Adding Google Sitemap to your blog

This is for all those who want to increase the chances of their blog being shown in relevant Google Search results. Adding Google Sitemap to your blog (or any of your websites for that matter) is a good way to increase chances of getting more traffic. What it means is that, Google's search robot gets a map to navigate around your website and keep track of your sites contents, where it links to, what links to it etc. If the robot remembers this (which it is supposed to), the next time anyone uses a search query relevant to your blog's content, the search results will have your blog in it.
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 :)

First page...again

'He who learns from his mistakes, learns the best' , 'Man learns from experience'

Both these proverbs apply to me, at least in the case of blogging. When new to this, now widespread self-publishing phenomenon, I had created various blogs related to different topics and situations as I encountered them. Each of these blogs had, on an average about 10 posts. I just did not have any other post to make to each blog since I did not have an experience in that blog's category; and if I kept adding new blogs for each category, I would have to keep a track of all the classification I make. MESSY...
I have been planning to get all the mess out and to organize the blogs in a single ... well... lets call it BLOB.
So in the coming days, weeks and months, will be getting all my earlier blogs in one place - THIS blog. Yes, will be adding new posts too as and when required.