The search engines fetch all URLs listed from the sitemap, crawl, and check whether the content is helpful for indexation. The sitemaps are more critical when there is weak internal linking of blog posts. It helps the search engine find the deep content and index for search results.
To increase the organic traffic of the Blogger blog, submit the XML sitemap file to Google Search Console. For this, you’ve to sign up for Google Search Console. Then, go to Google Search Console and click on Start Now, as shown below.
Now, this page redirects to Google Search Console, and you must verify your Blogger blog as a URL prefix. Go with the HTML tag method to confirm your website. You’ve to modify the Blogger template to add the HTML tag. And then click verify. After site verification, go to the sitemap option in the left-hand side menu below.
You may consider domain verification if you have a custom domain using multiple subdomains.
2. and enter sitemaps for posts and pages.
- sitemap.xml
- sitemap-pages.xml
4. After the successful submission of the sitemap, a success message will appear. (If it results in an error, please refresh the page.)
Now all processes are done, it might show the number of posts or pages on the website or show processing data.
Final Words
This article discussed getting the latest XML sitemap for Blogger and submitting that sitemap to the Google Search Console and a robots.txt file that includes the posts’ and pages’ site map.