Blogger / Blogspot Sitemap
Just like all other website blogger sites also have a sitemap but their sitemap URL is a little bit different from other sites.
Usually sitemap is like www.yoursitename.com/sitemap.xml
There are sitemap URLs for bloggers :
- www.yourblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false
- www.yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?=rss
Important Note :
Using the above sitemaps you found that only 26 URLs are indexed by Webmaster, which is something annoying. So here is something new. Instead of using the above given URL (which are given years ago), please use the new sitemap URLs
- www.yourblog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml
- www.yourblog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml?page=1
- www.yourblog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml?page=2
- www.yourblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
The page "sitemap.xml" contains the full sitemap index, while
"sitemap.xml?page=1" contains only 150 pages. So if your blog contain
more posts than 150, then keep increasing the page number. You can
submit all of those sitemap URLs in Webmasters for better indexing of
your website.
Why do we need a Sitemap?
Sitemap is necessary for search engine bots to crawl each and every page
of our website and get it indexed so that our website can appear in
search results. If we have a sitemap then we can submit it to search
engines so that they crawl every post / page of your blog.
You can also submit such URLs to Google Webmasters tool.
How to submit Blogger Sitemap to Google Webmasters
I am assuming that you have already added your blog to Google Webmasters tool.
Now got to "Optimizations" tab and click on "Sitemaps". Then go to "Add/Test Sitemap".
It will allow you to test your Sitemap URL and add it to webmasters.