Submit Blogger Sitemap to Google Sitemap Easily

To ensure proper search engine coverage you must submit your Blogger blog’s sitemap to Google Search Console (formerly known as Google Webmaster Central and then Google Webmaster Tools). A sitemap consists of all the pages of a particular blog or website. Sitemaps tell the search engine about the contents of your website. In other words, they help search engines to find, crawl and index all of your website's content, e.g. posts, static pages, videos, images, and other files. In short, sitemaps determine the ranking of your blog.

The method of Blogger’s sitemap submission is relatively easy. All Blogger blogs have automatically generated sitemap which contains all links to posts published on your blog. Moreover, there is also an option to submit all of your static pages. But the first step is to find your sitemap files which you can complete in the following manner:

Finding your sitemap URL

For Posts:

https://yourblogname.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

For Static Pages:

https://yourblogname.blogspot.com/sitemap-pages.xml

Explanation with example:

Replace the “yourblogname” with your blog’s address. For instance, to fetch my blog’s sitemap I have to make the following modifications:

https://lifebd360.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

https://lifebd360.blogspot.com/sitemap-pages.xml

Adding your sitemap URL to Google Search Console

To submit your sitemap(s) you must have to add your site into Google Search Console. If you already have it done then ignore Step 2 & 3 and follow Step 1, 4, 5 & 6.

Step 1: Log in to Google Search Console.

Step 2: Click on “Add property” and under “Select property type” enter your blog’s URL and hit “Continue”.

Step 3: From “Verify ownership” expand “HTML tag Add a meta tag to your site's home page” and copy the meta tag inside <head> section of your blog’s template.

After saving your template return to Google Search Console and click “Verify”

Step 4: Log in to your Search Console “Dashboard”.

Step 5: From the left sidebar go to “Sitemaps”

Step 6: Under “Add a new sitemap” field enter your sitemap URL for posts and hit “Submit”. To submit a sitemap for static pages, follow the same step.

Getting most out of your sitemaps

https://yourblogname.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml is Blogger’s default sitemap format and it has a very limited scope for discovering site’s content. Simply speaking, this sitemap will tell the crawlers about the most recent 25 posts only, which doesn’t sound good at all. However, you may bring some changes to it to maximize its capabilities.

For 500 recent posts:

The following model is applicable of telling the search engines about 500 recent posts. Just replace the “yourblogname” with your blog address:

https://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

When you are done with the alteration then submit the URL to the Google Search Console as per the method mentioned above.

For 1000 recent posts:

However, what happens when your blog reaches 1000 posts? Well, don’t worry, you then have to submit another sitemap to Search Console in the following format:

https://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=1000

Thanks for reading. Hope I have been able to explain the sitemap submission procedure most simply. However, if you still have any queries, please let me know either in the comments section or via the contact form.

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Life in Bangladesh

Tuesday, August 11, 2020