A Sitemap is a list of the pages of a website or a blog available to the search engine crawlers or the users of the website. It can be either in the form of a document that is further used as a web tool or a webpage that lists down all the webpages of the site generally in a hierarchical manner. This helps the search engines and most importantly the users to find related pages on the website. In my opinion they are the best ways to optimize your website or blog for the search engines.
If you use google's webmaster tools to index your site on google, you must be familiar with the procedure of submitting the sitemap. Its a simple process where you only need to add sitemap.xml as your website's sitemap file and submit it. But in a blog this is not the case. The sitemap.xml file does not exist. Here is the process to find the sitemap for your blog. Type in the address bar the URL of your blog followed by "robots.txt". e.g., If the address of your blog is
http://myindiagoesblogging.blogspot.com
then you must type in your browser's address bar:
http://myindiagoesblogging.blogspot.com/robots.txt.
Once you have done this, you will see some text in your browser. In it you will clearly see the URL of your sitemap. Simply copy this URL and paste in your webmaster tools. The tool will verify your sitemap for sure.
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