, including sections and feeds to the Google Bot. This makes life easy for Google Bot and other similar robots/crawlers by telling them that you have X number of posts, and where they are. The Robots/Crawler then crawls to each of these pages and saves relevant information to their servers to help search functions.
Your XML Sitemaps contiain following information:
It is always advisable to have your Sitemap updated to the T. If you do not have a site map updated to the latest changes, chances are that the Robots/Crawler may ignore the new pages.
On self-hosted wordpress, you get plugins that can do this for you, and generate a site map daily.
Read more on http://sitemaps.org/
ok...xml thing is just showing some text..no clickable links
That is exactly how it should be.. no links will be clickable, but links would be present...
Hemal I did the sitemap thing long time back, for my homepage.
Do I need to do it again??
And what is submitting URLs to google? Is that sitemap only?
SFJ - If your Sitemap is not auto updated, then you should do it at least twice a month. I am not sure about Blogger, but for Wordpress there are plugins that do this automatically, every day.
If there is no automation on Blogger, it is best to follow the manual process - update your Site Map twice a month manually. Since your last update, there many be many more posts that you posted which do not figure in the Site Map (non-autogenerated) and hence you are at a disadvantage.
Submitting URLs to Google -
This bit means you are telling URL to Google. First, you need to inform Google that such an site exists. Even for Blogspot users, I assume. Second comes the content.
Hemal, for blogger blogs generating a sitemap is not possible ( you will have to use the feed as a sitemap )
yeh sab kya hai yaar
sitemap
There is no need of adding a sitemap if your contents are being crawled by Google. If you still want to do it, here is the process for Blogger blogs :
And it's done! 
If you have more than 500 posts, you should submit more sitempas :
... and so on ...
Now, when you post new articles on your blog and want to resubmit your sitemap
Good info Ranjith! There are a lot of things I do not know about how Blogger works.. I had left it for good, in 2007! :)
I understood it on reading your previous reply.
oh my my my...wats all these
Nandini, it's easy. But as I already said, not really required if your posts are shown when you search for a paragraph from your blog. 
If you are using Wordpress Google XML Sitemap plugin is the way to go. You just need to create XML file in the server and the plugin takes care of the rest.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/installation/