I'm trying to create an HTML Sitemap for my website and I saw here a couple of discussions about XML Sitemaps.
What is the difference between the HTML Sitemap and XML Sitemap? Which is better?
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HTML sitemap is used to list all hyperlinks of different sections and pages of your blog/website. These hyperlinks are normally listed hierarchically and they may provide description for each link. It is no doubt that adding a HTML sitemap to your blog/website will help your visitors navigate and find information easily. So HTML sitemap is primarily created for humans. Although a HTML sitemap is created for your visitors, indexing bot such as Googlebot might have a better chance to crawl your first-time-missed links again since all the files are well put together in your sitemap page. ML sitemap lists URLs (world wide web addresses) for your blog/website in a special format. See the table below for a XML Sitemap with one single URL: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9″> It allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs in your blog/website for easy indexing. XML sitemap is created for search engines but not for humans. Submitting a XML sitemap to search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN will not only help your blog/website being indexing quickly and efficiently but also increase your blog/website’s visibilities in search engines as well. |
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XML Sitemaps are a standard, a technical agreement between the most important search engines including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. The full documentation is available at Sitemaps.org. HTML sitemaps are actually an HTML page with some links to internal pages. There's no real standard. These pages only act as proxy for internal pages and their primary scope is to reduce the number of steps the crawler should follow to reach the final target (the url). |
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Google clearly state that there are almost the same : see this video : HTML vs XML sitemap It essentially says that they are the same. The only difference is that the HTML version is usefull for both spiders and users . So if you have to choose between them, start with the HTML version. |
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Google prefers that prefer humans. Then Google prefers HTML. If you have enough time to do it, create both sitemaps. About the HTML sitemaps for generic website you can create the first sitemap that redirects to the different sections and then one for each section. |
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