: .XML Sitemaps and HTML Sitemaps Clarification I've got a website with about 170 pages and I want to create an effective Sitemap for it as it is long due. The website is internally linked very

I've got a website with about 170 pages and I want to create an effective Sitemap for it as it is long due. The website is internally linked very well but I still want to take advantage of creating a sitemap to allow SE's to crawl my site easier and to hopefully increase my websites PR. Though I am slightly confused to what I must do: Is it necessary to create a .xml sitemap AND a HTML Sitemap (both)? ... Because I've never worked with .xml ... where do I put this file once it's created? In the Root folder? So I assume that this sitemap.xml is ONLY to be read by spiders and NOT by website visitors. IE: No visitor on my website is going to visit the page sitemap.xml, am I correct? ... Hence why I should also create an HTML sitemap (sitemap.htm)?

10.01% popularity Vote Up Vote Down

: Htaccess 301 redirect help needed(removing GET parameters) Due to some issues in my site many pages are visible as duplicate using : www.example.com/page.html?task=view but it's content is exactly

@Steve110

Posted in: #Htaccess #Seo #UrlRewriting

4 Comments

: Urlrewrite and search engines I have a urlrewrite that rewrites my urls like mypage.aspx?id=123&title=mytitle into ...page/mytitle/123/ I'm trying to understand what are the pros / cons

@Steve110

Posted in: #SearchEngines #UrlRewriting

1 Comments

: Point sub directory to another IP? We have a website that we want to keep on it's hosting - www.domain.com. We then want to point a sub directory to hosting that is somewhere else www.domain.com/new-website.

@Steve110

Posted in: #Directory #WebHosting

1 Comments

: How To Hide From BuiltWith? Out of curiosity, does anyone know how builtwith.com works? How does it identify the platform or app a website is using? And most importantly does anyone know how

@Steve110

Posted in: #Detection #Security

4 Comments

Login to post a comment!

1 Comments

Sorted by latest first Latest Oldest Best

@Mendez628

Normally no user will see your sitemap.xml, it's there for the robots and spiders, you're right. You put it on the root directory of the site.

In theory, a sitemap.xml should be enough, no need of a sitemap.html... but sitemap.html are useful for SEO, and some users like to use them to navigate the site. If you do a sitemap.xml, the .html can be automatically generated from the xml, you don't need to pass a lot of time to generate it, so IMHO you should still do both of them.

10% popularity Vote Up Vote Down

Feed

: .XML Sitemaps and HTML Sitemaps Clarification I've got a website with about 170 pages and I want to create an effective Sitemap for it as it is long due. The website is internally linked very

More posts by @Steve110

: Htaccess 301 redirect help needed(removing GET parameters) Due to some issues in my site many pages are visible as duplicate using : www.example.com/page.html?task=view but it's content is exactly

: Urlrewrite and search engines I have a urlrewrite that rewrites my urls like mypage.aspx?id=123&title=mytitle into ...page/mytitle/123/ I'm trying to understand what are the pros / cons

: Point sub directory to another IP? We have a website that we want to keep on it's hosting - www.domain.com. We then want to point a sub directory to hosting that is somewhere else www.domain.com/new-website.

: How To Hide From BuiltWith? Out of curiosity, does anyone know how builtwith.com works? How does it identify the platform or app a website is using? And most importantly does anyone know how

Login to post a comment!

1 Comments

Back to top | Use Dark Theme