A sitemap is a directory of all pages, post present on your blog. The sitemap helps search engine to crawl all the web pages present in your blog. If you want to tell the search engine about all web pages present on your blog, then you must submit a sitemap to search engine so that it will crawl all URL. The sitemap allows the search engine to index all your web pages fast. It will take a few days to index all the URL of your blog. You can submit a sitemap to two simple ways
- By using the robots.txt file
- By using Google search console previously known as Google webmaster tools
In my blogging resources, I have mentioned about Google Search Console and Google Analytics. It’s handy tools for blogger. I recommend you to join Google analytics and webmaster tools for your blog by which you can analyze your blog performance, traffic and with the help of statistic, you can track all blog performance which will help you to improve your blog.
Related: Complete setup of google analytics
Submit sitemap using the robots.txt file in Blogspot blog?
1. Open Blogger Setting>Search preference click the edit custom robot.txt file
2. Click the enable and add your blog URL like this
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://www.yourdomainname.com/atom.xml?
redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
3. Just edit above code with your blog URL and Save the changes. Once you save all the changes, you have made Google will start indexing your all web pages one by one. Remember it will take a few days to crawl all web pages.
2.Submit Sitemap by using Google Webmaster tools(Google search console)
1. Log in your Google webmaster tools and select your blog. If you have not added, then add it.
2. Click on the Crawl>Sitemap>Add/test sitemap
1. Log in your Google webmaster tools and select your blog. If you have not added, then add it.
2. Click on the Crawl>Sitemap>Add/test sitemap
3. Next to your blog URL you need to paste atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1 max-results=500
4. Test Sitemap for errors and submit.
4. Test Sitemap for errors and submit.
5. Refresh and Save all
It will submit only your first 500 posts URL’s as you can see the above URL you will see results=500 only first 500 URLs will index. If you have more than 500 posts, then you create another sitemap and change the start index 501. Then Google will now start to indexing URL from 501 to next.
You can track how many URLs indexed on Google Webmaster Tools. Another method is by putting your website URL in the Google it will show you all your pages in search results. In this way, you can tell Google about your URL that is present in your blog.
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Amit Kharbade
Editor/Writer at ScrollBucks
Software Engineer, Blogger, Writer and the man behind ScrollBucks, since 2014 Amit has been contributing to ScrollBucks to help newbie bloggers to increase their blogging knowledge. You can reach out to him at [email protected]
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