Which site map is better html site map or xml site map?

14 years ago

Originally Posted by stevetickolo

Hi everyone
Can somebody explain which site map is better for search engine point of view and users point of view html or xml.

As far as user is concerned use html sitemap and for search engine use XML sitemap.

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jamaks

14 years ago

Hi stevetickolo, I do not think it matters much to the search engine although they appear to ask for xml they are quite happy with html.
For the human visitor it should definately be html since it should contain direct linking to the pages involved and is much more readable if styled nicely.
I would suggest adding a link to your site map from inside your robots.txt file to ensure that the robot does indeed autodiscover your site map.

Sitemap: full url/sitemap.html

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Note the line between site map url and User-agent is required in order to be read correctly. Trust this helps.

Jim

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Microsys

14 years ago

Originally Posted by jamaks

Hi stevetickolo, I do not think it matters much to the search engine although they appear to ask for xml they are quite happy with html.
For the human visitor it should definately be html since it should contain direct linking to the pages involved and is much more readable if styled nicely.
I would suggest adding a link to your site map from inside your robots.txt file to ensure that the robot does indeed autodiscover your site map.

Sitemap: full url/sitemap.html

User-agent: *
Disallow:

Note the line between site map url and User-agent is required in order to be read correctly. Trust this helps.

Jim

Quick note, you probably meant sitemap.xml, not sitemap.html

(sitemaps auto discovery is for XML sitemaps protocol only)

Sitemap: http://example.com/sitemap.xml

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AbhinayaSree

14 years ago

xml is better for site map.

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Microsys

14 years ago

Originally Posted by stevetickolo

Hi everyone
Can somebody explain which site map is better for search engine point of view and users point of view html or xml.

XML sitemaps can help you get more pages indexed faster. (For search engines only.)

HTML sitemaps can help users navigate your website + push link juice around your site.

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Crystal84

14 years ago

Why not generate different kinds of sitemaps which can meet with both users' needs and search engines' needs?

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Varun Aryan

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ajajahmedshaikh 14 years ago

We Should Use both the Sitemap .xml & .html

.xml is for search engines
.html is for users visiting your website
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