If you want to see explanations and examples of all sitemap file kinds, check this sitemaps article. Not sure why you are asking regarding US/India since that is unrelated to the number of different sitemap file kinds that exist
Two types of Sitemaps are there - 1. HTML Sitemap - For human 2. XML sitemap- For Search Engine's Robot.
There can be many types depending on the protocol. If you follow http://www.sitemaps.org/ protocol, most of the standard search engines will be able to find you. But you can create unlimited number of bespoken sitemaps as you wish, i have 2 versions of sitemaps. All 2 of them are XMl sitemaps, one is for Google and other one is for some other site specific search engine. For 2nd one i follow my own dtd...
I used main sitemap, mobile sitemap and video sitemap. Image sitemap is a good idea too. More sitemaps - Google will crawl your web-site better.
Basically sitemap create for visitor and search engine know easy way about our page..every where site map use same of type. if you use for USA and india then you would like for search engine then xml sitemap. you have to use HTML sitemap in case of visitor for usa and india.
How HTML sitemaps are beneficial for us? what is the purpose of this? if google like xml sitemap and yahoo like txt sitemap then what is need of HTML sitemap?
Specialized Sitemap formats have been launched freshly to better promote video, images, mobile, code as well as geographic content.
True, but there is also different types of XML sitemaps, i.e. Video sitemap, as well as a regular sitemap.
In XML Sitempa you can have different type of Sitemap. 1. XML Sitemap for Page / Post 2. XML Sitemap for Image(s) 3. XML Sitemap for Video(s) 4. XML Sitemap for Newsites One more sitemap type is HTML Sitemap
sitemap.html is used to inform the users about the website and sitemap.xml is used to inform the google about website update
hi sitemap type HTML Sitemap is users XML Sitemap is search engine Dyanamic Sitemap GEO Sitemap in My Knowledge
There are a lot of types of sitemaps like xml, html, ror, text, news sitemap, video sitemap, mobile sitemap, images sitemaps and much more.........