Blogger Sitemap.xml Now Contains 150 Links Per Page - [FIX]

blogger sitemaps errorsHave you observed a sudden drop in your Blogger sitemap index data inside your webmasters tools account? Do you see a major drop in your URLS Submitted data compared to Indexed data? If yes then there is nothing to worry because just this week Blogger has updated the total number of items in its Atom Feed and RSS Feed. The maximum number of blog post entries in these XML files were previously 500 Links but after this latest update, your blogspot XML feed has now been broken down into smaller groups containing a maximum of 151 Links in each page. This means that now webmasters will show a count of 151 in the Submitted data column which was previously 501 for URLS in web index. The default feed count is same i.e. 26 links in both RSS and Atom Feed.

This surely looks like a much better approach for faster indexing of your blog posts and this will also help Google webmasters tools to better organize your sitemap pages into smaller parts which are easy to index and crawl thus saving processing time. The same update is applied to Blogger Sitemap.xml file where each sub-page will now consist of only 150 links, previously 500 URLS were grouped per page.

How to fix Submitted and Indexed Data Difference?

You are seeing this error or difference of sitemap data inside your webmasters search console account because you have submitted multiple custom sitemaps to Google either using our Sitemap Generator tool or using a custom sitemap submission method using atom feeds. This sitemaps are located at atom.xml. The screenshot below shows the

custom atom feed sitemaps

In the screen shot above you can observe that the submitted urls are 151 while the indexed urls are 496. The Indexed links are greater than submitted links because webmasters tool is showing you the old cached indexed count of blogger sitemap where the sitemap contained a maximum of 500 links. The indexed data is thus an old cached count while the submitted data shows the refreshed Link count after Blogger updated sitemaps.

Blogger introduced Dynamic Sitemaps for all blogspot blogs from January 2015 onwards. Now you can excess all your sitemap data from a single sitemap.xml file as shared below:

Your sitemap.xml file is hosted at this location:

http://Your-Blog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

Our Blog Parent sitemap is hosted under this link:

http://bloggerchive.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

All you need to do is to delete the custom atom.xml sitemaps and instead submit sitemap.xml as the only sitemap inside your webmasters account. Follow these steps:

1. Go To Webmasters Tools > Crawl > Sitemaps

2. Delete all your old sitemaps which uses the atom.xml Feed structure

delete sitemaps

3. Next submit the dynamic sitemap.xml as the only sitemap

ADD/TEST Sitemap

4. That's it!

This single parent sitemap will automatically update its sub-pages and submit your new posts to Google index. If you click the sitemap link you can easily see how many sub-pages does the sitemap contain. This is a better and standard way to create sitemaps and widely followed for wordpress blogs as well.This parent sitemap is divided into sub-pages each containing a total of 150 links per page. Since we have published around 1435 posts so far therefore the total number of our sitemap pages are thus 10 where each sitemap contains 150 links. It is basic math i.e. 10 x 150 = 1500

Pages inside Sitemap.xml

It takes around 24 hours for all links to get indexed. 

Already submitted sitemap.xml?

If you have already submitted the dynamic sitemap months ago but still see a difference in your submitted/indexed data then you just need to resubmit the sitemap so that Google may fetch all newly submitted links.

resubmit sitemaps

After resubmitting our sitemap the index data got back to normal:

blogger Dynamic Sitemap

Need Help?

I hope this clarifies all your answers and help you guys troubleshoot this technical SEO problem that you were facing recently. Let me know if I could be of any further assistance. Feel free to post your questions in the comment box below. Wishing a great weekend buddies. Peace and blessings! =)


This article was requested by our reader Basit Khan. I personally thank him for bringing this problem into our notice.

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24 comments

  1. says:

    Thanks it solved my problem.

  2. says:

    Thanks for your valuable information. It will help us in getting good rank. Described very clearly. That's the reason I'm regular on your Blog.
    Regards,
    https://totalhindi.com

  3. says:

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  4. says:

    few days back same thing happened to me too, but i just re-submitted my site's sitemap to google by deleting the old one...

    i got total of 389 posts and all got indexed the next day of submission with single sitemap.xml

  5. says:

    Hi Mohammad Bhai

    Thanks for the new update. Glad that I have subscribed for MBT

    While checking the webmaster tools, same thing happened in my dashboard. Now done the steps provided here and successfully added the new site map format

    Thank you and keep updating and educating bloggers like me

  6. says:

    Thanks mohammad mustafa bhai jazak Allah. Mujhe kahin nai mil raha tha is issue pe article lekin apke blog pe mil gaya :) You are great.

  7. says:

    Does it mean they will only index upto 3,000 posts?

  8. says:

    Congratz! =)

  9. says:

    I am so glad you found it useful. Thank you prakash =)

  10. says:

    Only submit sitemap.xml. Delete all others

  11. says:

    That's indeed the best way if you have already submitted sitemap.xml. Normally when you cross over 150 posts, it is best to re-submit the sitemap so that Google search console could access the newly created subpage more quickly

  12. says:

    Thank you Jothis for remaining a loyal reader and motivator. This feedback is all that matters to us. I am really glad you were able to update your sitemap. Thank you for staying updated. =)

  13. says:

    Always welcomed buddy. Helping others is all that we mean. I am glad your problem is fixed! All praise be to God =)

  14. says:

    Hi Muhammad,

    Thanks for providing a complete guide of Blogger Sitemap.xml which make it easy for everybody to go through.

    Keep sharing :)

    Regards

    Mairaj

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  16. says:

    Where did you read that? Of course not, they have no limit on how much they can index but they limit sitemap link count to at most 500. Since the link count per sitemap is 150 now so it is even better. =)

  17. says:

    You are most welcomed mairaj. I hope it helps as many people as possible =)

  18. says:

    My question is, I have implemented the dynamic sitemap which is 150 posts grouped into 20 = 3000 total posts. I have 3,400 posts, how do I get the rest indexed

  19. says:

    Thank You Bhai ...

    In continuation with my comment, now all of my post got indexed and i can see positive change in my site's (http://www.munnartourguide.com/) traffic

    Thank you once again for the help

  20. says:

    Wish you more success! =)

  21. says:

    Oh I get your point now!

    Just click the resubmit button and resubmit the sitemap! Google will get a refreshed copy of your sitemap with all 22 Pages instead of just 20 pages. =)

  22. says:

    Hi Mohammad vai
    This is the first time I know about dynamic sitemap. I add it on GWT. Is there any changes required in Custom robots.txt because here I use the older xml file.
    # Blogger Sitemap generated on 2015.01.23
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /search
    Allow: /
    Sitemap: http://www.techshoutme.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

  23. says:

    Hello , i have another problem. I have crawl error on bing webmaster tool , search is decreased of 97% after this problem.

  24. says:

    But dynamic sitemap in blogger result 20 page but i have 30 page. what should I do ?