Bloggers that use Blogger.com surely have one disadvantage as against WordPress users. It is that Google indexes and crawls only the last 25 posts from your blog. So clearly if you have 30 blog posts on your blog then all your articles will not be read by Google. And most importantly if you have redirected feeds on your blog then you are playing with site’s ranking and its life. So what’s the best way to overcome this problem. Just provide a sitemap to Google from your Google-Webmasters account. But here arises one more problem; how to create sitemap? That’s very easy, you don’t have to create one, just provide a correct link.[...]

I did not want to create a sitemap so I searched the net and found out some possible ways. Amit Aggarwal from Lanol.org says:

• First login to your Google Webmaster account and then go to Sitemaps.
• Here select any previous sitemap that you submitted( that is not working properly) and delete it.
• Then click on “Add Sitemap”. Then from the scroll down menu that appears select “Add General Sitemap”.
• Now you will be asked to enter the sitemap URL. So there you enter: http://xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false Note: Don’t forget to enter your blog’s name instead of ‘xxx’
• Then press “Add Sitemap” and you are done.

But still there will be some problems and then I found another solution. This time I tried this:
…/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100
And it worked. Just click the link and you will believe me. All my posts are listed there. And it also worked as my sitemap.
So what you have to do now is:

• Remove all the non-working sitemaps from your webmaster account.
• Then add a general sitemap. The URL should be: http://xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100 Note: Replace xxx with your blog’s name.
• Now you are done. Your 100 posts will be listed in google. But what about more posts? Good Question.
• When you have posts more than 100 say 110 then enter another sitemap URL. This time it should be: http://xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100
• And when you have more than 200 posts add another sitemap to previous ones. The URL being: http://xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=301&max-results=100
• And so on…(See the start-index value is changing everytime).

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