Google Webmaster Tool is a another free utility that bloggers can use to make sure that the Googlebot can crawl and index all the pages of your site. You just need to submit your site's sitemap and wait for Google to scan on it. Here's how to do it.
Go to Google Webmaster Tools website at:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools
For first timers, you can use your existing gmail account to register and then when you login, you'll go straight to the Tool Dashboard. Below the Dashboard title, you'll see a field where you can enter your site's URL, then you can click the "Add Site" button to do just that. See example of what I did with this site below:
After that, you'll see the name of the site listed at the bottom of the field and next to its name there are 2 columns named "sitemap" and a "verify?". Click on the "verify" link at the right portion of your blog's name and a dropdown list will appear for you to choose a verification method. The verification is for Google to know that you are really the owner of the URL that you submitted. At it, choose "Add a meta tag". Then a meta tag will appear below it. Copy that tag into you Blogger.com by creating and pasting it in a new "HTML/JavaScript" page element. Save the page element and then go back to the Webmaster Tool webpage and click at the "Verify" button. It will detect the presence of the tag in your blog and will confirm that your site is verified.
Since the sitemap file has all your pages listed in it, Google will have a clear idea where your pages are and will be quick in indexing them in its search engine directory.
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