How to create and submit blogger XML sitemap to Google search console

        How to create and submit blogger XML sitemap to Google search console

Many people will be wondering what XML sitemap is,
Well a sitemap is a map of your site or blog. It contains all the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or links of all the pages in your blog.  This determines how search engines can navigate around your site and pull up searches.

When Google and other search engine crawlers, crawl new domains on the web and your site or blogger don't have a sitemap, will mostly be left behind and this will affect your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) negatively.

Now let me quickly show you how you can create an XML Sitemap and boost your SEO

First click on this link http://ctrlq.org/blogger and insert your blog URL in the format
https://yourblogdomain.blogspot.com or if you have your own custom domain as http://www.yourdomain.com or dot whatever and generate your XML Sitemap. See screenshot below👇
        How to create and submit blogger XML sitemap to Google search console
Here i used my blog URL as example so please like I said before replace with your own blog or site URL and click Generate Sitemap.

Next the XML file will appear, so copy all of it. See screenshot below.
         How to create and submit blogger XML sitemap to Google search console
Now go to https://blogger.com/ and login and click on settings then search preference, so on search preference you will see custom robots.txt click edit and select yes.
See screenshot👇
        How to create and submit blogger XML sitemap to Google search console
Now paste the XML file code on the box and click "save changes "

Now you have an XML Sitemap in your blogger and it's time we put in the Google Search Console for Google to check and validate to see if we are correct.

So since you are still in your blogger, on that section just before Custom robots.txt you will see "Google  Search Console". Click Edit to login. 

So since you are accessing the console for the first time, google will tell you to add your property and in this case your blog URL, click continue and follow the prompts, validate and add your URL to the Console. 
Just like https://yourdomain.blogspot.com or https://yourdomain.com or dot anything for those that have a custom domain.

Now on the top left part of the Google Console, click on those three lines as circled in the screen shot below to display Sitemap and then click on it
               How to create and submit blogger XML sitemap to Google search console
So after clicking on the Sitemap, a field opens for you to fill, asking for your sitemap URL. put your site or blog URL plus this Code👇
atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
See screenshot below
       How to create and submit blogger XML sitemap to Google search console
Now click submit and if you did everything right, Google will tell you Success and begin to crawl your posts and pages URLs. Congratulations your blogging abilities are getting better.

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