HTML Sitemaps Is Preferred By Google
When it comes to blogging or website SEO, sitemap is one of the most important tools to let search engines knows pages listed in our site. Recently, Matt Cutts announced that Google prefers sitemaps in HTML format instead XML. I have been using Google XML Sitemap plugin on this blog and also many SEO professionals advice us to use this plugin. When it comes to SEO plugins for wordpress blog, All In One SEO pack and XML Sitemaps are two most recommended plugins. Looks like Google have different sort of preferences when it comes to XML and HTML. So, is there any html sitemap wordpress plugin?
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October 10th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I think to name your archives as Sitemap might help.
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Atniz Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 3:49 am
It’s a good idea. Plus, my archive is not used at the moment. Thanks for the tips.
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October 10th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I think XML sitemap is more good than html sitemap, because master SEO in my cauntry like to use it. my master Cosaaranda, and I have read his E-book. That E-book contain good knowledge about SEO….
So, XML is good to me…..
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Atniz Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 3:52 am
It’s good to follow someone that good in this field. But, we can’t 100% wait for them spoonfeed us on each and every aspects. Sometimes, we need to follow the most recent updates as SEO world keeps changing.
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October 10th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Wow, just know about it. I hope there is html sitemap generator plugin soon.
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Atniz Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 4:12 am
I hope for that too. I couldn’t find it on google, hope some good developer will do it for us.
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October 11th, 2009 at 1:21 am
How about SEO for blogspot then? Do you recommend anything
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Atniz Reply:
October 11th, 2009 at 4:13 am
It’s been a while I left blogspot blogs, so, I am not really good in SEO for blogspot blogs. Frankly, there will be some sort of limitation if we are bond to blogspot blogs.
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October 11th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Why would Google care about the format? That seems strange. IMO there should be no discernable difference especially if you use a style sheet with the XML sitemap.
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Atniz Reply:
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:09 am
Most probably, Google’s bot is not ready to read well XML compared to html. I’m sure there must be something before Matt Cutts recommending something.
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October 12th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Hello Web Templates,
Google always tells us to create site for human visitors and not for SE’s. html sitemaps are good and easy for humans but xml format is not. I think that may be the reason.
Anyway Google seems to be least interested with their own blogger.
Thanks
Atniz
TC
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Atniz Reply:
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:12 am
I’m not sure that is the reason why Google prefer html over xml sitemap. But, I noticed a lot of blogspot blogs tend to get at the end of results page in any keywords searched over google too.
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October 12th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Despite that the XML sitemap is not friendly for human and intended for spiders of SEs, still it can be useful to generate a HTML sitemap or just use its XML style template to generate a HTML like sitemap.
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Atniz Reply:
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:15 am
I’m still using XML sitemap and almost all my new post get indexed within few minutes. I think Google is still doing good with XML. But, if there is an option, I’m willing to try it as well.
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October 12th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
A website needs both. XML site map is required for search engines and HTML site map is for human..
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Atniz Reply:
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:22 am
I never heard any site have 2 sitemaps on. I guess one will do with good navigation.
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