What is the difference sitemap.xml and sitemap.html ?

[now_i_m_here]

Hello Guys.

I want to know what is the difference sitemap.xml and sitemap.html ?

Thanx in advance.

[bryansmith]

Hello Guys.

I want to know what is the difference sitemap.xml and sitemap.html ?

Thanx in advance.

Hi,
XML sitemap that allows the webmaster to inform the search engine about URL on a website that are available for crawling.it's a xml that list the url's for a site.

There is no doubt that adding a HTML sitemap to your blog/website will help your visitors navigate and find information easily.

[BeePk]

thanks bryansmith for giving this useful information, i dont know about this before

[WeDost.Com]

xml version is for search engines n html version is for users.

[SitemapGenerator]

Although search engines can sometimes also benefit from HTML sitemaps since these pass actual link juice.

[gmiller]

sitemap.xml is a XML sitemap and sitemap.html is a HTML sitemap. XML sitemap is used only for search engine to crawl the pages of website. HTMl sitemap is developed for the user to see the main pages of the website.

[bishop_ian]

Hello,

HTML sitemap is exploit to register all hyperlinks of diverse sections and pages of your website. XML sitemap file URLs (world wide web addresses) for your website in a particular format

[seoexpert22]

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″>

XML sitemap is created for see engines but not for humans. Submitting a XML sitemap to see engines much as Google, Yahoo, and MSN be going to not exclusive support your blog/website existence indexing apace and expeditiously but also process your blog/website’s visibilities in see engines as well.

[baccifinejewelry]

xml sitemap = for search engine
html sitemap = for human visitor and can pass pr link juice to every page of your site.

[reaper]

The HTML sitemap is just another HTML file and it gets spidered exactly the same way. If you've only got a few links, say less than 100, the bulk of you site is bound to get indexed naturally. Eventually, all of your pages should end up in the search engine index. Unlike the HTML file, a properly formatted .xml sitemap file lists every page you want listed and, depending on your preferences, the date the file was created, updated and even the importance you place on each file as it pertains to your site theme or content.

Once you've created and uploaded the xml file, you can alert search engine spiders as to its' existence in a few different ways. Point to it in your robots.txt file, link to it from your pages and wait for the spiders to visit your site (which is what you're currently doing with your HTML sitemap file), or submit it to the top three search engines manually through their respective interfaces or simply by pinging them if required. Updating a xml sitemap with each site update or modification, allows you to alert the search engines that you've got new content that you'd like them to spider. Doing this helps ensure that pages that have not been indexed, pages that may not be linked to within your base site navigation, or pages that were previously overlooked, receive a visit.

In the eyes of a spider, new content means more relevant content, resulting in better placement in the SERPs. It's like hanging out a banner saying "hey, check this out! My site is new and improved!". Another benefit is that telling the spiders that you're updating your site is more likely to generate more frequent visits from the spiders. It's the same reason blog sites send pings to RSS feeds and why blogs are a great way to get your site to rank well.

There's no guarantee that the pages will be indexed immediately but you'll have done what you can to tell the spiders that the pages and new content exist and you'll have provided a clear and concise path to them. Finally, if you're able to do some scripting, you can use a script to parse the xml file and dynamically build a hierarchical HTML sitemap page that users can actually follow and you'd no longer have to worry about using or updating a hard-coded HTML file.

Which is more important? without question, it's the XML sitemap.