Matt Cutts Prefers HTML Sitemaps over XML Sitemaps

Matt Cutts from Google Prefers HTML Sitemaps over XML Sitemaps as HTML Sitemap is useful for both users and spiders.

He furhter explains an HTML sitemap is a single page which, is used by all the users to find a particular information related to the site. It is an old school landing page for users to find all (or most) of your pages on your web site via single page and is best suited for smaller sites.

An XML sitemap are not visible to a user, but useful only for search engine spider.

once you make an HTML sitemap, making an XML version is extremely easy. So, he advices, to do both.

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