What is the best type of Sitemap?
submitted by markodonoghue on 24 November 2009
Many consider HTML sitemaps are something of a a dinosaur, a throw back to when search engines didn't exist and the directory style layout was the norm. Is it really great for a user when a search box would be a quicker way to your website's content? A YouTube video from Google employee Matt Cutts throws this negative theory into doubt.
What is an HTML Sitemap?
A sitemap is a categorised list of links to all pages on a website. Before the advent of search, it was a way users could find pages not easily accessible on large websites. It can be time consuming, but everything is there, somewhere!
An HTML sitemap then is simply a webpage like any other. It can be slightly fancier, with code in to automatically generate the sitemap when new pages are added, but essentially it is just a page of links...
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Mark O'Donoghue
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