Generating XML Sitemap for Blogger - Blogspot
What is meant by sitemap?
A sitemap is one of the most important tools for webmasters. It allows a webmaster to generate the entire pages of a website which is pointed out by a single XML file.
This sitemap XML file tells search engines about all the pages of an entire website and make it available for the search engines to crawl through those pages and index them so that they can be displayed in search results. A search engine robot does crawl a website on its own, but having a sitemap will help if it misses any page. A sitemap is highly required for maximum exposure.
Sitemaps are highly recommended by popular search engines like Google and Bing. In Google Webmaster Tools as well as Bing Webmaster Tools, there are places to submit XML sitemaps. Then those webmaster tools will display the total links which have been submitted with the sitemap. There is even an option to see the number of URLs of a particular sitemap which has been crawled and listed in for search results.
A custom sitemap XML file cannot be uploaded to Blogger. Because Blogger does not support uploading a sitemap that is generated externally. So, we have to make use of Blogger's internal features to generate a sitemap. And luckily, Blogger or Blogspot sitemaps can be easily generated.
Generating Sitemap for Blogger - Blogspot
For a .blogspot.com sub-domain
Sitemap are automatically generated for blogs using this sub-domain and it's located at sitemap.xml
For instance if your blog url is like this: http://myblog.blogspot.com/. The sitemap will be automatically generated as: http://myblog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml.
Make sure to replace "myblog" to your blog's.
Sitemap For custom domain Blogger - Blogspot
Here is a simple trick to get post urls in an xml format. it's gotten from the atom feeds of the blog. For a custom domain blog the sitemap will be available at: https://www.myblog.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-result=500
Here, the sitemap is generated using the atom feeds. When the URL above is viewed in a browser it will be seen as feed alongside comes the contents of the post. Submit this URL to the webmaster service of Google and Bing to help improve the presense of your blog contents on search engines.
