HOW TO CREATE A SITEMAP FOR BLOGGER

WHAT IS A SITEMAP

A sitemap is simply a directory of all the pages existing on your site, like a table of contents showing the structure of your blog. Sitemaps help search engines crawl your site and index it properly. Search engines will crawl your site if you have a sitemap or not, but this makes the process easier and quicker for them.

Bloggers default XML sitemap only shows recent blog posts – which is about 26 posts. We want search engine spiders to know your blogs structure so that they can easily understand and index it.

HOW TO CREATE A SITEMAP FOR BLOGGER

Creating a site map on Blogger is easy, simply add your blog name to the link below.

Blogger – Default URL

http://blogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Blogger – Custom URL

http://blogname.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

A single sitemap file should not be exceed 50MB which is why we limit it to max results 500. You may need to edit this depending on how big your feed is. Now we’ve to tell search engines that this is your site map. To do this, we add it to your robots.txt file and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools.

ADD BLOGGER SITEMAP TO ROBOTS.TXT FILE

Go to Blogger > Dashboard > Settings > Search Preferences and click edit the custom robots.txt file. Click enable and paste the following adding your blogname.

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

The above section means that search engines can index your entire site (Allow: /) apart from your blogs search results (Disallow: /search) which is good because that would be considered duplicate pages.

ADDING SITE MAP TO GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOLS

Now login to Google Webmaster Tools and select your blog. On the left click Crawl > Sitemaps > Add/Test Sitemap. You’ll see your blog name and a text input box, paste atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500, test for errors and submit.

Google will now start to crawl and index your site. You can check what pages have been indexed on Googles Webmaster Tools or by going to Google Search and typing “site:www.BLOG-URL.blogspot.com”, “site:BLOG-URL.blogspot.com”, “site:www.BLOG-URL.com” or “site:BLOG-URL.com”. To submit your sitemap to Bing, login to Bings Webmaster Tools, add your URL, verify ownership and then submit your site map. It may take a few days for your site to be indexed.

HAVE MORE THAN 500 POSTS?

If you have more than 500 posts on your blog, you simply submit another sitemap starting at post number 501 for the next 500 posts like so /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500 and continue this depending on the amount of posts you have. So if I had over 1000 posts, my robots.text file would look like this and I would submit the three separate sitemaps to Googles Webmaster Tool.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
 
Sitemap: http://blogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap:http://blogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
Sitemap:http://blogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1001&max-results=500

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J-RYHDME MUSIC

JRHYDME was born Diran Oludele G. started his music career when he was at secondary school(final class), began listening to other artistes and covering their songs. He was encouraged to start writing his own lyrics by friends while in secondary school after which he began to pursue a professional career in hip-hop music,after which his story changed a little while he did his first single: IYAWO MI. Which truely showed him the part to follow ,he is still upcoming and he is getting there these is his two smashing tracks SHEBBI and THAT FINGER these track has this dance feeling when you listen @itssJRHYDME

SHEBBI BY JRHYDME

THAT FINGER

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Enable Facebook Comments Without Removing Google + Comments

This tutorial will guide you on how can enable Facebook comments on your blogger blog without removing Google + comments.

1st step creating app

Just go to Facebook Developers Page  create a new app. click here
Now write Name of your application(your website) and press continue button.In a new page you will find your app id and secret code just copy it and save it in a text file.

Step 2 installation in blogger

Just go to Blogger Dash Board>>Template>>>Edit HTML
and search for below lines
<html ...... xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>

and replace these lines like below

<htmlxmlns:og='http://ogp.me/ns#'...... xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'>

 Now find <body> tag.And after this insert below code.Make sure to  change highlighted lines (Your APP ID) with your Facebook ID.
 <div id="fb-root"></div><script>
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : 'YOUR_APP_ID',
status : true, // check login status
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
xfbml : true // parse XFBML
});
};
(function() {
var e = document.createElement('script');
e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';
e.async = true;
document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
}());
</script> 

Now search for </head>  And just above it insert below lines.Replace Your APP ID with your own APP ID.
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="YOUR_APP_ID" />

Now find these lines carefully it is important
 <b:includable id='comment-form' var='post'>

And just below it insert below code and save your template .

<b:if

cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<div

style='padding:20px 0px 5px 0px; margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;'>

<script

src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1'

/>

<div>

<fb:comments

colorscheme='light'

expr:href='data:post.url'

expr:title='data:post.title'

expr:xid='data:post.id'

width='600'

/>

</div> 

</div>

</b:if>       

preview your blog post to cross check your work, if it display then you are done but if not, press control z on your keyboard till no more changes or simply click on revert changes at the top corner of template editor and then start all over again.
if you have issues enabling it, please drop your comment so we'll help you out

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FUNNAB: Only 3000 Admission Spaces Available for 2014/2015 Session - VC

Vice Chancellor of the University of Agriculture Abeokuta, UNAAB, Olusola Oyewole, during a press conference with regard to the 21st and 22nd convocation ceremonies of the institution which will come up on the 20 and 21st June 2014 revealed that the institution has only 3000 available spaces for the 2014/2015 admission.

According to him, out of the over 30,000 candidates that applied through JAMB to study in the institution only 15,000 scored 180 and above and are therefore eligible to go through the screening exercise for admission in the 2014/2015 academic session.

These 15,000 candidates will be competing for the 3000 available admission spaces in the institution.

He however revealed that that only the Senate of the institution would decide what criteria to use in selecting 3000 candidates out of the 15,000.

According to him,the cut -off mark for the institution may turn out to be 200 in order to reduce the number of candidates vying for the limited spaces to 6000.

FUNNAB aspirants, with this development what chances do you think you have in securing admission this year.

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Iraq formally asks US to launch air strikes against rebels

Iraq has formally called on the US to launch air strikes against jihadist militants who have seized several key cities over the past week.

"We have a request from the Iraqi government for air power," confirmed top US military commander Gen Martin Dempsey in front of US senators.
Earlier the Sunni insurgents launched an attack on Iraq's biggest oil refinery at Baiji north of Baghdad.
Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki earlier urged Iraqis to unite against the militants.
Government forces are battling to push back ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) and its Sunni Muslim allies in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, after the militants overran the second city, Mosul, last week.
US President Barack Obama is due to discuss the Iraq crisis with senior Congress members on Wednesday.
Ahead of the meeting Senate leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said he did not "support in any way" getting American troops involved in the Iraqi "civil war".
But Gen Dempsey told a Senate panel that it was in America's "national interest to counter [ISIS] wherever we find them".

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Skales Shoots 'Shake Body' Video (Fun B-T-S Photos)

A few weeks ago, Skales and his team shot the video for ‘Shake Body’ at location in Lagos, Nigeria. Check out fun photos from the behind the scenes.

 

From dropping massive singles to headlining shows within and outside the country, Skales, is definitely putting work to become one of the youngest and most successful entertainment CEOs.
A few weeks ago, Skales and his team shot the video for ‘Shake Body’ at location in Lagos, Nigeria. Stanz Visuals, an associate of OHK Entertainment, shot and directed the video.
The hit single, his first since floating his self-owned label has been well received by fans, music enthusiasts and even critics. On social media, there is now a big pool of short clips of different people singing and dancing to ‘Shake Body’, since its release in May 2014.
Below are exclusive behind the scene pictures from the video shoot.

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HOW TO TRANSFER BLOG FROM ONE GMAIL TO ANOTHER

Many bloggers would abandon their blog after they applied for adsense and they were denied of approval. They will go about starting a new blog from the scratch because their gmail account will not be giving the chance to re-apply, not knowing that they could move the old blog from the blacklisted email account to a newer email in order to re-apply after correcting the error noted by adsense system.
Today I will be sharing the tutorial on how you can move your blog from one gmail to another without any effect on your blog content and attribute.
Without wasting time, lets get to today business.

  

STEPS

1. Logging to your blogger dashboard using one browser 
2. Choose settings from the drop down as show BELOW.
   
   
3. Click on add author and enter the address of the gmail account you want to transfer the blog
   
4. Click invite author and wait for it to be invited
   
5. Open another browser and login to the e-mail account to accept the invitation 
   
6. Open the email received and  click accept invitation
   
7. You will be asked to sign in to blogger.com, click sign and confirm your profile detail.(that is if you have not blog using new gmail before)
   
   
8. Sign in and confirm your  as shown bellow
   
9. After you confirm your profile as shown above, you will be taken to blogger dashboard which will give you access to the blog as an author
   
10. return to the first browser and refresh the page to show your second email info as author
    
11. Now set the email from author to admin and then remove the first email from the list
    
12. After this, you will not find the blog on the dashboard of the email again, it will only show you the other blogs (that’s if you have more than one blog) 
    
13. Now return to the second browser, refresh the page and then enjoy your full access over the blog using your new email account.
    

That’s all you need to do to move your blog from one gmail account to another.

If you want have many author and admin on blog, all you need to is just to keep inviting the email and do not remove any one them as asked in step 11.

The video for this tutorial will soon be posted just in case you didn’t get it right with the screen shot and instruction, so check back soon, OR drop your comment if you have any challenge doing it.

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