A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more efficiently and to find URLs that may be isolated from the rest of the site's content and search bots may have otherwise missed during regular crawling.
Google supports several sitemap formats, mentioned below. Google expects the standard sitemap protocol in all formats. Google does not currently consume the <priority> attribute in sitemaps.
- XML
- RSS, mRSS, and Atom 1.0
- Text
How to add site map in Blogger
Go to your Blogger.com dashboard, navigate to Settings –> Crawlers and indexing, enable Custom robots.txt option (available in the Crawling and Indexing section). Paste the XML sitemap here and save your changes.
Replace the blogger address with yours in below.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://itcanopy.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap: https://itcanopy.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500
And we are done. Search engines will automatically discover your XML sitemap files via the robots.txt file and you don’t have to ping them manually
You can also submit the same on Google Search Console and Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools.
- Google Search Console Sitemap settings
- Bing Webmaster Tools
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