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Because theres many bloggers newbie that was comfuse about submitting their website/blobs to google wbmasters tools. Also this part would discuss the reasons on why only the latest 26 pages of your blog are indexed upon sitemap submission at Google but not your entire post pages. We will also offer a solution to this. From sitemap submission to crawling errors, you will find solution for all your problems.

I personally apply this technique for my blog and blogs of my clients. I will share how to add noindex and nofollow link elements to categories and archives correctly because a lot of miss-information is hovering in blogosphere related to these terms.

Why Does Google Indexes Limited Pages?
When you submit your sitemap at Google webmaster account, you might have observed that only 26 URLs are shown to be indexed and not the remaining URLs on your blog.


If you have more than 26 posts on your blog then Google wont be able to index the older posts correctly. Though Google crawlers are becoming efficient day by day with auto detection of webpages but still your posts can go neglected due to growing numbers of pages uploaded daily. This problem is related to blogspot blogs alone.

Blogger though free but is highly un- optimized platform in comparison to wordpress. Google uses Atom feed in xml formats to store a backup of your posts instead of the rich RSS feed format. The sitemap is generated automatically whenever you create a new blog at blogger and displays a list of only first 26 pages of your blog.

This can effect your crawl rate and traffic because not all your pages are indexed. Therefore to let Google access every single page of your blog we will need to submit multiple sitemaps. The procedure is really simple as discussed below:

Multiple Sitemap Generation For blogger

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Now I will break the entire blog posts into small segments comprising of 500 posts each. Its better to submit 500 posts per sitemap for better indexing.

To generate sitemaps for your blog follow these steps:

1. Go and check your blogger dashboard to see how many posts have you written so far.

2. Count total number posts. The count is visible just below your blog title on your dashboard.

3. If your total post count is less than 500 then you must submit the following sitemap:

For Blogs that have posts less than 500 you can use this below code:

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

Also if your post count is more than 500 but less than 1000 then submit the following two sitemaps instead:

For Blogs with posts less than 1000 use this below code

==>> atom.xml?redirect=false&start- index=1&max-results=500
==>> atom.xml?redirect=false&start- index=501&max-results=500

For Blogs with posts less than 1500:

==>> atom.xml?redirect=false&start- index=1&max-results=500
==>> atom.xml?redirect=false&start- index=501&max-results=500
==>> atom.xml?redirect=false&start- index=1001&max-results=500

Similarly if your post count is greater than 1000 but less than 1500 then you will submit the following sitemaps and so on.

Now you have successfully generated or created the sitemaps of your blog google webmaster tools. Lets know submit them to Google.

Now Submit the Sitemaps Youve Just Generated
1. Go To Google Webmasters.
2. You will see list of all blogs that you created at blogger, Choose your main blog
3. You are now on the Dashboard page where you can see reports related to crawl errors, search queries and sitemaps.
4. Click the More » Link just under the sitemaps report.
5. Towards top right side, click the ADD/TEST SITEMAP button.
6. In the empty blank paste your first sitemap and then click "Submit Sitemap". Repeat this step for remaining sitemaps until you have finished submitting all the sitemaps that you generated.


7. Now Google will take at most three days to crawl and index every single page of your blog. After 1-3 days you will find that all URLS that you submitted are successfully indexed.

As you can see in the screenshot above that I have submitted three sitemaps instead of two. The last one which contains 26 URLs is an optional one because we already contained our first 26 URLs under the 500 limit.

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Since the total number of my posts plus pages are 163 therefore I submitted the following two sitemaps accordingly ==>> atom.xml?redirect=false&start- index=1&max-results=500

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