Types of sitemap

[Ravish_Shah]

Types of Sitemap and Which sitemap is more useful in SEO? Please Explain.

[dennis123]

Hi Friends,
There are principally two types of sitemaps:

• HTML sitemap (written in Hypertext Markup Language)
• XML sitemap (written in Extensible Markup Language)

XML Sitemaps can have two types.

• Index Sitemap (how many URL sitemaps a website have)
• URL Sitemap (contain final information of URLs on webpage)

XML sitemaps are further divided into 3 different categories.

• Sitemaps for webpages (commonly known as xml sitemap in community)
• Image sitemaps (details of images and their URLs on website)
• Video sitemaps (what webpages have videos embedded in them and their details)

So, final tree of sitemaps categorization we have is;
XML Sitemap Index Sitemap URL Sitemap Sitemaps for Webpages Sitemaps for Images Sitemaps for videos
HTML Sitemaps

[kumatour]

Image Sitemap, Html and XML sitemaps used in SEO.

[tradingstacks]

site map xml
site map htmp

[amarnathsmm]

An XML sitemap is a type of list marked up with XML so that search engines can easily consume information about the URLs that make up a site. For SEO, an XML sitemap is an invitation to crawl the URLs listed. It's a way of asking the search engines to crawl and index the pages listed.

[Saravanan28]

1) Visual Sitemap
2) HTML Sitemap
3) XML Sitemap
4) Search Engine Sitemap
5) News Sitemap

[gautamsharma]

Guys thanks for sharing such impressive information.

[nikki shah]

Both - XML and HTML sitemaps are recommended

[YASH]

Site map includes the HTML site map and XML site map.

[davidweb09]

Normally we use HTML & XML both types sitemap for on-page SEO optimization. http://purestrengthla.com/

[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.

[salman gee]

As the web evolves, so too does Google and SEO.

This means what is considered best practice is often in flux. What may have been good counsel yesterday, is not so today.

This is especially true for sitemaps, which are almost as old as SEO itself.

The problem is, when every man and their dog has posted answers in forums, published recommendations on blogs and amplified opinions with social media, it takes time to sort valuable advice from misinformation.

So while most of us share a general understanding that submitting a sitemap to Google Search Console is important, you may not know the intricacies of how to implement them in a way that drives SEO key performance indicators (KPIs).

Let’s clear up the confusion around best practices for sitemaps today.

In this article we cover:

What is an XML sitemap
XML sitemap format
Types of sitemaps
XML sitemap indexation optimization
XML sitemap best practice checklist
What Is an XML Sitemap
In simple terms, an XML sitemap is a list of your website’s URLs.

It acts as a roadmap to tell search engines what content is available and how to reach it.

[jay_11]

HTML Sitemap
XML Sitemap
Image Sitemap
Video Sitemap

[rahul_11]

Image Sitemap
Video Sitemap
HTML Sitemap
XML Sitemap

[NoahKlindon]

XML Sitemap
HTML Sitemap
Image and Video Sitemap