Learn how to generate XML sitemaps for your blogger and blogspot blogs. The sitemaps will help Google web crawlers better index your site
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The XML Sitemap file is like a directory of all web pages that exist on your website or blog. Google, Bing and other search engines can use these sitemap files to discover pages on your site that their search bots may have otherwise missed during regular crawling.
The Problem with Blogger Sitemap Files
A complete XML sitemap file should mention all pages of a
site but that’s not the case if your blog is hosted on the Blogger or blogspot
platform.
Google accepts sitemaps in XML, RSS, or Atom formats.
They recommend use
both XML sitemaps and RSS/Atom feeds for optimal crawling.
The default atom RSS feed of any
Blogger blog will have only the most recent blog posts – see
example. That’s a limitation because some of your older blog pages,
that are missing in the default XML sitemap file, may never get indexed in
search engines. There’s however a simple solution to fix this problem.
Generate XML Sitemap
for your Blogger Blog
This section is valid for both
regular Blogger blogs (that have a blogspot.com address) and
also the self-hosted Blogger blogs that use a custom domain (like gatewaysol.com).
Here’s what you need to do to
expose your blog’s complete site structure to search engines with the help of
an XML sitemap.
1. Open
the Sitemap Generator ( https://www.labnol.org/blogger/sitemap/ )and type the
full address of your Blogger blog.
2. Click
the Generate Sitemap button and this tool will instantly create the XML file
with your sitemap. Copy the entire text to your clipboard.
3. Next,
go to your Blogger.com dashboard, navigate to Settings –> Search
Preferences, enable Custom robots.txt option (available in the Crawling and
Indexing section). Paste the XML sitemap here and save your changes.
And we are done. Search engines will automatically discover your
XML sitemap files via the robots.txt file and you don’t have to ping them
manually.
Internally, the XML sitemap generator counts all the blog posts
that are available in your Blogger blog. It then splits the posts in batches of
500 posts each and generates multiple XML feed for each batch. Thus search
engines will be able to discover every single post on your blog since it would
be part of one of these XML sitemaps.
PS: If you have switched from Blogger to WordPress, it still
makes sense to submit XML sitemaps of your old Blogspot blog as that will aid
search engines discover your new WordPress blog posts and pages.
https://gatewaysolu.blogspot.com/How to Add an XML Sitemap to your Blogger Blog.html
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