how to create and submit a sitemap on blogspot

What is a sitemap?

A sitemap is basically a registry of every last one of pages existing on your webpage, for example a chapter by chapter guide indicating the structure of your web journal. Sitemaps help internet searchers creep your webpage and file it appropriately. Internet searchers will creep your website assuming that you have a sitemap or not, however this makes the methodology less demanding and speedier for them. 

Bloggers default XML sitemap just shows later blog entries – which is about 26 posts. We need to search engine spiders to know the structure of your blog, so that it can easily understand and index it.

How to create a sitemap for blogspot?

Creating a sitemap on Blogspot is very easy,  So simply add your blog name to the link given below:

Blogger Default URL:http://blogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Blogger Custom URL
http://blogname.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

A Single sitemap record ought not be surpass 50Mb which is the reason we constrain it to max comes about 500. You may need to alter this relying upon on how big your feed is.. Now we've to tell internet searchers that this is your website map. To do this, we add it to your robots.txt index and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools. 

Add blogger sitemap to robots.txt File:

Go to Blogger >> Dashboard >> Settings >> Search Preferences & click edit the custom robots.txt file. And Click enable and paste the following adding your blogname..

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
 
Sitemap: http://blogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500 

The above thing means that search engines can index your entire site or blog (Allow: /) apart from your blogs search results (Disallow: /search) which is great in light of the fact that that might be recognized copy pages.

Adding site map to Google webmaster tools:

Now login to Google Webmaster Tools and select your blog.  ThenOn the left click Crawl >> Sitemaps >> Add/Test Sitemap. Now You will see your blog name and a text input box, paste:

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500,

And test for errors and submit.

Google will now start to crawl your blog and will index your site. To submit your sitemap to Bing, Then Simpy login to Bings Webmaster Tools, add your's Blog URL, verify ownership & After then submit your site map. It may take almost  some days for your site to be indexed in Bing.