So, essentially, you inform the search engine of all your current pages and updates to help it search.
Here are the instructions to add a sitemap to your Blogspot blog - (Though there are 15+ steps they are real easy and will take you 5 mins max).
1. Go to Google Sitemap. [https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview?hl=en]
2. Login using your Google account. (Blogspot account you dummy!)
3. In the Add Website box, add your blog's address http://{yourblog}.blogspot.com
4. Click OK. This will bring you to the Verification step.
5. In the combo-box select 'Add a meta-tag'. {The other is only useful if you have hosting rights. So if you have your own website that you host with some web-hosting agency or web-server that you have access to upload files on, you might want to take that path. More on that in a later blog.}
6. You should now see a box with some crappy 'meta-tag' looking something like -
"< 'meta' - name =" blah" content =" blah">
7. Copy this message. Do not close this window or tab.
8. In a new browser window, open Blogspot.
9. Login to blogspot.
10. Go to the Blog Settings.
11. Go to the Template.
12. In the html type code that is shown, scroll to the "<>" section. Generally around the 10-12th line in your template code.
13. Paste that meta-tag dude right after the term "<'head'>" and definitely before "< / head >".
14. Save your template (button below).
15. Republish, just in case.
16. Go to the window/tab with Google Sitemap.
17. Click on the button that reads 'Verify'.
18. You will get nice check marks saying 'Webpage added' etc.
19. Click on the Sitemaps section.
20. In the text-box provided type in http://{your-blog}.blogspot.com/atom.xml
21. Done!
Easy eh? I wish I had the time to actually take screen-shots of each step and paste them along (atleast those where I refer to text boxes etc.) Well, I believe you are smart enough to not need them :)
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