What is the difference between HTML sitemaps and XML sitemaps?

[sunkye]

What is the difference between HTML sitemaps and XML sitemaps?

[Nas]

HTML Sitemaps are for easy navigation of users on your website while XML sitemaps are for smooth access of URLs of your site by Crawlers.

[andreausa]

· HTML sitemaps are displayed with the user in mind and with the same structure: they are usually linear, or top-down showing the content hierarchy of the site, they provide the user with an easily readable table of contents, thus showing them how to get to their page destination.

· XML sitemaps do pretty much the same thing as a HTML but they are in a different type of web code and document. They are also a visible list but provide URLs to the web crawlers that give additional data about the pages meta tags. They show data on whether there have been changes to the page and how often it changes compared to other URLs on that site.

[MattHogan]

HTML is a markup language for describing hypertext ("with links") documents.
XML is a generic markup language designed for using as a base for building custom markup languages.

[RH-Calvin]

HTML sitemap is a plain text sitemap used by browsers to know and surf through your website pages. XML sitemap is a coded sitemap used to submit in webmaster tool to help spiders crawl them and index the webpages in search engines.

[nancy07]

A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for a Web page that lists the pages on a Web site, typically organised in a hierarchical fashion.

HTML sitemap is basically used for visitors to easy to view site all pages in one place and go through hyperlink selected page.


The XML sitemap is used for search engines for easy to crawl your website all pages.

[parkbogumm830]

HTML Sitemaps are for easy navigation of users on your website.
XML sitemaps are for smooth access of URLs of your site by Crawlers.

[Indrajit890]

HTML was designed to display data with a focus on how data looks. XML was designed to be a software and hardware.independent tool used to transport and store data

[Sreesri]

XML sitemap is specially designed for the search engines as it is submitted to the webmaster tools for crawling the website. Whereas, HTML sitemap is designed for humans as they can clearly see it on the website as an extra web page and all the visitors of the website can make use of it for understanding the website.

[elizabethpowell]

Site maps are essential for your homepage SEO. You are done creating your site map; it is recommended that you submit it to Google webmasters tool, so google crawl sitemaps. html is a markup language for describing documents. and create the hyperlinks.

[salenaadam]

What is the difference between HTML sitemaps and XML sitemaps?

HTML sitemap is created for the user which is present on site homepage and XML sitemap is specially created for the search engine for crawling purpose.

[salenaadam]

What is the difference between HTML sitemaps and XML sitemaps?

HTML sitemap is created for the user which is present on site homepage and XML sitemap is specially created for the search engine for crawling purpose.

[elizabethpowell]

SEO Tips?

[OPH]

It is simple to understand the difference between both terms, the HTML sitemap is for users to better navigation and XML sitemap is for SE Spiders.

[Prateektechnosoft]

HTML and xml sitemaps are used to understand for users and search engine.

User can easy to navigate the Pages in the website through HTML sitemap. S
Search engine can easy to understand the URL's through xml sitemaps.

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