How to Submit Your Blogger Sitemap to Google Search Console (2026)

Blogger creates a sitemap for your blog automatically, whether it's on yourblog.blogspot.com or a custom domain like www.yourblog.com. You just need to tell Google where it is. This guide shows how to submit a Blogger sitemap to Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) and Bing, and fixes the errors people most often hit.

Your Blogger sitemap URLs

Replace www.example.com with your blog address (custom domain or blogspot.com):

Open them in your browser. You should see XML listing your posts. If you see an error, check that your blog is public: Settings → Permissions → Reader access → Public, and Settings → Crawlers and indexing → Visible to search engines is on.

Step 1: Add your blog to Search Console

1. Go to Google Search Console and click Add property.
2. Custom domain: choose Domain and enter example.com (without www). Verify by adding the TXT record Google gives you at your domain registrar (Namecheap, GoDaddy, Cloudflare...). This covers both www and the bare domain.
3. blogspot.com address: choose URL prefix and enter https://yourblog.blogspot.com/. If you're signed in with the same Google account that owns the blog, it's often verified instantly. Otherwise use the HTML tag method below.

Verifying with the HTML tag on Blogger

Copy the meta tag Google shows, then in Blogger go to Theme → ▾ → Edit HTML and paste it right after <head>:

<head>
  <meta name="google-site-verification" content="AbC123...your-code..." />

Click Save, then Verify in Search Console. Blogger templates are XML, so the tag must end with /> or Blogger will refuse to save.

Step 2: Submit the sitemap

1. In Search Console, open Indexing → Sitemaps.
2. Enter sitemap.xml and click Submit.
3. Submit sitemap-pages.xml the same way.

The status changes to Success within a few hours or days, with the number of discovered URLs.

Step 3: Use a custom robots.txt (optional)

Blogger's default robots.txt is fine for most blogs. If you want to add your sitemaps to it, go to Settings → Crawlers and indexing, turn on Enable custom robots.txt, and use:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

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

Sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap-pages.xml

• Mediapartners-Google is the AdSense crawler. Leaving it unblocked lets AdSense show relevant ads.
• Disallow: /search stops label and search-result pages from being indexed as thin duplicate pages.

Step 4: Submit to Bing too

In Bing Webmaster Tools, choose Import from Google Search Console. Your verified blog and sitemaps are copied over, and Bing results also appear on Yahoo and DuckDuckGo.

Fixing common sitemap errors

Moving a blog to a custom domain?

When you switch from blogspot.com to your own domain in Settings → Custom domain, Blogger redirects old URLs to the new ones automatically. Add the new domain as a property in Search Console and submit its sitemap.xml. Keep the old blogspot.com property so you can watch traffic move over.

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