How to create a sitemap on Blogger and submit it to Google and Bing

A sitemap is simply a directory of all the pages existing on your site, like a table of contents showing the structure of your blog. Sitemaps help search engines crawl your site and index it properly.

Search engines will crawl your site if you have a sitemap or not, but this makes the process easier and quicker for them. We want search engine spiders to know your blogs structure so that they can easily understand and index it.

How to create a sitemap on Blogger in 2022

Google now automatically create a sitemap for your Blogger blog in your root directory. This makes the process a whole lot easier, all you have to do now is submit your sitemap to Google and Bing Webmaster Tools. The sitemap is available at the following URLs.

Blogger – Default URL
http://blogname.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

Blogger – Custom URL
http://www.blogname.com/sitemap.xml

This new default sitemap is automatically added to the default robots.txt file, so you don’t have to create a custom one. making the process a lot easier.

The sitemap file also contains links to pages like http://blogname.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml?page=1.

Adding the Blogger sitemap to Google and Bing Webmaster Tools

Now login to Google Webmaster Tools. Add or select your blog. On the left click Crawl > Sitemaps > Add/Test Sitemap.

You’ll see your blog name and a text input box. Paste sitemap.xml in the field and test for errors. Once the test results come back okay, redo the steps but this time press submit.

Adding Blogger Sitemap to Google and Bing Webmaster Tools

Google will now start to crawl and index your site. You can check what pages have been indexed on the Webmaster Tools. To submit your sitemap to Bing, login to Bings Webmaster Tools, add your URL, verify ownership and then submit your sitemap. It may take a few days for your site to be indexed.

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Yes, we set it at 500 posts because single sitemaps shouldn’t exceed around 50mb. I’ve updated the post to include information about adding multiple sitemaps for blogs with more than 500 posts.

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This is a very great article for beginners, thank you so much i really appreciate this tutorial and applied it to my blog.

If you’re using the Blogger platform it’s done exactly the same with a custom url as is a blogspot url, see “Blogger – Custom URL” under the heading “how to create a sitemap for blogger” for the site map link.

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I just wanted to say thank you. Your website has been consistently helpful in managing my blog. I find myself coming back to it again and again in Google searches. This in particular was a very clear post with accurate information.

hey… just dropping a comment to say thank you for this useful article… it saves me some time figuring it out how to attached a sitemap for blogger blog. ..

I’m new to blog. I’ve created a Blog with domain but it is hosted in blogger, so I don’t know how to add sitemap like you have said how to mention the blog name.

The steps above will show you how to add it. See “Blogger – Custom URL” under the heading “How to create a sitemap for Blogger” for your site map URL.

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Hey Thanks Ellie 🙂
I finally succeeded in adding up. You can please update more articles on Blogger SEO tricks .

Thank you Ellie for the post, and I also want to inform you that adding /sitemap.xml in front does not only index recent posts, it also indexes all the posts. (I am not sure if this works for custom domains on blogger)

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This guide doesn’t work for me.
I got 1500+ articles on my blog, but even if i added 3 sitemap to robot.txt (1-500; 501-1000; 1001-1500), when i insert the links pointing to the 3 sitemaps on Google Search Console (former webmaster tool page), it only finds 151 pages for the first sitemap, the same 151 for the second and again 151 for the third, all the same.
Someone else got this problem too?

Thank you so much! I have added a sitemap to google and bing.

All i have to do now is add 500+ posts to my blog so that google and bing wouldn’t be left with a sitemap ready to crawl all dressed up and no place to go! LOL

Thanks for the post, i just wanted to ask you that how many blogger posts should i have before i try to create and submit sitemap for blogger any idea, please guide me.

I just happened a few days ago to create a blog on blogspot. My blog has not been verified and submit sitemap to google webmaster tool. After reading this article I immediately practice it.

Thanks admin

Thank you for sharing this awesome post with us. It was really helpful for me because i was looking for such kind of post for my site.

hello, I use my own domain name on blogger. my sitemap has only 69 posts but my blog has a total of 89 posts, what does this mean? and is there a post limit for sitemaps? I’m a proper newbie, pls help. thanks

Great Post! Thanks for this informative post and the good thing is that you can build sitemap online. A sitemap reveals the initial definition of what you are going to offer on your website. This gives you an opportunity to make a good impression especially to new visitors who don’t have an idea how to navigate on your website. Simple structures work well but avoid the danger of making it too basic to be misunderstood. You can reference it in sitemaps, content strategies and functional specifications and it’s also a great way to show to the client what you are planning to build them.