Create XML Sitemap for Blogger
What steps should I take to create a sitemap for Blogger and Google Search Console?
Create a sitemap in XML for your Blogger website.
Enter the complete address of your Blogger blog in the Sitemap Generator. This application will quickly generate an XML file containing your sitemap when you click the Generate Sitemap button. The full text should be copied to your clipboard.
How to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console?
- Activate your Google Search Console account.
- Select your website on the sidebar.
- Click the "Sitemaps" link. The "Index" section has a menu item called "Sitemaps''.
- Remove (if any) sitemap.xml files that are out of date or inactive.
- Enter the link to your newly made site map, for reference.
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 - After clicking "Submit," you're done.
Have you outgrown your current Sitemap?
The most SEO-friendly XML Sitemaps Protocol is used to create an alternative Sitemap for Blogger blogs, which can then be submitted directly to Google and other search engines.
Web publishers are increasingly using the Blogger platform due to its accessibility and wide range of options for bloggers of all experience levels. However, this platform has disadvantages when it comes to search engine optimization. One is that a sitemap is not created by Blogger by default (unlike many other cloud-based site builders). Let's look at a solution to this issue.
What are the disadvantages of a standard Blogger's Sitemap?
The fundamental issue is that platform users have no influence over the feed's content. Additionally, you will need to create numerous unique URLs for huge sites in order to pass the Sitemap in sections. A feed also excludes links to any other pages on the website, such as category sections, and solely contains links to blog entries.
Another problem is that the file is an Atom feed rather than a typical XML Sitemap. Although Google can use an Atom feed as a Sitemap, other search engines do not. For instance, such a file cannot be submitted to Yandex, and sadly, this issue cannot be completely resolved.
What is the difference between Atom and XML Sitemap?
| Atom | XML | |
|---|---|---|
| Single URL | No | Yes: 50k page file or Sitemaps index file |
| Configurable additional tags | No | Yes: date, priority, and method of the update |
| Additional namespaces | No | Yes: Sitemaps for images, many languages, etc. |
Can a Blogger Sitemap be manually generated?
I regret to say no. The main issue here is that Blogger users cannot upload XML files to their sites, making it impossible to build a link to submit the file to search engines.