Last week one of my friends asked me how to add blog’s site map to Google, i told him but the i thought many other bloggers might need to know how to add site map to Google or other search engines.

Site map is nothing but a representation of the architecture of a web site.  It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.

 
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Adding sitemap to search engines like Google or Yahoo help you to generate traffic as it adds your recent posts to the directory of these search engines.

Site maps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found. This is especially important if a site uses Adobe Flash or JavaScript menus that do not include HTML links.

Now if you want to add your sitemap to Google, then just go to Google webmaster tools and the put your blog’s address in the provided space and click on “Add Site” button. Then follow the procedure and then on the sidebar click on sitemap link. There your blog’s link would be written and then paste this fragment of code ….”rss.xml” or “feeds/posts/default?=rss” and click on submit site map. It will take some time but your blog will be placed in google directory and your posts will be included in the directory.

This is only for blogger fro wordpress there is a plugin named WordPress site map generator.