Added: Oct 7, 2009
From: GoogleWebmasterHelp
Duration: 1:15
Raj in India asks: "HTML site map v/s XML Sitemap. Which one is yummy for Google search engine spider?"
Channel: Tech
Views: 24976 Comments: 19
foggiellama Says:
Oct 7, 2009 - People pointing guns at webmasters' heads and forcing them to pick between HTML and XML sitemaps is actually a growing problem - I'm glad Matt has the courage to address this issue.
awhodatt Says:
Oct 7, 2009 - Agreed. Matt would be a great guy to have a beer with. I think he gets pretty crazy when drunk tho...looks like the type :o)
nrajasekharan Says:
Oct 8, 2009 - Thanks Matt for picking up that question and answering it.
djkyle Says:
Oct 9, 2009 - Follow up question: I have over 100,000 pages on one of my sites. How many internal links should be on a single page? Does formatting mater for html? Thank you Kyle Brown Good Time Entertainment Bakersfield, Ca
wredlich Says:
Oct 9, 2009 - Surprised you didn't mention Google Webmaster Tools, which seems to favor xml sitemaps.
mortormow Says:
Oct 11, 2009 - Pity the HTML sitemaps are not accepted anymore in Googles Webmasters Tools, But still good for your visitors to your website. No Matt both are not good in the Webmasters Tools.
hkdobrev Says:
Oct 18, 2009 - HTML Sitemaps are not supported by Google Webmasters Tools indeed. It will be great if Matt Cuts show us how to submit a html sitemap to Google crawler.
articlesnatch Says:
Oct 24, 2009 - paginate it so that you only show X urls per page. we have one that shows like 10,000 links per page.
adrianaceausescu Says:
Jul 24, 2010 - For indexability = use sitemaps.xml, .txt for yahoo, bing,google webmaster tools submitting. For usability - use sitemap.html
srikanth94 Says:
Oct 4, 2010 - blogger has a gun to my head!
cyberaze Says:
Feb 18, 2011 - Alltho sitemap.xml is now a standard we shouldn't disregard natural indexing. Because most of the online sitemap generators do not allow more than 500-1000 URLs in the fitemap (for free) I've made my own online sitemap generator which allows up to 20.000 URLs and it's free of charge. You can find it at: sitemap-xml [dot] net
Sitemapmaker Says:
Jun 1, 2011 - There are about 12 different types of sitemaps, Google uses the xml version, but all are important.
agapitoflores001 Says:
Nov 11, 2011 - I think they are of both significance. It will only have to depend on hoe it is used by the user.
arafathhashmi Says:
Nov 14, 2011 - Guys this video made in 2009, and now the situations have changed. Don't blame Matt for this..
SteveMoonUK Says:
Oct 7, 2009 - Good question. Simple, concise and helpful answer. Google, you are awesome.