If you own or manage a website or blog, you have probably used Google's Webmaster Tools. These tools allow you to track how your site is doing in Google's search results pages. If you are on Blogger, than your Sitemap gets added automatically. Let's see how you can find it.
When you start a Blogger blog, Blogger will automatically register your blog with Google's Webmaster tools. If you haven't done so, I suggest you sign up with and start using Google's Webmaster Tools to monitor your blog in Google.
Using Google's Webmaster Tools doesn't guarantee that your blog's posts will get listed, but it does show if there are any problems, who is linking to your blog, and what keywords people are searching for in Google.
The biggest benefit is that a Sitemap tells Google about the layout of your blog, which means it may find pages it might have missed without the Sitemap.
As mentioned, your blog is automatically registered with the Webmaster Tools, and your Sitemap is also submitted. To see if the Sitemap is submitted, you can use the following steps:
- Log into Google's Webmaster tools.
- Click the your blog's link in your dashboard.
- From the menu on the left, click "Site Configuration" link to expand the list.
Webmaster Tools - Site Configuration link
(Click to enlarge) - Next, click the "Sitemaps" link to display a list of Sitemaps for your Blogger blog.
Webmaster Tools - Sitemaps link
(Click to enlarge) - A list of your Sitemaps are displayed. Click the "All" link on the right to see all your Sitemaps.
Webmaster Tools - Sitemaps list
(Click to enlarge) - All Sitemaps currently registered in Webmaster Tools are display, which includes sitemaps that were automatically detected by Google that you didn't submit.
Webmaster Tools - List of all Sitemaps
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The robots.txt file of your Blogger blog automatically contains the location of the Sitemap for your blog. This is what Google finds and uses when it crawls your site.
Of course, you can also manually submit a Sitemap if you choose. There is no harm in adding another. You can easily add a sitemap for your Blogger blog into Google's Webmaster tools yourself.
