How to generate sitemap for blogger

 

 

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Site map are very important and integral part of any blog or site. Site map helps search engine like Google, Bing, yahoo etc to crawl your pages & index it. If search engines are not able to crawl your site, then your site content wont appear in the search results.  Sitemap are basically the .xml version of all your site links and content of your site, its like directory of your site. 

Thankfully for blogger you don't have to write any code or you don't need any technical expertise. This can be done very easily. I will show you how you can generate sitemap for your blogger blog.

How to generate sitemap for blogger

There are two ways to generate your sitemap

1. RSS/ATOM feeds
2. XML Sitemap

Out of the above the first one is very easy & provides all your recent posts or changes for indexing compare to the XML sitemap which only provides your older post. So it is recommended that you should have sitemap in ATOM. So, here in this article I will show you step by step how you can generate the ATOM sitemap & add it to the google search console & to your robots.txt file.

 RSS/ATOM feeds

Out of the two, this is the simplest method to generate your sitemap. All you need to do is add /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 to your blog url. 

For instance, your blog url is https://yourblogname.blogspot.com then you need to convert it to https://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

This is your site map in atom format, you can go onto google search console and add the sitemap under site map section. 

Here is how you can add it in google search console

1. Go to google search console

2. In the left pane select Sitemap

 

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3. Enter the url which you have created & click on submit.

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4. This will take couple of min based on the size of your blog. 

5. Once completed it will give you your sitemap status.

You have now added it to the Google search console. Next step is you have to add the URL into your robots.txt as well. 

Here is how you can add sitemap to the robots.txt

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1. Sing in into your blogger account

2. In the left pane menu, go to settings

3. Scroll to the custom robots.txt

4. Add your url at the end of the existing text in the robots.txt

5. Click on save and you are done