Lorene Melone
How To Submit Your Blogger Sitemap to Google Search Console Successfully
How to Add Your Blogger Sitemap to Google Search Console
Introduction
If your Blogger site isn’t showing up properly in Google search or isn’t getting indexed fast enough, submitting your sitemap is often the missing step. It’s kind of weird, but just throwing your URL into Google Search Console doesn’t automatically tell Google what all to crawl. So, you gotta do this manually. This process will walk through how to find that sitemap URL and submit it properly. Not super complicated, but yeah, missing this step can delay your blog’s discoverability quite a bit.
Step-by-Step Guide
Method 1: Find the Sitemap URL & Prepare
- Log into Blogger at Blogger.com, sign in with your Google account, and pick your blog.
- In the dashboard, go to Settings > Search preferences.
- Scroll down to Crawlers and indexing. If you see Custom robots.txt enabled, turn that off. Why? Because it can interfere with how Google reads your sitemap.
- Your sitemap URL is usually just your blog’s URL with
/sitemap.xmladded at the end. So if yours ishttps://myblog.blogspot.com, then sitemap ishttps://myblog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml. Easy enough, but worth double-checking it loads in a browser to make sure it’s there.
On some setups, that URL won’t load right away or might show an error. In those cases, give it a minute or two, clear cache or try incognito mode just in case, and if it still refuses, you might need to verify your blog’s settings or see if your sitemap is hidden behind something else.
Method 2: Submit to Google Search Console
- Open a new tab, go to Google Search Console.
- Click Start now (if you haven’t already set it up).
- Click Add property in the top left, and choose URL prefix.
- Type in your full blog URL, like
https://yourblog.blogspot.com. Confirm and wait for Google to verify that you own the site. Sometimes that’s automatic; other times, it asks you to verify ownership via HTML tag or DNS record. Just follow what it says. - Once verified, you’ll land on the dashboard. Hit Sitemaps in the left menu.
- In the Add a new sitemap box, just type
sitemap.xmland click Submit.
Expect a brief delay, then a message saying it was received. On some setups, it takes a little longer for Google to process it, so don’t panic if you don’t see immediate results. Just check back in or look for errors later in Search Console’s reports.
Extra tips & Troubleshooting
Sometimes that sitemap link might not work as expected. Or, the verification in Search Console can act stubborn. A quick tip—if verification fails, double-check your ownership method (HTML tag is usually simplest). Because of course, WordPress, Blogger, or custom domains all have their quirks.
If your sitemap isn’t showing up or Google says it can’t access it, verify that your blog isn’t behind a restricted robots.txt or some privacy setting. Also, on some setups, submitting the sitemap once isn’t enough—resubmit after major updates or new content to keep Google in the loop.
Final thoughts
Getting this right helps Google’s crawlers understand your site structure better, meaning your posts can pop up faster in search. It’s kinda overlooked sometimes, but once you get the hang of it, it’s a quick win for SEO. Just make sure your sitemap is regularly updated if you’re adding heaps of new content or changing things around.
Summary
- Find your sitemap URL by adding /sitemap.xml to your blog URL
- Verify ownership in Google Search Console
- Submit the sitemap and wait for confirmation
Fingers crossed this helps someone shave off a few hours of frustration. It worked for me — hope it works for you.