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~~M(caps)~~any blogger wants proper and and efficient higher rank up of their blog in many search engine specially Google. Creating a blog in blogger is not just creating contents but you need also consider how search engines crawl your pages and post. As an owner of blogger Web, you have full control on how search engines crawl your website post and pages. To control search engines to crawl your blog post and pages, you need to setup proper sitemap and indexing.

What is sitemap?

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Sitemap are directions of the over-all links of your website where search engines like Google have guide on where to crawl and which pages and post are not allow to be crawl .

A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to crawl your site more efficiently. A sitemap tells Google which pages and files you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these files. For example, when the page was last updated and any alternate language versions of the page.-Google developer

In blogger, there are only two important and best types of sitemap you need to create. The HTML SITEMAP AND XML SITEMAP.

What is html sitemap?

Html sitemap is design for viewers of your website or blog. Except of using search button,your viewers can navigate all the links of post and pages of your Weblog through the html sitemap.

Html sitemap is also a page directory of your weblog, whereas viewers and users of your weblog access and navigate all post and pages without using search button.

An HTML sitemap is intended for users of your site. Generally, this type of sitemap provides links to the pages in your site, and may provide descriptions of those pages. We encourage the use of HTML sitemaps. They make it easier for users to navigate your site.-Google developer

How to create html sitemap

To create html sitemap is very easy if you are pikitemplates user.

Just kindly follow the instructions below.

1.0 Copy the Code below.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/pikitemplates/scripts/sitemap.js" type="text/javascript"></script><link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/pikitemplates/scripts/sitemap-css.css" rel="stylesheet"/><script src="/feeds/posts/summary?alt=json-in-script&max-results=9999&callback=pikisitemap" type="text/javascript"></script>(code-box)

Note: Best result for piki template users.

1.1 Go to your blogger dashboard ang create new page .(see figure below)

1.2 Choose html mode and paste the code.(see figure below)

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1.3 Click update or save. Now you have successfully created your html sitemap.

After the successful created sitemap. Your sitemap look like below figure.

And now that we're done on html sitemap.

Let's proceed to xml sitemap.

What is xml sitemap?

Xml sitemap is the best tool for bloggers to rank up their blog in Google and Bing. Without xml sitemap, Search engines will not properly crawl your Web page and your seo would be affected.

Search engines like Google will properly index your posts and page if you have xml sitemap.

How to create xml sitemap?

Creating xml sitemap is simple. The code below is an example of xml sitemap to be setup in blogger. Kindly follow the instructions.

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2.0 Transfer the code below to notepad and edit the red color which should be the domain name of your blog and copy again.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://www.pinoywritings.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.pinoywritings.com/sitemap-pages.xml(code-box)

2.1 Go to Blogger Dashboard> Blogger Setting > Crawlers and indexing > Custom robots.txt and paste the code and click save(see figure below).Yeheeey! your sitemap is successfully done.

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If sitemap does not work.Generate your sitemsp here and go back to instruction 2.1.

Oops! Wait! that is not the end. There are still important additional setup related to sitemap.This setup was shared here because sharing is caring as said in pikitemplates article.

How to setup sitemap in GSC?

Go to your "Google Search Console(GSC)" dashboard here then select sitemap from the left sidebar menu and copy the two sitemaps link (for posts/pages) and paste one by one, and then submit to google correctly. See the below attached demo screenshots.

How to setup Custom Robots txt?

Go to blogger dashboard click on blogger setting under Crawling and Indexing section tap on Enable Custom Robots.txt then set up the indexing option like we provide in the below-attached screenshots.

4.0 For Home and Posts Pages use these same settings provide in the below screenshot, here we set the index to follow option so that home and pages can be index by search engines.

4.1 For Archived Pages use the same setting provide in the below screenshot, here we set noindex and noodp options because we don't want to index archive pages.

Sharing is caring. Thanks to the original article PIKITEMPLATE.

Create best sitemap and set up for blogger and proper indexing of your post and pages to have efficient rank up of your blog in search engines