How to Create sitemap for blogger 2021
How to Create sitemap for blogger 2021

Introduction

Hello, this is Abdul Ahad from Crazy Editing studio. Today I am going to explain what a Site Map is, and how they can benefit your website. 

What is sitemap

A site map is basically a table of contents for your website, or an index. It lists all the pages of your website, or the important ones, so people and Search Engine Bots can easily navigate through all the pages.

How a sitemap works


To understand how a sitemap works to benefit your website, we first need to understand how Search Engines gather their content and surf websites. When a Search Engine Bot, sometimes called spiders, visits a website, it sees a style free website. The style is not required since the spider is only after the text, links, and the URL to the images. 


A sample on what a spider is this. I am showing a few styles still, so you can understand the importance of each tag on a website. The larger text, which are headers in HTML are more important than the content. Do note that the size of the text isn't the important part, the size is only for visual understanding. 


Once the search engine grabs all the content of that page, it goes onto the next page. To go to the next page, it needs a link to it. It grabs all the links from the page it was just on, puts them in a queue and the spider then visits them. The same process is done until all URL's that are found and visited. This is where a site map comes in. 


Instead of a bot possibly missing a URL due to limits of the spider, or a specific set of rules to only search certain pages, a site map contains all the important links you want to make sure a spider will visit. Site Maps can be in many different formats, such as XML Files, but I prefer having it in HTML and with the rest of the site. 

Benefits


So it benefits users as much as it benefits search engines. Now that a sitemap is being used, you could possibly gain more visitors because more content is being stored in search engines. There will be more posts, topics, comments, and tags stored so when someone searches for a keyword, on a page that would of been skipped by the bot, they will see your website in the search results. 

How to create it


To create a site map, there are generators online, but they usually cost money for full access, and they are not worth it. If you are running a WordPress site, there are plugins that are site maps. But most WordPress sites are setup fairly well that they usually don't require a site map. 


If you want a site map for a small website, that isn't dynamic, or fully coded in HTML, you can usually just enter the URL's manually since you are less likely to change content, or change the URL structure. But if you are running a dynamic website, and want a site map, you can make a custom PHP file, or other scripting language, and have it grab information from your database to create the site map.


Follow These below Steps:


1. Go to google.com and type in search bar " sitemap generator for blogger".

2. Click on the first website.

3. After clicking, you will see a small text box in which you have paste your blog URL.

4. After, Click on button generate sitemap.

5. After this, your sitemap will generated.

6. So, copy the generated sitemap from "user agents" to end.

7. Then go Blogger Dashboard and click on setting.

8. After click, Scroll down and you will see "Crawlers and indexing".

9. Below this, you will see "Enable custom robots.txt"

10. By default, that option is closed. So firstly you on this.

11. Now you will see "Custom robots.txt" click on it and a popup appear.

12. In the popup, paste the generated sitemap and click on save.

13. Finally, your sitemap add on your blog.

Some other settings you should do


1. After above 13 steps, you will see "Enable custom robots header tags".

2. By default, that option is closed, so ON it.

3. After this, see following options:

  • Home page tags 
  • Archive and search page tags 
  • Post and page tags 
4. When you click in each option you will see following options:

  • all
  • noindex
  • nofollow
  • none
  • noarchive
  • nosnippet
  • noodp
  • notranslate
  • noimageindex
  • unavailable_after

5. For " Home page tags " ON only "all" and "noodp"

6. For " Archive and search page tags " ON only "noindex" and "noodp"

7.  For " Post and page tags " ON only "all" and "noodp"


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