Comments on: The Importance of HTML Sitemaps

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 08 May 2010 13:22:23 +0000

It is funny how something so basic… seems missing from even SEO firms … many SEO firms sites don't have a proper HTML sitemap… we have to go back to the basics ;)

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:22:23 +0000

It is funny how something so basic… seems missing from even SEO firms … many SEO firms sites don't have a proper HTML sitemap… we have to go back to the basics ;)

By: fyness

fyness — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:32:50 +0000

Could someone please answer Shekhar Sahu's question. I too have a blog on blogger.com. I bought a domain name for it and I was wondering how I can go about generating a Sitemap for this blog.

Is this possible?

Regards,
Stephen

By: SearchReadySeo

SearchReadySeo — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:10:22 +0000

Daniel,
Very interesting article. There have also been instances where sites without sitemaps have also made it to the search engines without much difficulty. That’s fine, but if you have a website that is not well reputed yet on the search engines, and have fewer backlinks, then submitting a sitemap will help. And if you have a website with large amount of content, sitemaps gives you an opportunity to organize the content and get the best ones out there on the search engines.

By creating and submitting XML sitemaps you are more likely to get better freshness and coverage in search engines.

I still am not sure if I agree with you completely that HTML sitemaps are better than HTML in terms of Search Engine Coverage though.

By: iKnowBase

iKnowBase — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:07:35 +0000

Hi Daniel. Interesting article with many good points.

By: Blue Cherry

Blue Cherry — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:51:46 +0000

Completely agree, simple yet effective. Html sitemaps have been around for years but I am surprised how many websites still fail to take advantage of them.

By: CAP Digisoft

CAP Digisoft — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:38:27 +0000

Hi,

While i dig into some website i could see that the sitemap of the particular website being linked to the top banner. This link is not visible to the visitors until or otherwise they move the mouse over the image and click it.

Can we implement this technique to our website? or will it affect my website rankings?

By: Almer Viloria

Almer Viloria — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:01:27 +0000

Thanks for the tip on how to pass the link juice to all of my important pages of my site. I do prefer to do both on all the sites that I handle, even if the site does not need any .xml sitemaps, I bought the sitemap generation tool of xml-sitemaps which helps me a lot (I’m not promoting the site).

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:51:29 +0000

@Damian, maybe that question was talking about XML sitemaps instead of HTML ones? Becuase if that is the case I would side with the folks who said XML sitemaps are not that important, unless you are having specific crawling or indexation problems on your site.

But if the discussion was about HTML sitemaps than yeah, I believe they are still pretty useful.

By: Brandon Sheley

Brandon Sheley — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:36:07 +0000

I don’t think sitemaps are as important as you say. If you have a solid internal linking structure, there is no need for a sitemap.
I have several sites with sitemaps and have thought all along that they were needed. I’m starting a new site with no sitemap, just a strong linking structure, and so far all the pages I want indexed, are getting indexed.
It’s just a test really, but I don’t think they are as “needed” as I use to think.