# Cut and paste the sitemap into a text file (use Notepad, which is usually found in âAll Programs > Accessoriesâ).
# Change â
http://YOUR-BLOG-HOMEPAGE-URLâ and â
http://YOUR-BLOG-SITEFEEDâ as appropriate.
# <priority> tag: Pages are assigned priorities on the scale 0.0 to 1.0. These are relative so scoring every page 1.0 is the same as scoring every page 0.0. Iâve suggested scoring the homepage and site feed as 0.8, archives 0.6 and ordinary posts 0.4. So the homepage is twice as important as an ordinary post, while an archive is somewhere in between. But you do what you like.
# <changefreq> tag: You can tell Google how often pages are updated. Iâve suggested the homepage and site feed change daily, while archives and individual posts never change. Check here to see what you can change this to. (You may also wish to change the <changefreq> on your current archive page manually from âneverâ to âdailyâ.)
# Save the sitemap as âsitemap.xmlâ making sure âUTF-8â encoding is selected.
# Upload this file to your blogâs host directory i.e. to create the URL â
http://YOUR-BLOG-HOMEPAGE-URL/sitemap.xmlâ.
# Notify Google and youâre done.
