Is HTML Sitemap necessary for a Website?

[webdesignseoglo]

XML Sitemap of a website will be created and submitted to webmaster's console in order to ping the search engines crawler to index the inner-pages of the website.

But, apart from XML Sitemap; HTML Sitemap will be integrated into a website by default.

So, what is the benefit of a HTML Sitemap? Is it necessary to integrate a HTML Sitemap into the website? If yes, what are its uses?

[JPnyc]

Well for one thing, human visitors could make use of it to more quickly find a page

[Charles]

Myself, I like to provide the XML sitemap with an XSLT stylesheet killing both birds with the same stone.

[elum.chaitu]

Site maps are very useful for a website. there are 2 types of websites search engine site map and User site map.An HTML site map is a page within your site that links to all the other important pages on your site.
HTML site map is important, two main reasons i am telling you why?
it helps search engines crawl and understand your site, and it helps human visitors browse your site more efficiently

[garethjones]

Not necessary, but as fellow member said, It helps human users to find pages.. and if we have sitemap.. there is no harm in that..

[andrewdavid]

HTML site map is used to guide the visitor about whole structure of the website navigation.

[php developer]

Sitemap html helps to users find out the pages of your site. It's good for the site.

[Sabrina Gage]

It's not necessary. But it is good for bots visit your website . If possible,make one. And it's very easy to make a sitemap.

[Charles]

If possible,make one.Then you have to maintain two of them. If you already have an XML sitemap then you pretty much already have an HTML one. Just write a simple XSLT stylesheet for the thing.

[diyakapoor]

HTML sitemap is not necessary to create for a website. This is mainly done for the visitors. When you have a large website with number of pages, then you need a sitemap to let your users know about the new pages of website.

[woocom.com.au]

yes, html sitemap is for website navigation info

sitemap.xml plays a vital role for search engines though

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[JohnDryer]

Sitemap is all necessary i think.

For user convenience and SEO

[guuse]

It is not really needed, but might be useful for users as well as search engines. In our experience Google will find many also more or less hidden pages and recently seems to deal with parameters very well. We also use the canonical and that also seems to work very well. Sitemaps may help Google index your site faster though.

[myseopandit]

By submitting sitemaps, you inform or request search engines to crawl your website for the changes you made.HTML site map is used for clear visibility of website and XML site map is used for better indexing within the search engine results.

[thenerd]

how can we create a sitemap for a blogspot blog?

[joe12joe]

XML Sitemap of a website will be created and submitted to webmaster's console in order to ping the search engines crawler to index the inner-pages of the website.

But, apart from XML Sitemap; HTML Sitemap will be integrated into a website by default.

So, what is the benefit of a HTML Sitemap? Is it necessary to integrate a HTML Sitemap into the website? If yes, what are its uses?

Once you have configured a XML site map, HTML site map is not needed. XML sitemap serves the purpose of HTML one.

[BluegillMedia]

In my opinion, if you site is built correctly, you don't need a site map for search engines. If your links are correctly done (and not in javascript or flash or something like that), there should be no problems. Sure it may have google index your site faster, but I don't believe that is worth my time unless I am building a news website or something that needs to get into google asap.

[joelgarner]

XML Sitemap of a website will be created and submitted to webmaster's console in order to ping the search engines crawler to index the inner-pages of the website.

But, apart from XML Sitemap; HTML Sitemap will be integrated into a website by default.

So, what is the benefit of a HTML Sitemap? Is it necessary to integrate a HTML Sitemap into the website? If yes, what are its uses?

Having a Google Sitemap for a site is a must if Search Engine Optimization is your priorities. Sitemap account tells us is when did the Google bots visited our sites.The latest addition to Google Sitemap account is the Links Statistics. This set of data will show us how many incoming links do we have from both external and internal pages.

[andrewjohn1]

Great question...

HTML site map can provide value for many things and help you in many different ways. Html sitemap will help a lot of SEO, google bots come to know about your deep link topic .

[andrewjohn1]

You can use your atom.xml feed and submit it to Google's sitemap

[searchoptimal]

Yes HTML site map is necessary for a website.It helps the visitor to find your webpages easily. :)

[john methew]

Html sitemap will helpful to users to find all pages from one page.This site map will give you the full preview of your website.

[eliza189]

Sitemaps are often a great way to improve search engine visibility because it enables all pages to be found. With many websites, for example, the navigation is in flash or some other technology, such as AJAX, which makes it difficult or impossible to be crawled via search engines. Sitemaps correct this problem. Additionally, sitemaps are particularly useful for large websites, frequently updated websites, and websites full of archival content, whose pages are hard to reach via links.

[jimmybrion]

Yes this may help users really want to know something about your website

[Jarrod1937]

A few comments:

1.) Even if you're using AJAX, if you're doing it right, your site should still be crawlable by bots.
2.) If you're doing your main navigation correctly, there is no need for a user html sitemap... if a user needs to reference an html sitemap to navigate your site, your navigation is broken (that includes indirect methods like site searches).
3.) You definitely should do an xml sitemap. When bots crawl your site they crawl at the hierarchy given, if certain pages are too deep in that hierarchy they may be missed due to bots limiting both the crawl time and depth. Providing a sitemap essentially gives the bot a flat view of every page of your site all in a single location, which means it can crawl those often missed but possibly useful pages.

[BillyC]

Using sitemaps has many benefits, not only easier navigation and better visibility by search engines. Sitemaps offer the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site. Of course, you cannot expect that search engines will rush right away to index your changed pages but certainly the changes will be indexed faster, compared to when you don't have a sitemap.

[turkeyproperty]

It is the xml sitemap that search engines use. Unless you have an exceptionally large site I don't think an HTML sitemap is necessary if you have clear navigation on your pages already.