Sitemap

i. An HTML sitemap is a page on your website that shows all the website’s content in a neat and organized way.
ii. It provides website users with another convenient method to browse our site from this page.
iii. In addition, an HTML sitemap is an important component of on-page SEO and will boost search engine ranking.

i. An XML sitemap is located at www.wdcnews.in/sitemap.xml—this is the URL where search engines like Google.com, Bing.com, or Yandex.com can use it. It’s made up of code in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format and is used so a search engine can quickly crawl our website to see what pages are available on it. Then it will be indexed in search engine results for users.
ii. An HTML sitemap is a page that displays the links on our website in a user-friendly way.

Yes. The HTML sitemap is a simplified version of the XML sitemap. It enables you to elegantly arrange and display all the live URLs on your website and present them on a single page. Customers may then use this page to find what they are looking for easily.
For example, a user might have seen a particular blog post or page from a long time ago, and the best way to find this will be by visiting the sitemap and searching for the page titles. Rather of browsing through all the links on the page one by one.

Webmasters frequently question whether an HTML sitemap is required for SEO of their website if an XML sitemap already exists and has been uploaded to Google Search Console.
However, each sort of sitemap serves a distinct purpose. XML sitemaps are primarily designed for Google and other search engine crawlers to aid in the discovery of all material on your website.
An HTML sitemap, on the other hand, is mostly relevant for website visitors and assists them in exploring your site. As a result, because both forms of sitemaps have complementary functions, it makes sense to employ both for usability and SEO.
In addition to an existing XML sitemap, Matt Cutts (former head of search quality at Google) advocates developing an HTML sitemap