What is Site Map and distinguish between HTML sitemap and XML sitemap?
 

What is Site Map and distinguish between HTML sitemap and XML sitemap?

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The HTML sitemap is for humans. It is a quick map/overview of the pages on your site which are listed using links (with anchor text). People can use it to locate a page they need quickly and easily.

The XML sitemap is for search engine spiders/bots. It is there to tell the search engines which URLs are part of your website. It appears as code. It helps the search engines find pages that they might miss on a normal crawl and it is also good if you have dynamic content or is new. Submit the XML sitemap as a feed in webmaster tools.

An XML sitemap is a tool used by search engines to crawl your site.
A HTML sitemap is map of your site displayed in a user friendly format, a page with links that the user can use to navigate your website

A XML sitemap protocol is specifically intended for search engine spiders. At its root, XML is a file that includes all the behind the scenes activity on a web site.

HTML sitemap is used to allow search engines to crawl better a site.

XML sitemap is a bit of Extensible Markup Language (XML), a standard machine-readable format consumable by search engines and other data-munching programs like feed readers.