How To Create Sitemap for Blogger – Blogspot / Blogger sitemap XML

If you are new to blogging than you must understand the importance of site map and use of Google Webmaster Tools . The site provides the sense to different search engines to crawl your website for better indexing. Google, Yahoo & Bing these are the main search engines that the whole world is using however the Google is among the top.

The blogger have its own site map by default but it shows only those posts which you have posted in recent times. To get better and organic traffic you must understand the logic and significance of sitemaps.

The question is “how to create sitemap in blogger”?

It’s very simple to create a site map. This is the main link “atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500” that we used to create sitemap. Hey don’t go so fast listen it has to be preceded by your blog address.

For example,

My blog address is http://sourcify.blogspot.com/ by adding mentioned above link after my blog “http://sourcify.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500” in search bar of a search engine your sitemap will be created.

Now we have to move on the second step, you have to convey the message to the search that you have a proper sitemap.  Go to Google Webmaster Tools  and click “Crawl” than click “Sitemaps”

after clicking Sitemaps you will see the button “ADD/TEST SITEMAP” in upper right corner, click to the “ADD/TEST SITEMAP”

 a small window will open under the “ADD/TEST SITEMAP” button paste the link “atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500” in the window, now click the button “submit sitemap”

 now your sitemap is submitted.

Another method of submitting a sitemap in blogger is adding your blogger sitemap in "robots.txt" file.

Just login to your Blogger blog & than  go to dashboard than click to settings than search preferences

after clicking search preferences than click on edit the custom robots.txt.

 Enable and paste the following text and click save changes. change your blog name in Blogger sitemap below.
1    User-agent: *
2    Disallow: /search
3    Allow: /
4   
5    Sitemap: http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

now your sitemap has been submitted and search engines crawls your site they will access your Blogger sitemap from robots.txt file.

don't hesitate to identify and tell  any error.