can any body tell me how many types of site map which have to submitted for search engine bot ? i know only sitemap.xml so can anyone have another so i can do very well so i could get better indexed of my pages.
.xml and you can also submit html and .xml.gz If you have Multiple sitemap, you have more opportunity to get indexed.
Sitemaps are an easy way to inform search engines about pages of the sites that are available for crawling.It is an XML file that lists URLs for a site so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site. There are three different types of site maps available: Outline - A list of your site pages in classic outline format. Each page is listed along with "deeper" pages that are linked with that page. Table - A series of tables of your sites primary pages and the "deeper" links with them. Each table starts with the title of the primary page, then has a bar, then has a list of pages linked with the primary page. Only pages with sublinks have tables generated for them. List - A simple list of the pages in your site, arranged in depth order. Bars visually separate pages of different depth. The outline type is usually the best and it is chosen to be the default site map shown.
In general, there are two types of sitemaps. The first type of sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site - often by section - and is meant to help users find the information they need. XML Sitemaps - usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S - are a way for you to give Google information about your site.