Many new and professional bloggers using XML sitemap format like this https://example.com/atom.xml?redirect=.......... so on but this is the wrong sitemap, Officially google support developer's advice to use the sitemap which works for both Posts and Pages in blogger. The above wrong sitemap that you created is only for posts but not for your blogger pages, that's why the indexing and ranking of your blog and pages are not sufficient and fast as posts indexed into google.
Why pages are so important in Blogger? because pages in blogger is a smart way to rank, pages don't have a date and month number in the permalink so that you can use your keywords in page title so that the automatically generated permalink is treated more widely and looks fresh.
Remember that, if you're using our blogger templates then you can rank pages but not in other developers none of the other developers provide a schema, meta tags, description, etc. like stuff for pages. they provide only for posts, you can use the google Schema test tool to check whether our pages support schema and more SEO-friendly pages. After installing our blogger template, then use the below tool to generate the best compatible blogger sitemap.
Robots.txt Generator
Generate Robots.txt For Blogger
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Also, labels in blogger is a part that should be no-index, otherwise, it causes a duplicate content issue in google and down your ranking. so that we already use no-index tags in our blogger templates
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Then save the XML sitemap code in your blogger Dashboard.
How set up this sitemap in Blogger Setting?
Step (1): Go to Blogger Dashboard> Blogger Setting > Crawlers and indexing > Custom robots.txt and copy the above-generated sitemap and paste inbox and click save. That's done you have successfully generated blogger's best sitemap.
How to set up this sitemap in Google Webmaster?
Step (1): Go to your "Google Search Console" dashboard here then select sitemap in the left sidebar menu and copy the above-generated two-link (for posts and pages) and paste one by one and submit to google correctly as we pasted, see the below screenshot.
An XML sitemap is the most important tool for bloggers to index posts because google understands can be able to read and determine each page and post to rank, always be updated, and check out this blog for any new updates. Thanks for reading this article. Sharing is Caring, share this article with your friends and some knowns to understand how to generated Correct sitemap also you can write a Blog Post to aware all blogger right now.
In Last, see the setting for Custom Robots Pages, Posts, Archive. follow the instruction that we provide here
How to set up Custom Robots for Home, Posts, Pages, and Archive?
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.
(i) 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
(ii) 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.
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