The latest Seorountable blog post is talking about why HTML sitemap is better than XML sitemap. Here is a video in which Google's Matt Cutt answers SEO related questions and preferred HTML sitemap over XML sitemap.
But if the site is small and has less pages, then it can easily use an HTML sitemap for putting everything at one place. It is the oldest way of landing on the search page. Whereas, the XML sitemap can have multiple files but are not visible to the users.
Matt Cutt tells the reason of choosing an HTML sitemap by Google is because both the users and search spiders can follow it for important information results. The other benefit can be that it becomes very easy to make XML version after creating a HTML sitemap.
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How many links or characters numbers are allowed for a HTML sitemap?
A XML will only get 500 links not sure about the HTML.
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Wow, good info!! I never knew this. I'll be updating mine, that's for sure.
I sometimes wonder about that myself. In my opinion though I'd also prefer HTML sitemaps over XML sitemaps because its user friendly and is also easy to navigate a particular using it.
Good info, but interesting how he stressed that if you could ONLY do ONE, he recommends HTML. Why? So users can get some benefit as well. So Google is actually interested in user experience… kinda flies in the face of some Google conspiracy theorists huh?
Thanks for the info.
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