How to submit your Blog sitemap to Google Webmaster Tool

by Harsh Agrawal on July 23, 2009

in Wordpress

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We have already spoken about Google XML sitemap Essential wordpress plugin, to generate your XML sitemap.

I hope you have installed Google XML sitemap plugin, Now Go to

Settings > XML-Sitemap

Check if your website sitemap is build or not.

Other method by which you can verify is, open this link (Replace Shoutmeloud with your domain name)

http://www.shoutmeloud.com/sitemap.xml

If you see every thing without any problem. You can continue with submitting your sitemap to Google webmaster tool.

How to Submit Sitemap?

Open Google webmaster tool, sign up by using your domain email address, or your Gmail address or create one new Gmail address. Verify your account and signup using new credential.

Once you will login to your Google webmaster tool, it will give you an option to submit your website/blog.

Click on continue and in the next page it will give you two options to verify.

Add Meta tag
Upload a file

In my case I will prefer uploading file into my FTP server. Once you have uploaded the file click on verify. You can take help of Filezilla Free FTP client to upload your file into your website.

If you have done everything as I have mentioned, You will get a confirmation message on Next screen. look at the right bottom, where you will see an option to submit the sitemap.

Now Google crawlers will take a day or two to crawl your website using Google webmaster tool.

Do let us know if you find any trouble with submitting sitemap or Google webmaster tool.

Tagged as: Google XML sitemap, how to, search engine optimization, SEO, webmaster tool, Wordpress

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1 S.K SHARMA July 23, 2009 at 12:48: Hi Harsh,
Really best tip for Sitemap creation.Thanks a lot for this tip and keep it up.
.-= S.K SHARMA ´s last blog ..Why Do You Blog? =-.

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2 George Serradinho July 23, 2009 at 17:54: A nice little tip. I had actually done this ages ago, but it’s nice for the newbies that have not yet done it.
.-= George Serradinho ´s last blog ..Funny: Yoga for Drunks =-.

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3 Chethan July 24, 2009 at 19:09: Thank You So Much Bro!
Actually I had trouble in submitting because i had put the domain name as http://chaaps.com instead of http://www.chaaps.com That is why google had rejected my Sitemap. Now Everything is working YoYo!
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.-= Chethan ´s last blog ..Vodafone Dog Helping the Girl in Baking: Happy To Help TV Advertisement =-.

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4 sambit July 28, 2009 at 17:24: my site url is without www

so i submited sitename.org/sitemap.xml

but google showing this error

We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.
.-= sambit ´s last blog ..Star Jalsha Entertainment Award “ PERFORMENCES ~ High Quality Videos * FUNDL EXCLUSIVE RELEASE ** =-.

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5 Aidil Sharizaq July 31, 2009 at 14:52: Thanks the best explanation ever.So simple.Already submitted mine.everything is goin ok
.-= Aidil Sharizaq ´s last blog ..Taking Your Mind Off And Move On (Handling Rejection) =-.

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6 mostlyBlog August 25, 2009 at 11:36: harsh , my site is submitted to Google but i didn’t see my any post in Google search what is the reason behind it?
.-= mostlyBlog ´s last blog ..Download TeamViewer =-.

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