I had a look at logs of our sites and it still looks like a lot of people come to HTML sitemaps, while the XML ones are mainly for google. I would recommend using both if you can. Just wanted to ask you if there a wordpress plugin that generates HTML sitemap? Something that you used and would recommend
This one is good Sitemap Generator Plugin for Wordpress · Dagon Design. It can create both HTML sitemap for regular visitors as well as XML sitemap for Google.
Dear, XML Sitemap You can create XML sitemap easilly. No need to change in the sitemap whenever you added new pages or updated you existing pages.Its change itself. HTML Sitemap Manually created. No need to change in the sitemap whenever you added new pages. James
If html sitemaps are just for people then why do you need one? A website should be easy enough to navigate.
bodiesbeautifuluk i disagree, i think HTML sitemaps needs to be also updated. even though the website should be easy to navigate, there are some pages that arent easy to find if the site is huge, so you need search function or sitemap
I understand what you are saying. In that case I would choose the search feature. I personally haven't used a sitemap. I have seen them on other pages and looked at them out of curiousity back before i really knew what it was. But, if i know what im looking for i just search.
yes xml map is for all search engines - it will help theme to index all pages and html map for human visitors...
I prefer XML sitemaps. Cos, you will already navigation buttons, links, etc as an alternative for HTML sitemaps.
I have a website template I'm using that has a place for a sitemap. I've tried using the WP sitemap plugin, but it doesn't really do what I want. How can I create my own sitemap using html?
I have an ecommerce site with many product pages that I was planning on creating an html site map for visitors as well as an xml sitemap for submission to Google, etc. The site also has a WP blog ecommercesite.com/blog and was wondering if I should create a separate xml sitemap for google, yahoo etc or bundle it all into one. I'd rather create 2 sitemaps since they will pull from different databases. Any thoughts? thanks.
Sitemaps are particularly useful on larger sites with complex, multi-level navigation. For smaller websites, HTML sitemap pages offer another point of entry to your site and is generally a beneficial SEO addition.
I have around 100 pages website, I checked and they are not all indexed by google, I don't use xml sitemap yet. Is it because of it? If I use xml sitemap, does it guaranty that all my pages will be crawled? Tx
There are so many differences are there some of them which i suggest such as. In XML you can create easily sitemap and in HTML it will created manually these is one of the main difference of XML and HTML.
You cannot picture it in terms of preferring one from another. Xml sitemaps and HTML are 2 very different things. The first one is only used by search engines and will help them to retrieve in a more easy way the URL within your site so that they can be indexed properly by the SE, and the other one is meant for your "human" visitors to understand the organization of your site.
To Baliseo: Did you register your site to google? Do you have a Google id key in the root of your site? (most SE engine use id keys) If you have those, then eventually your site will end to be indexed by Google, it it will help to register to Webmasters tools and send them your sitemap. It will at least gain some time.
I am not sure that it will guaranty that all of your pages are index but for the time it takes it is definitely worth having both HTML and XML sitemaps for sites and also adding them to webmaster tools. Sites that I have done this with while not all urls have been index the number has definitely increased.