How to add Blogger Sitemap in Google Search Console: Here is a step-by-step Guide for newbies
Hello Friends! If you newbie in blogging field and just started your blogging career with Blogger platform, you might not know how search engines work and how to display your website in the Google search results to drive organic traffic to your blog.
You can show your blogg website in Google search for free! if you can help Google to find your blog.
To do that, you should know about Google Search Console
Search Console is a free tool own by Google which helps you to show up your website in Google search results (index or crawl your website).
This tool also helps you to improve the crawling rate of your blog.
All you have to do are a few simple things.
- First of all, you’ve to verify in Google Search Console that you’re the owner of the website.
- And, the second and most important task is to submit your blog/website sitemap to search console.
Here in this post, I’m going to share with you through step by step methods about how to add website sitemap to Google Search Console.
But, before that we need to understand what actually a sitemap is, and why is it important for your blog to submit a sitemap.
For verifying your website ownership on Search Console, you can refer to this article on neilpatel.com to know more.
So, without wasting time, let’s get started...
What is a Sitemap?[Blogger]
As the word sounds— Sitemap, actually is a map of your Blogger website.
When Google crawlers go around the web indexing new web pages in its database, new blogs are usually missed out as only a few or no sites are linking to them as well as they’re not aware of sitemap thing.
A sitemap is either an .XML or .HTML file that contains all the URLs of the post and pages inside your blog website.
While HTML sitemap helps your visitors to navigate through your blog, an XML sitemap helps the search engine crawlers the same way.
When you submit an XML sitemap to Google Search Console, it helps search engine crawlers to find all the URLs on your website and add it to Google database.
There are various parts of a sitemap that affect the crawling rate of your blog, such as the size of your sitemap, the number of URLs in your sitemap, indexing priority of pages on your blog, updating frequency, etc.
Now, that you know about sitemap and its importance, let’s move on to the further steps.
Submit Blogger Sitemap To GoogleSearch Console
Below is the complete process you have to follow in terms to submit your blogspot blog sitemap to Google Search Console.
Submitting sitemap in Google Search Console Account.
Step 1: Sign in to your Google Search Console Account.
Step 2: Select the desired blog you wish to submit the sitemap.
Step 3: click on 3 line At the left side of the page and click on Sitemaps.
Step 4: Now, a new page open with text field and Submit button.
Step 5: Now, Add the below code in the provided text field.
https://www.fixiw.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=150
Note: This is the sitemap code for your blogger blog that you need to add. Replace Domain with your URLStep 6: Press “Submit ” button.
Step 7: Refresh the page! You will show your submitted Sitemap added.
Congratulation! You have finished the process of submitting your blog sitemap.
Note: The above sitemap will work for 150 posts only. If you have more than 150 posts published on your blog, then you have to add one more sitemap.alert-info
Currently a blogger blog/websites sitemap not crawl more 150 post. If you read this post and show photos, you will easily understood how to implement Sitemap.
The Whole procedure will be same, but at this time you have to add code like below.
https://yourblogurl.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=151&max-results=300
That’s it. You are done with submitting the sitemap for blog posts.
Make sure you read the complete article and I think You will find some valuable information.
SEE ALSO:
How to redirect a Blogger blog to another blog Site [301 Redirect automatically]
Conclusion
This was the step by step guide on how to add Blogger sitemap to Google Search Console.
Now, it’s your time to try this tutorial and let us know if it was helpful for you or not.
Also, let us know how submitting sitemap to Google Search Console affected your website.
Please share your views with me on the effects of adding the sitemap and let me know in the comments if you need any help in submitting your blog sitemap.
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