A blog’s sitemap is a list of posts and pages available for public access. This list is usually index by crawlers and access by users or readers. A sitemap may be in a simple HTML format but modern web technology is use and recommend XML format. These formats are always in a hierarchical fashion. HTML sitemaps are user-friendly i.e. readable by humans. An XML sitemap is search engine friendly but not in a readable format for humans.
Top 3 Methods to Submit A Sitemap
1. Manual sitemap submission in Webmaster Tools
2. Sitemap Submission by Robots.txt
3. Sitemap submission by Ping
In this post, we will discuss how to ping your blog’s sitemap to major search engines Google, Bing, and Yandex.
Blogger blog’s sitemap is in XML format and can be found on this link.
https://www.techprevue.com/sitemap.xml
where you should replace www.techprevue.com with your blog address i.e. blogname.blogspot.com or www.example.com
One thing you should notice for custom domain users sitemap will not be like that
https://www.techprevue.com/sitemap.xml
and you’ll receive a 404 error/page not found an error. This is a Blogger bug. I have made a complaint about this issue and received a notice this issue will be resolved soon. But in this case, you can submit your blog’s sitemap by using this sitemap URL –
https://www.techprevue.com/sitemap.xml
where you should replace the URL www.techprevue.com with your custom domain.
Hereunder the links are to submit a sitemap via ping method to search engines –
http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://www.techprevue.com
http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=https://www.techprevue.com
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=https://www.techprevue.com
http://webmaster.yandex.com/site/map.xml?host=https://www.techprevue.com
Here an example is given below how to ping sitemap to search engines for custom domains with Blogger. You can ping or submit a sitemap with the exclusive method so enjoy both.
Sitemap Submission for A Custom Domain
Sitemap Submission to Google
http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://www.techprevue.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap Submission to Bing – Method 1
http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=https://www.techprevue.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap Submission to Bing – Method 2
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=https://www.techprevue.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap Submission to Yandex
http://webmaster.yandex.com/site/map.xml?host=https://www.techprevue.com/sitemap.xml
where you should replace www.techprevue.com with your blog address.
Sitemap Submission for A Blog without Custom Domain
If you do not own a custom domain for Blogger. Then you can ping your blog’s sitemap with the following method –
Sitemap Submission to Google
http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://techprevue.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap Submission to Bing – Method 1
http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=https://techprevue.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap Submission to Bing – Method 2
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=https://techprevue.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap Submission to Yandex
http://webmaster.yandex.com/site/map.xml?host=https://techprevue.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml
where you should replace techprevue.blogspot.com with your blog address.
Successful Sitemap Submission Messages
I hope now sitemap submission is not a big thing for you.
Conclusion
Sitemap submission is possible using the ping method for Google, Bing, and Yandex and each user receives a successful sitemap submission message in response after the finish of the sitemap ping process.
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Great Info Vinay!
Welcome Stephanie! :)
Hi Vinay,
I was looking for this one from past 2 to 3 months, Tried a lot but failed every time since I have my custom domain name. I will try this out and see if it does not work then I will communicate with your further. This post is like Bhagwaan ko dhoond rahaa hoon aur bhagwaan mil gaye .
Most welcome ji!
Great Post , there just one problem with yandex , not working for my blog
You have to manually submit the sitemap to yandex by creating a account. I will publish an article soon on this. You can try. Regards!
Thx. Great article.
Most welcome!