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If you own a website or have been around with websites, you must have heard about Sitemaps. Chances are high that you are aware about term SEO too. SEO is a huge list of factors responsible for your website’s search engine ranking. Most of the known SEO techniques revolve around Keywords but that’s not it. There are several other factors that play vital role in the search results of your website. One of those important aspects is creating Sitemaps of your website. For your Website to attain higher ranking it’s important that google can index the pages of your website easily. But sometimes it becomes hard to point pages with internal links making it hard to find. A site helps to list all the pages of your website making it easy for google to crawl and search.
Difference Between XML and HTML Sitemaps
Most of the people remain confused about which sitemap should be used or is better. Sitemap should be selected according to the purpose/ business of website. Let’s have a look at some differences between XML and HTML sitemaps.
What is XML and HTML Sitemap?
Sitemap is a way of informing Google and other search engines about web pages of a website. Search engines via Sitemap can discover the web pages of a website and index them.
A sitemap should contain all major webpages and sub- pages in a given website, this helps search engines to navigate the website easily and index its pages. There are two types of Sitemaps i.e. XML and HTML Sitemaps.
Purpose
XML and HTML Sitemaps are designed for different purposes. XML sitemap is specially designed for the search engines as it is submitted via webmaster tool for effective crawling of website pages.
Whereas, HTML sitemap is designed for humans as they can clearly see it on the website as a web page and website visitors can follow the links to easily navigate and understand the website.
Automatic Updates
Since, HTML sitemap is designed for humans for navigation purpose only, it cannot update automatically.
On the other hand an XML sitemap is designed for search engines and can be updated automatically by setting up an update frequency. This is helpful in synchronizing new posts or pages with search engine automatically.
User Friendly
Having an HTML sitemap makes the website user friendly. User can easily navigate across all webpages of a given website. For example, if the user is not able to find a specific page on the website then he can search HTML site map and easily access that page. This helps in improving SEO rankings.
In contrast, an XML sitemap is not user friendly or easy to read by users. It has typical xml tags which makes it tough to read for a layman without some HTML knowledge.
How to Create the sitemap of your website
Most of the websites don’t usually come with a prepared sitemap, you have to do it by yourself. There are number of ways to create a site map:
Manual sitemap building
This process allows you to customize your sitemap. Though it requires deep knowledge of programming and recommended only for experienced web developers.
Use the tool provided by your website’s platform
Most of the website builders and content management systems provide you with the tool to create your sitemap. Using those free tools can help you build sitemap with ease.
Use an online sitemap generator
There are a number of free online tools that can help you build sitemap of your website within minutes. Moreover, you don’t have to install any extra software , it can be done just by filling the name of your website.
We at Prologic Technologies recommend to use both XML and HTML Sitemaps for better SEO ranking of your website. It also makes your website more accessible to both visitors and search engines.
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