How to Add a Google Sitemap for Blogger Blogs

I have seen many questions regarding adding a Sitemap to Google’s Webmaster Tools for a Blogger blog. Many people don’t know that you already have a Sitemap-ready file created for you by Blogger, and that all you need to do is use that one in Webmaster Tools.

In this post I will look at adding your Blogger blog’s Sitemap to the Webmaster Tools so you can keep track of your pages using those tools.

Sitemap

A Sitemap is an XML file that contains specific information about the various pages that make up your web site or blog. Various online tools use Sitemaps to collect additional information about your web site.

Google’s Webmaster Tools uses your Sitemap to collection information about how often the pages on your site change, the modified date of each page, and the relative importance of the pages. While most of the information about your site is retrieved when Google crawls your web site, a Sitemap will complement this information with the additional information provided by your Sitemap.

It is important to keep in mind, however, that submitting a Sitemap will not influence the location of your pages in Google’s results pages, nor is it a guarantee that the pages listed in your Sitemap will be indexed by Google.

Your Blogger Blog’s Sitemap

By default, Blogger creates to feeds for you blog: an RSS and Atom feed. As you publish a post on your blog, the two feeds are updated with the new post’s information. This is great because Google’s Webmaster Tools can accept an Atom feed as a Sitemap.

There are currently two ways that you can add a Sitemap from your Blogger blog to Google’s webmaster Tools:

  1. By clicking a link and having Blogger do it for you.
  2. Manually adding one yourself.

Let’s look at both methods, and you can choose which one you prefer.

Having Blogger Add a Sitemap

Recently Blogger provided the ability to add a Sitemap for you. You can do this by using the following steps:

  1. Login to Blogger.
  2. From you dashboard, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
  3. Under Tools and Resources, click the Webmaster Tools link.

This should add all your blogger blogs to Webmaster Tools. If you are having trouble with this method, you can try adding it manually yourself.

Adding a Sitemap Manually

Sign up with Google’s Webmaster Tools and the log in. Add your site to the tool so it is displayed on your dashboard and perform any site verification. Once this is done, you can then add a sitemap.

  1. From the Webmaster Tools dashboard, click the Add link beside your blog URL.
  2. From the type dropdown list, select Add General Web Sitemap.
  3. In the text box (beside the domain name), enter in atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=50000. This will use your atom feed as your Sitemap and use the information for the first 50,000 pages listed in that file. Chances are you won’t have nearly 50,000 pages, but this is to ensure that all your pages are included.
  4. Once you have added your Sitemap location, click the Add General Web Sitemap button at the bottom.

After a little while Google will indicate if it managed to find and download your Sitemap, which you can see from your dashboard, or from the Sitemaps section with the Webmaster Tools.

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58 Comments

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  2. Posted March 27, 2013 at 8:09 pm | Permalink

    Thank you for this easy-to-follow procedure.

  3. Posted December 21, 2012 at 5:59 pm | Permalink

    if we send a sitemap to google and then post new posts after sending does it index faster on google or takes more time?

  4. Posted December 21, 2012 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    Thanks! You were the first one with a straight answer on how blogger user’s should add SiteMap to the blog.

    wildan a

  5. Posted October 15, 2012 at 1:40 am | Permalink

    thanks again, it works!

  6. Posted October 10, 2012 at 9:04 am | Permalink

    Great post!! was actually searching for it! thanks for clearing all my doubts in regards to submitting sitemap for blogs thanks for it

  7. Neha Ahire
    Posted September 27, 2012 at 2:51 am | Permalink

    It was Great, so Simple, Thanks A Lot
    http://beautitipscollection.blogspot.com

  8. Posted September 22, 2012 at 2:36 pm | Permalink

    I have difficulty plz someone can help me out?

  9. Posted September 4, 2012 at 7:55 am | Permalink

    I am in a problem in doing this.I get error when I ‘ve done it.

  10. Posted August 26, 2012 at 12:17 pm | Permalink

    thanks so so much i will try this tonight

  11. Posted August 25, 2012 at 10:51 am | Permalink

    i have some problems to submit sitemap …….how can i find these problems

  12. Posted August 1, 2012 at 8:22 am | Permalink

    thanks for the tip, i added two sitemaps for myself xDD
    my site http://www.thecodertips.com

  13. Posted July 26, 2012 at 5:34 am | Permalink

    icant add my sitemap to yahoo and ask .com please say me what ?s the wrong thing for me

    ismy s?temap wrong plese chech it im not a spemmer or wrong person im a seo

    http://www.mobilyala.com/sitemap.xml

  14. Posted July 20, 2012 at 4:32 pm | Permalink

    I have been using Blogger for quite some time and I didn’t even know this.

    Thanks, I will add this to my list :)
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  15. Posted June 5, 2012 at 6:40 am | Permalink

    Thanks for sharing about sitemap tools. But bing webmaster do not accept my sitemap
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  16. Posted April 11, 2012 at 2:26 pm | Permalink

    Ty for the tips

  17. Posted April 6, 2012 at 11:44 am | Permalink

    Hi,

    This is a great blog… Bookmarked…

    I was really struggling with the sitemap thing.

    Thanks a lot
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  18. Posted March 2, 2012 at 2:20 am | Permalink

    I know this post is quite old, but a lot of the info is still good today. Thank you for providing it.
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    • Posted March 2, 2012 at 7:59 am | Permalink

      Thanks, Nez. I believe the information is still valid for today as RSS feeds can be submitted as sitemaps.

  19. Posted February 13, 2012 at 6:53 pm | Permalink

    Im lookjing for this for quite sometimes. Thanks I got it here! This is ok for me!

  20. Posted November 6, 2011 at 12:34 pm | Permalink

    I did this for my site and it helped me alot.
    Was searching for this kind of information.

    Thanks a lot.

  21. Posted October 24, 2011 at 8:55 am | Permalink

    Thank you very much if not the info inyour site, I wasnt able to add site map to my blog. Thank you very much and God bless

  22. Posted October 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

    hi., i have added atom.xml sitemap to webmaster, but when i check my blog on pearanalytics site, i get no sitemap.xml error, what i do?
    i have my sitemap.xml file on my pc, how do i upload the file to root directory,
    as a blogger, is it possible to submit

    • Posted October 24, 2011 at 8:15 am | Permalink

      If you have a sitemap, then it should be located on the root of your web site. Both the atom and RSS feeds can also be used as sitemaps.

  23. Posted September 9, 2011 at 3:55 am | Permalink

    Thanks for help. I will add xml site map on my website.

  24. Posted August 31, 2011 at 9:28 am | Permalink

    Thanks VERY MUCH…
    i just try it and it work very well on my blog, thanks…

  25. Posted July 22, 2011 at 1:29 pm | Permalink

    Thanks paul..u have done a good job here..i heard about your posts from my friend..anyway..nw i became a fan of you..bookmarked you..thanks alot..hope things will work fine on my blogs..

  26. Posted July 17, 2011 at 1:33 pm | Permalink

    Thanks, this really help me.
    Even i’m so late to found this post but now i successfully submitted my sitemap to Google.

  27. Posted July 11, 2011 at 11:43 am | Permalink

    I have used the sitemaps as provided by you, but I needed to ask you one little thing: my submitted URLs show a total of 184; does it automatically include the new posts that I may write in the future?

    And thanks for this post!

    • Posted July 11, 2011 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

      Since you are using the blog’s feed as a sitemap, it is automatically updated when you publish a new post.

  28. Posted May 30, 2011 at 9:47 am | Permalink

    thankyou for your advice on this matter it was very usefull and saved a lot of head ache lol….

  29. Posted October 26, 2010 at 8:10 am | Permalink

    I was searching this type of post and finally found it. I have created a new blog and wanted to submit sitemap. I have successfully submitted my sitemap to Google. Thanks !!!

    • Posted October 26, 2010 at 9:36 am | Permalink

      No problem. With Blogger blogs, because the sitemap is listed in the robots.txt file, Google’s Webmaster tools will automatically pick it up anyway.

  30. Posted August 22, 2010 at 6:30 pm | Permalink

    I’ve had my blogspot blog for three years and had no clue how to add a sitemap.

    WordPress has a plugin for it but Blogger provide any info to create a sitemap.

    thanks

    • Posted August 22, 2010 at 8:51 pm | Permalink

      The good news if you have a Blogger blog is that sites such as Google’s Webmaster tools will automatically pick up your Blogger blog’s sitemap. The reason is because the sitemap is listed in your blog’s robots.txt file.

  31. Posted July 21, 2010 at 3:38 pm | Permalink

    It is helpful but can u guide how to agg stand alone page (not blog posts ) to sitemap ?
    pls

  32. Luis Carrillo
    Posted July 21, 2010 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    Thanks, this was very helpful.

  33. Posted July 12, 2010 at 7:13 am | Permalink

    thanks its great

  34. mim
    Posted June 29, 2010 at 11:47 pm | Permalink

    i have submitted my blog sitemap in this way but google in not indexing my page. how many days google takes to index page?

  35. Posted May 5, 2010 at 9:36 am | Permalink

    I was searching on the web were I can submit my sitemap for blogger blog and I saw you site in Google. I spend more time in reading some of your posts and honestly speaking I gain some knowledge from it. Very informative.

  36. Posted March 23, 2010 at 12:51 pm | Permalink

    I’ve just spent the last hour trying to do this. I’ve read over a dozen sites but by far yours is the best and works. Thank you so much. Fantastic…

  37. Ansar
    Posted January 31, 2010 at 9:11 am | Permalink

    Thank you for the Great post…

  38. Posted January 7, 2010 at 3:27 am | Permalink

    Great post!! I was actually searching for it!! thanks for clearing all my doubts in regards to submitting sitemap for blogs

  39. Posted January 3, 2010 at 7:31 pm | Permalink

    Thank you! You have the easiest and most clear instructions on adding sitemap to Blogger blogs.

  40. Posted December 14, 2009 at 11:53 am | Permalink

    This is what i looking for my blog http://www.digitdiary.blogspot.com 2-3 days ..good work

  41. Posted August 1, 2009 at 2:02 am | Permalink

    Thanks! You were the first one with a straight answer on how blogger user’s should add SiteMap to the blog. All other blogs I’ve searched told me to add it manually and, it wasn’t working!!!!

  42. Michael Jahn
    Posted July 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm | Permalink

    Adding a sitemap is not necessary and could lead to stale sitemaps – I explain why on my blog.

  43. Posted June 26, 2009 at 4:32 am | Permalink

    Thanks! that was really helpful :D

  44. Posted June 2, 2009 at 5:00 pm | Permalink

    finally i found how to put my google webmasters sitemap without showing warnings!!

  45. peatear
    Posted February 1, 2009 at 2:00 am | Permalink

    Phew…, after long hours searching up and down the net on how to submit a sitemap for my blog I finally did it!. Thanks a lot !!!:)

  46. Posted December 12, 2008 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

    thanks works real gr8

  47. Posted December 8, 2008 at 3:15 pm | Permalink

    thanks a lot ……… i going to add site map .

  48. Posted December 3, 2008 at 3:06 am | Permalink

    It’s not recommended to use 50000 as max-results. You should use a number from 100-500. As far as I know, 500 is the current limit of posts in your blogger feed.
    So it’s better to create multiple sitemaps in chunks of 500 rather than having one sitemap with 50000 results.

  49. Posted November 29, 2008 at 7:44 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for sharing. I did have to submit mine manually, but it was easy. I haven’t been getting much traffic from Google, so hope this helps.

  50. Posted November 26, 2008 at 1:46 pm | Permalink

    You don’t need to do much with your Sitemap once it has been added. Just ensure that Google can read your Sitemap by logging into Webmaster Tools once in a while.

    The Tools contain much more information than just allowing you to add a Sitemap.

  51. Posted November 26, 2008 at 1:15 pm | Permalink

    This one looks so incomplete…

    I know up to this much now. What next?

    Is it suffice just to add sitemap and sitback?

    NEED MORE ON THIS…
    :)

    Thanks!

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