Technical SEO

HTML Sitemap

Quick Definition

An HTML sitemap is a human-readable page listing the major sections and pages of a site, typically linked from the footer.

In context

HTML sitemaps are useful for large sites where users navigate by directory. They have minor SEO benefit through internal linking but are not a substitute for an XML sitemap.

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