How to add a SiteMap in Blogger !

Let me first explain you what is meant by a SiteMap? Well as the name itself suggests it is a complete map of your site or it is a directory of all the pages that are available on your website or blog.

Why is it important to add a SiteMap ?

Various search engines like Google and Bing make use of this sitemap to crawl through the pages of your blog, which might have been overlooked by the search bots. This is an important step for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of your blog.

Here's a short procedure of adding a SiteMap to your Blogger

Firstly, go to your Blogger Dashboard then to Settings -> Search Preferences 

Choose Enable Custom robots.txt (Crawling and Indexing Section)

Then you will be required to Copy the below CODE and Paste it in the field box available.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /Sitemap: http://free-money-4-u-001.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Please do not forget to REPLACE http://free-money-4-u-001.blogspot.com with the URL of YOUR Blog.

As a final step Save the changes and you are done. The XML SiteMap will enable the search engines find your XML sitemap files via the robots.txt file.

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 Also Read : How to Monetize your Blog with Infolinks !

How to start your Blog on Blogger.com !

Blogger.com is one of the platforms that allows you to start your own blog. Today we would discuss on how to start your own blog on Blogger.

Below is a step by step guide for you to start this journey of becoming a successful blogger.

Step #1

You are required to create your account on Blogger.com by Signing In.

Step #2Click on New Blog which you wish to create.

Step #3
Add the Title of your Blog, Address of your blog and finally choose a suitable Template for you blog.

Step #4Now that you have setup your blog on Blogger, you are ready to make your first Post on your blog.
Choose Start Posting and go ahead to reach the world.

Step #5Below is the snap shot of Posting screen wherein you are required to provide a Title to your post and below is the space available for you to type your post.
Here you can Save your post or even Preview it.

Step #6As a final step you must click the Publish button to publish your current Post so that it becomes visible on the Internet.

Also Read : How to make money from your blog ?

How to make money from your Blog ?

I have come across many websites and blogs that have made an attempt to provide information on "How to make money from your Blog ?" If you wish to make money from the internet, then, you can very well consider blogging as one of the options available to you. I am sharing my views here so that a person like you could benefit out of it.

You can start your free blog by registering on Blogger.com or Wordpress.com. But before doing so, it is a must that you make up your mind as to on which topic you wish to focus your writing. You need to maintain a homogeneity in your writing. Try and maintain a simple style of writing. You can prepare some of the pages in Word Editor first and latter on you can paste them in your blog as your new posts.

You should not make haste in starting to earn from your blog. It is advisable that you try and improve quality of your writing by being a regular writer. This way you should be able to develop your writing skills and also your blog posts would be more appealing to its readers.That is lay more stress on building a good content. This is very important because search engines like google.com believe in "Content is King".

Next important step is driving quality traffic to your blog. This again requires patience and pursuance. You should firstly submit your blog for crawling to search engines like google.com through its webmaster tools and bing.com through its add url feature. This is important so that search engines crawl your blog's content and make it available to searchers on the internet. You will be required to promote your blog well on social networks like Facebook.com and Twitter.com. You can also focus on building links to your blog.

Once you see a good traffic flowing to your blog set up your Publishers account with Infolinks and you will find Ads been displayed on your blog and money flowing to your account once people visit your blog. This is one of the many ways by which you can monetize your blog.

I would continue to throw more light on this topic so continue reading.

Also Read : How to Start your Blog on Blogger.com ?