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

If you have just launched your brand-new Blogger site, customized your theme, and published your first few incredibly well-written articles, you might be wondering why your posts are completely absent from Google search results. It is a frustrating feeling to pour hours into content only to have zero traffic. The answer is usually remarkably simple: Google literally does not know your site exists yet.

To fix this invisibility problem, you need to explicitly submit a sitemap directly to Google Search Console (GSC). Think of a sitemap as a comprehensive directory, a table of contents, or a digital roadmap for your blog. It hands Google's web crawlers a direct, organized list of every single post, image, and page you have written, explicitly asking the search engine to crawl and index them into their global database. Without it, Google has to stumble upon your site by accident through external links.

Here is the exact, fail-proof, step-by-step process to submit your Blogger sitemap to Search Console and get your site ranking on the first page in 2026.

Table of Contents

• What You Need Before You Start
• Step 1: Open Google Search Console
• Step 2: Navigate to the Sitemaps Report
• Step 3: Enter Your Blogger Sitemap URLs
• Step 4: Verify the "Success" Status
• Troubleshooting: What if it says "Couldn't Fetch"?
• Next Steps for Ultimate Blogger SEO

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What You Need Before You Start

Before rushing to submit your sitemap URLs, you must ensure you have laid the proper foundational groundwork. If you skip these prerequisites, you will likely encounter frustrating verification errors. Ensure you have completed the following two steps:

• A Google Account: You absolutely must be logged into the exact same Google (Gmail) account that you use to access your Blogger administrator dashboard. Mixing up personal and business emails is the number one cause of permission errors in this process.
• Google Search Console Setup: You need to have already added your custom domain or Blogspot URL as a property in Google Search Console. (Pro Tip: Because Blogger is a native Google product, if you log into GSC with your primary Blogger email, Google will usually auto-verify your domain ownership instantly without requiring you to mess with DNS TXT records!)

Step 1: Open Google Search Console

Google Search Console is arguably the most powerful free SEO tool on the internet. It is the only place where Google communicates directly with website owners about how their site is performing in search results. Let's get logged in and find your specific blog.

1. Head over to the official Google Search Console website.
2. Click the prominent blue "Start Now" button and log in using your Blogger-associated Google credentials.
3. Once the dashboard loads, look at the very top-left corner of the screen. Click the property dropdown menu to ensure you have actively selected your correct Blogger website URL (e.g., https://www.rankyourblog.com). If you manage multiple sites, it is easy to accidentally submit a sitemap to the wrong property.

Before submitting your XML sitemap, verify you are working on the correct website by selecting your Blogger domain from the property dropdown menu in the top-left corner of Google Search Console.

Step 2: Navigate to the Sitemaps Report

The GSC dashboard can look incredibly intimidating to beginners, filled with complex charts regarding Core Web Vitals, manual actions, and performance metrics. We can ignore all of that for now and focus entirely on the indexing section.

1. On the main left-hand sidebar of the Google Search Console dashboard, scroll down slowly until you locate the section clearly labeled "Indexing".
2. Underneath that heading, click directly on the "Sitemaps" option. This will open the dedicated submission portal for your blog.

To access the submission tool, look at the left-hand sidebar of your Google Search Console dashboard, scroll down to the "Indexing" section, and click on "Sitemaps".

Step 3: Enter Your Blogger Sitemap URLs

Here is the fantastic news for Blogger users: Unlike WordPress, where you often need to install a heavy third-party plugin (like Yoast or RankMath) to generate a sitemap file, Blogger automatically creates and dynamically updates your sitemaps for you on their servers. You do not need to generate any code; you just need to know the correct, specific file names to type into GSC.

What many tutorials fail to mention is that you actually have two distinct sitemaps you should submit for a fully optimized Blogger site: one dedicated to your standard blog posts, and a separate one dedicated to your static pages (like your crucial Contact, Privacy Policy, or About pages). Let's submit them both.

1. Submit the Posts Sitemap

In the top panel titled "Add a new sitemap", your blog's main URL (e.g., https://www.rankyourblog.com/) will already be displayed in grey text as a prefix. You only need to type what comes after the forward slash.

1. In the blank space right next to your pre-filled URL, carefully type the following exact string: sitemap.xml (This means the final result Google reads will look like: https://www.rankyourblog.com/sitemap.xml)
2. Click the blue "Submit" button to send the file to Google's indexing queue.

Type sitemap.xml into the "Add a new sitemap" input field and click the blue Submit button to officially request Google to crawl and index your Blogger website.

2. Submit the Pages Sitemap

Once the first post sitemap is successfully submitted, we need to repeat the exact same process to ensure your static structural pages are also crawled. These pages are vital for establishing E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) with Google.

1. In the exact same blank "Add a new sitemap" space, carefully type: sitemap-pages.xml (This means the final result looks like: https://www.rankyourblog.com/sitemap-pages.xml)
2. Click the blue "Submit" button once again.

Step 4: Verify the "Success" Status

After you click submit, Google's servers will take a moment to ping your Blogger site and read the XML files. Immediately below the submission box, you will see a detailed log section titled "Submitted sitemaps" that tracks the history and health of your files.

Look closely at the Status column for both sitemap.xml and sitemap-pages.xml that you just entered. You will likely see one of two results:

• Success (in green text): This is exactly what you want! It means Google has successfully pinged your server, read your sitemap without encountering any syntax errors, and will actively begin crawling your posts. You are officially in the queue to be indexed.
• Couldn't Fetch (in red text): Don't panic. This looks scary, but it is actually an incredibly common, well-documented glitch in the Google Search Console dashboard, especially for newly registered domains.

After clicking submit, check the "Submitted sitemaps" table below. A green "Success" message in the Status column confirms that Google has officially received and processed your Blogger sitemap.

Troubleshooting: What if it says "Couldn't Fetch"?

If your status stubbornly says "Couldn't Fetch" and refuses to turn green, do not immediately start deleting things or changing your Blogger backend settings. Try these quick, proven fixes first:

1. Force a hard refresh of the page: Very often, GSC processes the sitemap successfully in the background, but the visual dashboard UI simply lags behind and fails to update. Hit refresh on your browser (or CTRL+F5 to clear the cache) and check again.
2. Check for spelling typos: This is the most common human error. Did you accidentally type sitemaps.xml (with an extra "s")? Did you accidentally add a space before the word? Ensure the file name is spelled absolutely perfectly.
3. Just wait patiently: If you are certain everything is spelled correctly and you have at least one published post on your blog (a completely empty blog will sometimes throw an error), Google's crawling bots might just be overloaded and busy. Leave the dashboard alone for 24 to 48 hours and check back later in the week. It will almost always magically change to "Success" on its own once a bot gets around to pinging your server.

Next Steps for Ultimate Blogger SEO

Submitting your sitemap to Google Search Console is a massive milestone in your blogging journey. You have officially invited Google to index your work! However, it is important to remember that this is only one foundational piece of the broader SEO puzzle. Now that Google is actively crawling your site, you need to ensure your site is technically optimized to rank highly against your competitors.

If you haven't optimized your Blogger foundational settings yet such as configuring custom robot header tags to prevent duplicate content, setting up custom permalinks, and enabling HTTPS redirects your site may still struggle to gain traction.

Highly Recommended Reading: Be sure to dive into our comprehensive masterclass, the Complete Blogger SEO Checklist: How to Rank on Google. This guide will walk you through the exact backend settings you must change to turn your Blogspot site into a traffic-generating machine!