A Sitemap is a list of accessible pages in your website. Sitemaps helps search engines like Google and Yahoo 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. By default your blogger blog will have sitemap, but the issue with that sitemap is it only shows your recent blog posts.A perfect sitemap is that it should contain the list of all you pages so that search engines know the complete structure of your site. let’s see how to create sitemap for Blogger blog and submit in robots.txt.
create sitemap for Blogger
sitemap creation is very simple . Just use the following syntax next to your blogs Url.
(atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500)
For example :
https://seekerstechie.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Now you have created sitemap for your Blogger blog, but you need to tell search engines about your sitemap so that bots can know your site structure.Let us see how to do that ?
Adding your Blogger sitemap in robots.txt file
Login to your Blogger blog and go to dashboard >> settings >> Crawlers and indexing-->>enable custom robot.txt and edit the custom robots.txt.Paste the following text and click save changes. Do change your blog name in Blogger sitemap below:
User-agent: * Disallow: /search Allow: / Sitemap:href="https://seekerstechie.blogspot.com/
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500"
Now onward whenever search engines crawls your site they will access your Blogger sitemap from robots.txt file.
Last step is you need to visit google search console and enter the sitemap url of your site in the space asking for add a new site map
then you need to add the sitemap url as follow
https://seekerstechie.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
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