What is Site Map and distinguish between HTML sitemap and XML sitemap?

[michaelclarke]

What is Site Map and distinguish between HTML sitemap and XML sitemap.

[brknny]

Sitemap is a quick reference of your website,is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.Xml sitemap is for search engine purpose and html sitemap is for user purpose.

[veraajverma]

Sitemap is file having all the urls of your website so that user or google bot can easily access all your webpage. There are tow major type of sitemaps; 1. xml sitemap and 2. html sitemap

xml sitemap is designed for google bots to read all our urls. And html sitemap is designed for users to access all our webpage or to navigate in an easy way.

[ShreyaKoushik]

XML Sitemap - XML Sitemap like a blueprint for your house and each web page were a room.
XML Sitemaps are important for SEO because they make it easier for Google to find your site’s pages—this is important because Google ranks the web pages, not just websites.

HTML sitemaps - HTML sitemaps help a visitor to easily find the web pages in your website. It includes each and every page of your website. You can create it in HTML language or made it done with your developer. And remember to make sure that it contains all your main web pages/categories with about us contact us pages as well for an example.

[sadianisar]

XML Sitemaps: It is an On-Page SEO element. It is a file which contains all the urls of a webpage along with website and we submit it to search engine for indexing purpose.
HTML Sitemaps: It is used on website. When the user clicks to it, it will help user to find the desired web page on the website.

[chiragpatel108]

HTML Sitemap is user website visitors who come to your website and able to see all your website web pages.

XML Sitemap is for search engine who can easily and fast crawl each web pages of your website and show on SERP.

[daviddakarai]

Sitemap having the all the webpages information of the website and give guidelines to users and search engines for better understanding.
XML sitemap helps to search engines to crawl and index.
HTML sitemap helps to users to understand better about website.

[dombowkett]

XML sitemap is set of webpages, designed for search engine indexing while HTML sitemap for users.