Which is better: an HTML site map or XML Sitemap?
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Uploaded by GoogleWebmasterHelp on Oct 7, 2009
Raj in India asks:
"HTML site map v/s XML Sitemap. Which one is yummy for Google search engine spider?"
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Guys this video made in 2009, and now the situations have changed. Don't blame Matt for this..
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I think they are of both significance. It will only have to depend on hoe it is used by the user.
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There are about 12 different types of sitemaps, Google uses the xml version, but all are important.
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blogger has a gun to my head!
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For indexability = use sitemaps.xml, .txt for yahoo, bing,google webmaster tools submitting. For usability - use sitemap.html
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The Webmaster Tools response to a submitted sitemap that reads:
Sitemap is HTML Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.
I think it's referring to the CONTENT of the file rather than file type. It means theres HTML code inside it, which isn't correct. It's not supposed to be a list of links, it's supposed to be a list of URLs. As mentioned in the video, even a simple text file list of each web page is helpful to Google - and those aren't links.
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paginate it so that you only show X urls per page. we have one that shows like 10,000 links per page.
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HTML Sitemaps are not supported by Google Webmasters Tools indeed. It will be great if Matt Cuts show us how to submit a html sitemap to Google crawler.
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People pointing guns at webmasters' heads and forcing them to pick between HTML and XML sitemaps is actually a growing problem - I'm glad Matt has the courage to address this issue.
foggiellama 2 years ago 27
Everytime I watch these videos I am impressed at how useful the info is and that a Marketing/pseudo-webmaster can understand. Keep it up!
ComputerRentals 2 years ago 7