How to Generate and Add an XML Sitemap to Blogger Blog?

 

Here are the steps on how to generate and add an XML sitemap to your Blogger blog:

1. Go to the Blogger Sitemap Generator: https://www.labnol.org/blogger/sitemap/.
2. Enter the full address of your Blogger blog in the "Enter your blog URL" field.
3. Click the "Generate Sitemap" button.
4. The tool will generate an XML file with your sitemap. Copy the entire text to your clipboard.
5. Go to your Blogger dashboard.
6. Click on the Settings icon.
7. Click on Search Preferences.
8. In the "Crawling and Indexing" section, enable the Custom robots.txt option.
9. Paste the XML sitemap in the Custom robots.txt field.
10. Click the Save button.

Your XML sitemap has now been generated and added to your Blogger blog.

To submit your Blogger sitemap to Google, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Google Search Console: https://search.google.com/search-console/.
2. Sign in to your Google account.
3. Click on the Sitemaps tab.
4. Click the Add/Test Sitemap button.
5. Paste the URL of your XML sitemap in the text field.
6. Click the Submit button.

Google will now crawl and index your sitemap. This will help your blog pages to be indexed more quickly and easily by search engines.

Here are some additional tips for creating an effective XML sitemap:

• Make sure that your sitemap is up-to-date. You should update your sitemap whenever you add new content to your blog.
• Use the correct format for your sitemap. The XML sitemap format is the most common format used by search engines.
• Optimize your sitemap for search engines. This means using the correct keywords and tags in your sitemap.
• Submit your sitemap to Google Search Console. This will help Google to crawl and index your sitemap more quickly.