How to Create Blogger Blog Sitemap & Submit to Google Search Console

By Raman Sharma

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Hello friend! If you’re starting a new blog and wanna make it visible on Google soon, it is very necessary to submit a sitemap of your blog to Google Search Console. Sitemap of your blog makes your articles live on Google in a timely manner.

After submitting the sitemap, you can also find how many articles you have submitted and how many of your articles are indexed by Google. It is the best way to make your articles live on Google very immediately.

So, every blogger needs to submit their blog sitemap to Google Search Console. Actually, you can create a sitemap in a WordPress blog using the plugin but the process of creating a sitemap in a Blogspot blog is a bit different. I’ll tell you the step-by-step procedure to create and submit a sitemap of your Blogger blog.

Generate XML Sitemap For Your Blogger Blog

Google accepts sitemaps in many formats like XML, RSS, and Atom feeds. But, the XML format is widely used by almost all the top bloggers and webmasters these days.

Let me guide you through the process of generating the sitemap for your Blogger blog first. After that, I will guide you on how you can submit it to Google Search Console.

You may find many Blogger sitemap generators on the internet. Some of them generate sitemaps in Atom/RSS feeds and some generate XML sitemaps.

But, truly you just don’t need any sitemap generator to create XML sitemaps for your Blogger blog. Let me show you why:

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

This is the structure of how Blogger sitemap URLs look like. The first one is for all your blog posts and the second is for all the pages on your blog. You just need to replace yourdomain.blogspot.com with your blog URL.

That’s it! You have successfully generated the sitemap for your Blogger blog. Isn’t it simple?

Submit Your Blogger Sitemap to Google Search Console

Now, it’s time to submit these two sitemaps on Google Search Console so that Google can start indexing your blog articles.

Go to Google Search Console and log in with your Blogger account. I assume you already have added your Blogspot blog to the Google Search Console.

After login, click on the Sitemaps option from the left side menu and enter sitemap URLs for both blog posts and pages:

  • sitemap.xml
  • sitemap-pages.xml
Blogger sitemap submit

You’ll have to submit these two sitemaps one by one. Once submitted successfully, you’ll be able to see the number of blog posts and pages submitted through sitemap. If not, refresh the page or check after some time.

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Add Custom Robots.txt File To Your Blogspot Blog

Using the above process of creating a sitemap and adding it to the Google Search Console, you can submit your Blogger blog to Google. But, what about the other search engines?

When a search engine crawls your website, it first accesses your robots.txt file, grabs your sitemap from there, and indexes the blog posts and pages. So, adding a custom robots.txt file to your Blogger blog is another important thing to do.

Follow the steps provided below:

  1. Log in to your Blogspot blog account and go to “Settings”.
  2. Now scroll down the page, look for the “Crawlers and indexing” section, and enable the custom robots.txt option.
  3. Add the following robots.txt file by clicking on the Custom robots.txt option.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://yourdomain.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://yourdomain.blogspot.com/sitemap-pages.xml
Add custom robots.txt file to Blogger

You only need to replace yourdomain.blogspot.com with your blogspot blog URL and search engines will automatically discover your XML Sitemap file through robots.txt.

I hope this article will help you generate an XML sitemap for your Blogger blog and submit it to Google Search Console. Also, the robots.txt file will make other search engines find your website easily.

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