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How to create and add Google sitemap to Blogger

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A sitemap is essentially a list of pages which are a part of the website, accessible to web crawlers and even users. Sitemaps are important because they allow search engines like Google and Bing to discover pages on your website, which otherwise crawlers might have missed during regular crawling. A typical sitemap look something like this What is the problem with Blogger sitepmap files? An complete sitemap file should mention all pages of a site but that’s not the case if your blog is hosted on Blogger. 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 . How to generate a complete sitemap for your blogger blog? This section is valid for both regular Blogger blogs (that use a .blogspot.com address) and also the self-hosted Blo...