19 April 2013

XML sitemap is essential for every blog or website. Search engine crawlers index any blog or site through sitemap. Blogger have auto-generated sitemap for first 26 posts. But if you want to crawl more links then you need to configure sitemap manually.

Steps to generate XML Sitemap:

1. First, visit here (http://ctrlq.org/blogger/) to generate sitemap. Paste your blogger full url includding http:// and generate sitemap.


2. Copy the below generated text code.

3. Now Go to blogger dashboard >> Settings >> Search Preferences

4.Yo u will find “Crawlers and indexing” box there & then “Custom robots.txt”, it was disable in auto-config blogger. You need to Edit & enable it by clicking the “yes” option. Then a box appear, you need to paste the sitemap content in here. Then “Save Changes”.
Your sitemap is add now in your blogger and Search engines will automatically discover your XML sitemap through robots.txt & start crawl your site.

Note: If you see the sitemap code carefully, then you find that this code is for first 500 posts. If you have more then 500 posts then your code look like.

Like that. Next step is Copy the entire code and follow the 3 & 4 steps.

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