How to Add an XML/Atom Sitemap to your Blogger Blog
September 28, 2023 ・0 comments ・Topic： Blogger
Dear friends, my name is ARYA. Today I am going to show you! How to Add a Sitemap to your Blogger Blog.
How to Add an XML/Atom Sitemap to your Blogger Blog
A Sitemap is nothing but a list of accessible pages on your website. Sitemaps help search engines like Google and Yahoo, and Bing to easily crawl pages in your site which helps in better index. As a blogger, you must create a sitemap so whenever you make a new post search engines can crawl and index them easily. In this post let’s see how to create a sitemap for a Blogger blog and submit it to Google webmaster tools and in robots.txt.
Default Blogger sitemap
By default your blogger blog will have a sitemap, but the issue with that sitemap is it only shows your recent blog posts (example). A perfect sitemap is that it should contain the list of all your pages so that search engines know the complete structure of your site. Let’s see how to create a sitemap for a Blogger blog.
How to create a sitemap for a Blogger
Creating a sitemap is very simple and this sitemap works for both self-hosted Blogger blogs and normal Blogger blogs. Just use this (atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500)next to your blog's URL. See the example below.
https://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Now you have created a sitemap for your Blogger blog, but you need to tell search engines about your sitemap so that bots can know your site structure. There are two ways to tell search engines about your sitemap.
- Showing your sitemap in robots.txt file
- Submitting your sitemaps in Google webmaster tools
Adding your Blogger sitemap in robots.txt file
Log in to your Blogger blog and go to dashboard >> settings >> search preferences and edit the custom robots.txt. Enable and paste the following text and click save changes. Make sure to change your blog name in the Blogger sitemap below.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://sureyea.blogspot.in/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://sureyea.blogspot.in/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
So whenever search engines crawls your site they will access your Blogger sitemap from robots.txt file.
Submitting your Blogger sitemap in Google Webmaster tools
Login to your Google webmaster tools and select your website. In your site dashboard click sitemaps below. Now click add/test sitemaps, add your sitemap (just the atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500), and submit your sitemap.
That’s it you have successfully submitted your sitemap in Google webmaster tools. Now it’s ready for crawling and indexing. You can find the number of pages crawled and indexed in Google webmaster tools.
Hope this helped you to create a sitemap for Blogger and submit it in robots.txt and Google webmaster tools. Please leave your comments below.
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