How to Create And Submit Blogger Blog Sitemap Successfully

So many webmasters have been complaining getting errors when submitting their site to Google Webmaster Tools, so here is the solution to your problems.
For self hosted sites submitting sitemaps is easy but for blogspot(blogger) hosted sites there is a tweak involved. If you don’t follow this; either you will end up with a WARNING and/or the maximum number of URLs submitted will be shown as 26.

So, how can you submit sitemaps for a blogger hosted blog without any warnings or errors?

Suppose you have a site called abc.blogspot.com. The sitemap for this site would be:

http://abc.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

meaning simply append 

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

to your blog URL in Google Webmaster Tools > Sitemaps > Add Sitemap.

If you don’t include redirect=false, webmaster tools will give you a warning. If you don’t include start-index=1&max-results=100, the maximum number of URLs submitted will be shown as 26, always. Remember if you have more than 100 pages on your blogspot site, you would need to include two sitemaps one having an index starting with 1 and ending with 100(start-index=1&max-results=100) and the other having an index starting with 100 and ending with 200(start-index=100&max-results=100)

Hope this helps?