How to Generate Sitemap for Blogger Blogs and Submit it to Google Console

byNiket Lekariya •May 31, 2021

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How to Generate Sitemap for Blogger Blogs

How to Generate Sitemap for Blogger Blogs and Submit it to Google Console:-

If up-to now you have successfully created a blog with some posts on it and are wondering about How to Index your article in Google Search Result or How to make Google Crawl your blog, then for this you need to learn How to Generate Sitemap for Blogger Blogs and Submit it to Google.

But if till now you have not added your blog to Google Search Console, Follow this link and steps for How to Add Your Blog in Google Search Console .

Also, if your are curious to know whether your blog is visible on Google Search Result, check this out How to Find Your Blog on Google.

What is Sitemap on Blog?

A sitemap is file which includes complete contents of your blog which depicts the your blog structure in short. These files are used by Search Engine Crawlers and by robots to know which pages to crawl or not. Adding desired URLs to be indexed in Sitemap.xml makes the process smoother for crawling. The crawlers and Spider go through this provided structure of blog and helps them to understand the structure of blog.

Why not default Sitemap file?

As Blogger is one of the free blogging sites, it comes with certain limitations. The default Sitemap generated by Blogger has at most capacity of just 26 most recent articles, which is surely the not best practice. As, all the articles of blog are necessary to be added in Sitemap for complete crawling of all pages.

The default sitemap of blogger is present on htt[://Your-blogName.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

This default sitemap is added to robots.txt itself.

How to Create XML Sitemap for Blogger?

In order to create new Sitemap with large capacity, follow this steps.

Step 1: - First of all, go to this link http://bit.ly/techTalkBot-sitemap-generator, and type in URL of yoru blog.

Sitemap Generator Tool

Step 2:- After typing in the URL, click on GENERATE SITEMAP

Sitemap Generated by Tool

Step 3:- Now, the sitemap is generated for the given URL, copy the entire text from box. Now, go to your Blogger Settings, and find for Robots.txt, click on Enable them.

Paste the entire copied text text in 'Custom robots.txt'

Adding Sitemap to Robots.txt

Congratulations! If you have followed me thoroughly, you have successfully created sitemap and linked it to robots.txt.

To make sure, you can simply go to https://Your-Blog-name.blogspot.com/robots.txt

How to submit sitemap on google search console

Adding Sitemap Manually to Google Search Console

Though crawlers themselves crawl through sitemap, still to ease the overall process, you can manually add Sitemap URL to Google Search Console.

Go to Google Search Console(GSC) and in the left sidebar search for Sitemap;

Paste your copied sitemap url into the box and click on SUBMIT; it will take some time for Crawlers to crawl through your links till then you can check current status for individual links and Index Coverage.

Just paste the remaining portion of the URL, which must be looking like

/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500