How to Submit Blogger Sitemap to Google via Webmaster Tools or Custom Robots.txt

The XML Sitemap file is like a directory of all web pages that exist on your website or blog. Search engines like Google and Bing can use these sitemap files to discover pages on your site that the search bots may have otherwise missed during regular crawling. The default XML sitemap file of any Blogger blog will have only the 26 most recent blog posts.

That’s a limitation because some of your older blog pages, that are missing in the default XML sitemap file, may never get indexed in search engines. There’s however a simple solution to fix this problem.

Method 1: Submit Blogger Sitemap to Google via Webmaster Tools

1: If you haven't done this already, sign-in to your Google Webmasters account and add your blog

2: Once your blog is added to Google, go to Webmaster Dashboard and click on your site address

3: On the left panel choose Site Optimization >> Sitemaps - then click on Add/Test Sitemap

4: Now add the following code and click Submit Sitemap


If your blog have lots of pages (more than 500) then add the sitemaps like the following pattern:

Method 2: Submit Blogger Sitemap to Google via Custom Robots.txt

1: Go to your Blogger dashboard and select Settings from drop down menu

2: Click Search Preferences, the enable Custom robots.txt option (available in the Crawling and Indexing section).

3: Now copy one of the following code (according to your need) and paste here (in custom robots.txt section) and save your changes


For those who have more than 500/1000 blog posts


4: Now replace www.YOUR-BLOG-ADDRESS.com with the URL of your blog and you're done. Search engines will automatically discover your XML sitemap files via the robots.txt file and you don’t have to ping them manually.