How to create sitemap for Blogger blog – Blogger sitemap XML

A Sitemap is nothing but a list of accessible pages in your website. Sitemaps helps search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to easily crawl pages in your site which helps in better index. As a blogger you must create a sitemap so whenever you make a new post search engines can crawl and index them easily. In this post let’s see how to create sitemap for Blogger blog and submitting it to Google webmaster tools and in robots.txt.

Default Blogger sitemap

By default your blogger blog will have sitemap, but the issue with that sitemap is it only shows your recent blog posts (example). A perfect sitemap is that it should contain the list of all you pages so that search engines know the complete structure of your site. Let’s see how to create sitemap for Blogger blog.

How to create sitemap for Blogger

Creating sitemap is very simple and this sitemap works for both self-hosted Blogger blogs and normal Blogger blogs. Just use this (atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500)next to your blogs URL. See example below.
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Now you have created sitemap for your Blogger blog, but you need to tell search engines about your sitemap so that bots can know your site structure. There are two ways to tell search engines about your sitemap.
1. Showing your sitemap in robots.txt file and 2. Submitting your sitemaps in Google webmaster tools

Adding your Blogger sitemap in robots.txt file

Login to your Blogger blog and go to dashboard >> settings >> search preferences and edit the custom robots.txt. Enable and paste the following text and click save changes. Make sure to change your blog name in Blogger sitemap below.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

Sitemap: http://sureyea.blogspot.in/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

So whenever search engines crawls your site they will access your Blogger sitemap from robots.txt file.

Submitting your Blogger sitemap in Google webmaster tools

Login to your Google webmaster tools and select you website. In your site dashboard click sitemaps below. Now click add/test sitemaps, add your sitemap (just the atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500) and submit your sitemap.

That’s it you have successfully submitted your sitemap in Google webmaster tools. Now it’s ready for crawling and indexing. You can find the number of pages crawled and indexed in Google webmaster tools.

If you like then also submit your Bloggers sitemap to Bing webmaster tools.
Hope this helped you on how to create sitemap for Blogger and submitting it in robots.txt and Google webmaster tools. Please leave your comments below.

Use Mobile Phone Camera As A USB Webcam

We know that many social networking websites such as "Facebook" and "Google Plus" have Video Chatting feature, & we know that to start video chatting we need a Webcam. Sometimes, webcam is not available and we can't start video chat with our friends. But after reading this article you can use your mobile phone camera as USB or Bluetooth Webcam !!!

Yes! You Can Use Your Mobile Camera As A Web Camera For Facebook, Yahoo, Skype Or Any Other Video Chatting Supported Websites. We are going to use a software "Mobiola"


Requirements To Make Your Mobile Phone Camera As A USB Webcam -

1 - A Cell Phone with Camera. 

2 - A USB Data Cable or Bluetooth Dongle to create connectivity between your Computer and your Cell Phone.

3 - And A Computer or Laptop.

You can use this trick with any kind of mobile phone such as Nokia, iPhone,Blackberry, Windows Mobile Phones, Symbian S60, Android. 

First Of All, Trick For Nokia Java, Symbian S60, iPhone, Blackberry And Windows Mobile Phones - 

Step 1 - Go to this link http://mobiola.com/mobiola-web-camera and click on Download and select your mobile phone to start downloading the app.

Step 2 - Those who are using Java phones like Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Nokia 5300 ,Nokia 3500 etc. download this application from this link - http://mobiola-webcam.en.softonic.com/java 

Step 3 - Mobiola consists 2 parts. one is a Client Part and other one is a Server Part.

Step 4 - Install Server Part on your PC (.exe file) and install Client Part on your Mobile Phone (ie. .jar and .sis etc). 

Step 5 - Run Mobiola Webcam on your Computer. 

Step 6 - Run Mobiola Webcam on your Mobile Phone.

Step 7 - Connect your Mobile Phone to your PC by using a USB Data Cable or Bluetooth Dongle.

Step 8 - Now in your Cell Phone, go to Mobiola app and then go to Options, then Connect.

Step 9 - After that, select Bluetooth or USB (Whatever is connected between your Mobile Phone and PC) to create a connection...

Step 10 - After authentication all work is done.

If You Are Using An Android Phone Then Follow These Steps To Turn Your Mobile Phone As A Webcam -

Step 1 - Go to Android Market or Google Play Store on your Android Phone and search for A Application Named "USB Webcam".

Step 2 - Download and install that application on your Android Phone and turn on USB debugging by going to Settings--> Application--> Development--> USB Debugging. 

Step 3 - If you are using Windows on your Computer then download Server for USB webcam from here - http://www.placaware.com/?page_id=6

Step 4 - If you are using linux on your computer, then download Server from Here - http://www.placaware.com/?page_id=116 

Step 5 - Install Server on your Computer. 

Step 6 - Connect your Cell Phone via USB Cable to your Computer. 

Step 7 - After that, double click to open Server from your PC, and open Client app from your Cell Phone and Create A Connection. 

That's all... Now you can use your mobile phone camera as USB Webcam!