What is HTML Sitemap?
Ans. 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.
What is XML Sitemap?
Ans. 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.
XML sitemaps are built for search engine Crawlers Like Google, Yahoo, Bing. XML sitemaps make it easier for search engine Crawlers to crawl and index the pages mentioned in your sitemap.
HTML sitemaps are built for humans so that they can navigate your website better.
XML sitemaps have more impact on SEO than HTML site Maps. ( For example rich Snippets)
HTML sitemaps transfer good drank pagerank to the pages mentioned in the site map whearas XML sitemaps do not transfer pagerank to the links mentioned in the sitemap
HTML site Maps cannot be updated automatically whereas XML sitemaps can be updated automatically Easily.
Both XML and HTML sitemap can be submitted Google bing and Yahoo webmasters.
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