blogger_logo I was trying to figure a way to add the sitemap to Google webmaster tools for my blog on blogger.com and to allow user to subscribe my post feed through feedburner. I test my concept on terencechang.blogspot.com and profashionjewerly.blogspot.com. I finally find a way to do it. It’s not perfect, but it works.

As you might already know that blogger.com provides the default Atom.xml as the post feed. However, if you try to add the FeedBurner under your blogger control panel (settings -> Site Feed), you will find that all URL of your post are redirected to FeedBurner’s feed URL. In that case, the Atom.xml site map link is no longer working under Google’s webmaster tools.

A viewer posts a comment about the solutions for blogger. You can read post and comment here. JohnMu is very kindly providing us a link to the FeedBurner forum about the solution. There in an instruction on how to set your site map for Google Webmaster tools. Well. It simply uses the following URL as the site map. As you can see it adds a redirect=false at the end of the normal feed URL.

http://terencechang.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?redirect=false. You just change terencechang to your blog name.

Wait. It doesn’t work for me. When you click on the link, you see a FEED page and the URLs are your post URLs. That’s good. However, Google webmaster tools won’t accept the URL.

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You can see the snap shot of the error message on Google Webmaster Tools. It’s not acceptable.

So what is the solution?

It’s very simple. You simply use http://terencechang.blogspot.com/atom.xml as your site map on Google Webmaster tools and register your site feed on FeedBurner. So my feedBurner feed URL will look like this.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/terencechangblogspot

The only think you have to do is this. DO NOT put the feedBurner feed URL to your Blogger control panel. Leave the “Post Feed Redirect URL” field empty. That’s it. What that does is to use your original atom.xml as the sitemap while people can still subscribe your FeedBurner RSS feed.

Now. All my blogger blog are using atom.xml as sitemap while people can still click on the big RSS feed icon to subscribe to my feed. I can track all clicks through and many other statistics.

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