After verified my blog http://indian-leadership.blogspot.com. I submitted sitemap in google webmaster account by atom.xml and rss.xml also, I got following message. URL not allowed This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location. pl help me
first u need to know what a sitemap is? A sitemap is a simple dirsctory linking all your main pages...in this case all the links u have to the topic titles in a blog. Sitemap is only used by search engines to update their cached contents....in a word...unless u own a website, sitemap isnt gonna make much difference....well im gonna tell u how u can go ahead with it... The sitemap generated by google is generally in the format :sitemap.xml first u need to do is configure ur rss feeds...u cant configure it unless u have few posts... There may be other ways for creating a sitemap for your blogger blog.But here Ill tell you the simplest way by which you can create a site map for your blog.Just follow the instructions below and you will have your site map in minutes. Visit Google Webmaster Tools sitemaps page and sign up to a free account.Blogspot accounts are now integrated with google accounts.So use your google login for making a Google webmaster account. Once you sign in to the webmaster,Go to Webmaster tools [Including sitemaps].In that page,You will find "Add site".Enter the URL of your site and press Ok. Now after adding your blog, you need to get it verified.For that ,click on "Manage:URL of your site" on the webmaster tools page.In the new page that opens now,click on Manage Site Verification in the left side menu. On the verification page,you will find your verification Meta tag which will look something like this Now go to your blogger dashboard,click on template and paste this code in the section of the code.Now save the changes of your template. Now go to sitemaps tab on the top menu in Google webmasters central. In that click on Add a sitemap and then choose general web sitemap in the dropdown menu.Now it will ask you for the URL of your sitemap location.Your blogs Atom feed is your sitemap now. So paste the link of your atom feed now.If you have your blog feed,the your atom feed will be [h t t p ://Blog URL/atom.xml?orderby=updated] .Now click ok and you are done.Now it will show your sitemap in the sitemaps page as atom.xml.After few hours,it will review your site map and will set your status to pending.After some hours you will find the status set to Ok. Now Google will index your pages much faster than earlier.So update your pages and get more visitors from search now . Sources: experience and internet if u found my reply helpful u can rate me... -thank you....
Hi, Thank you for your reply. I followed your steps, but i can't find "general web sitemap" in submit site option. My feed is working properly but after submitting sitemap by atom.xml and rss.xml. I got error.
Just came across this thread and found your information really helpful. Thanks. PS. I will rate you as soon as I get my requisite posts. Just rejoined this forum.
What else do you need? Google already said "URL not allowed. This URL is not allowed for a sitemap at this location".