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I want to know about the exact difference between the XM Sitemap & HTML Sitemap. I already take the help of Google but not satisfied.
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TANYA TYAGI commented: XML SiteMap is specifically for Search Engine Spiders whereas HTML SiteMap allows site visitors to easily navigate a website. +0

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An HTML sitemap is just a regular webpage on your site that links to all of your pages for the benefit of your users. Googlebot will crawl this page and, essentially, also find all the other pages you link to.

A plain text sitemap file is a plain text list of all of the URLs on your site, one per line. They can be submitted to Google Search Console so that Googlebot wil get a list of all of the pages of your site you think are important to crawl.

An XML sitemap is an XML file of all of the URLs on your site you think are important to crawl. The added benefit of using an XML sitemap (which is Google's recommended format) is that you can additionally specify the priority of the page (compared to the other pages on your site) and the last time the page was modified, to give Googlebot some additional information to help with their crawl efforts.

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An XML sitemap is specifically written for search engine spiders. A search engine spider can quickly and easily extract all the important pieces of information about your site by looking at the XML file. An HTML sitemap enables lost human users to find a page on your site that they are looking for. Remember that search engines reward sites that are easy to use and that, in many cases, you can improve your site’s ranking by improving your user experience. It may be the case that you provide a better user experience by providing an HTML sitemap.

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XML is abbreviation for eXtensible Markup Language whereas HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. XML mainly focuses on transfer of data while HTML is focused on presentation of the data.

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XML and HTML both are sitemaps that help search engines crawl your site.
XML sitemap describes what pages you have on your websites. It includes all the internal pages and webpages more efficiently. If your website has a lot of webpages and posts and they are not necessarily all linked to from the homepage.
HTML sitemap is just a page with links on it. It describes the user, what your page is about and what you have on it. The HTML sitemap helps visitors gain a comprehensive understanding of your website..

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The difference is that XML sitemaps are written for search engines and HTML sitemaps are written for humans. An XML sitemap is specifically written for search engine spiders. ... An HTML sitemap enables lost human users to find a page on your site that they are looking for.

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HTML Sitemap:

An HTML sitemap comprises of one single HTML page that bears the links of all the web pages of any specific website. This sitemap holds the foundation of all web pages of any website.
HTML sitemap contains all formatted text files and linking tags of any website. It is particularly useful when you have a large website with multiple web pages, because it helps you to improve the navigation of your website by listing all the web pages in one place in a user-friendly manner.

XML Sitemap:

XML or Extensible Markup Language is primarily created to facilitate the functionality of the search engines.
A good XML sitemap informs the search engines about the number of pages present on a specific website, the frequency of their updates and the time of the last modifications performed on them, which helps in proper indexing of the website by the search engines.

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The difference between XML Sitemap and HTML Sitemap.

XML Sitemap

  • It is specially designed for the search engines to crawl a website.
  • The XML is difficult to understand for humans and specially designed for crawlers.
  • The XML sitemap can be updated automatically.

HTML Sitemap

  • It is mainly designed for humans.
  • It is easy to understand for humans and allows navigate the website.
  • HTML sitemap can not be updated automatically.
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A XML sitemap used for search engine bots. Not just the site’s main URL, but all the URLs within the site along with the associated metadata.

HTML is just a general overview of the site, just the pages and info a user needs to navigate your site more easily.

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Differences between XML sitemap and HTML Sitemap

XML Sitemap:-
An XML sitemap is specifically written for search engine spiders. A search engine spider will quickly and simply extract all the vital items of data concerning your web site the XML file.

HTML SitemAP:-
A hypertext mark-up language HTML sitemap enables lost human users to find a page on your site that they're trying to find. keep in mind that search engines reward sites that area unit straightforward to use which, in several cases, you'll be able to improve your site’s ranking by up your user expertise. it's going to be the case that you simply give a more robust user expertise by providing an associate degree hypertext mark-up language sitemap.

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XML sitemap is not specifically written for search engine spiders

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The difference between Sitemap XML & HTML is that HTML sitemaps are
used to navigate your website visitor to your internal pages. However, XML
sitemap assist your website index instantly.

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A HTML sitemap is like a plan to all pages in a website that visitors can use to find information on a site, some that may appear concealed. In as much as this type primarily targets the user, it also helps improve your search engine rankings since the site will be deemed to be user-friendly and serves the users’ interests. XML sitemap protocol is purposely aimed at the search engine spiders. It contains all the URLs in a site as well as associated metadata like the last time URL was modified, its importance to the site, frequency of changes and how it relates to the rest of the website among others. You can create XML and HTML sitemaps with the help of a sitemap generator.

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HTML Sitemap:
It is available for the user and crawler. Any user can see an HTML site map of the website. Normally e-commerce site like Amazon, or Flipkart has HTML sitemap. it does not tells last modification of webpages and frequency of modification and timing.

XML Sitemap:
It is an XML file which is available to web crawler only not for user. This is XML file has to be uploaded in the root directory of the website. It tells the crawler how many pages presented on your website. it also tells the last modification of webpages and frequency of modification and timing.

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Main difference is XML sitemaps are written for search engines and HTML sitemaps are written for humans. In simple words, XML sitemap is specifically written for search engine spiders. An HTML sitemap enables lost human users to find a page on your site that they are looking for.

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The difference is that XML sitemaps are written for search engines and HTML sitemaps are written for humans. An XML sitemap is specifically written for search engine spiders. A search engine spider can quickly and easily extract all the important pieces of information about your site by looking at the XML file.

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XML mainly focuses on transfer of data while HTML is focused on presentation of the data

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