How to Upload XML Sitemap File to Blogger/BlogSpot Blog

Sitemap is very important for a website. XML sitemap increase your website visibility for crawler access. Google crawler can read easily XML Sitemap. XML sitemap protocol is specifically designed for spiders.
XML site map file can be created manually or by using sitemap generator tools and It is easy to upload in a website root directory. The XML file called sitemap.xml created and easily uploaded in the root directory.
But problems arise when you are trying to upload XML sitemap file to a Blogger or BlogSpot blog. So how you will submit your sitemap.xml for your Blogger or BlogSpot blog / site when you can't upload one to the root dir. Yesterday I was searching the term "How to upload sitemap.xml file to blogger blog" than I thought that there will be lots of peoples who are searching for the same terms.
We can easily upload the XML sitemap in blogger or BlogSpot blog. There is very simple way to submit your blogs sitemap to the blogger/BlogSpot blog.

Step1: Just login to your Google webmaster account. If you did not add your blog in webmaster account, just add your blog.
Step2. After that click on your blog and in left side panel click on Site Configuration and click on Sitemaps.
Step3: Click on Submit a sitemap button and write - "atom.xml" without quotes.

You are done, Wait for some time while Search engine will crawl and index all the pages.

17 comments:

  1. I have done what you say but only a small part of my pages show up in the index.

    I have created a sitemap with an external generator, how can I upload my xml file to the blogger server?

    thanks!

    Marco

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  2. Thanks for the post indeed, rather useful!

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  3. Thanks for this great post. Very useful.

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  4. Hey thanks for your info man. I have a question. I have generated a sitemap.xml from external generator. How to upload to my blog? Could you pls clarify my doubt?

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  5. If you have blogger blog just login into webmaster account and click on submit sitemap >> and here just write 'atom.xml ...and click on submit.

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  7. Huh.. after ading "atom.xml" the test result shows "Sitemap contains only 26 pages".

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  8. thank you very much.....Great 1

    Now have to add my site to Google Webmaster

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  9. I have used http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ to create sitemap.xml file. Now i need to upload sitemap.xml to my blogger website, how do i do it? I need to do it because I have to submit sitemap to bing search engine.

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  11. I have done what you say but only a small part of my pages show up in the index.

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  12. Thanks for this. Is it done the same way for Bing?

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  13. Thanks for sharing valued information...

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  14. Finally a solution! Thank you very much for this post!

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