What are Benefits to Develop Large HTML Sitemap?

[CommercePundit]

I've developed very simple HTML sitemap on Vista Stores. Today, I was checking Magento extensions and come to know about such a great extension. That will help me to create such a large HTML sitemap on my website similar to following one.

http://wiredsport.com/sitemap/

http://www.breathalyzers.com/sitemap/

http://slindi.com/sitemap/

Which is best structure for HTML sitemap & Which are benefits to develop big HTML sitemap with all pages?

[Aran_Smithson]

Hi,

Personally I see no benefit of having such a indepth HTML site map, its very unlikely that a user is going to scroll through hundreds of almost identical looking lines of products to find what they want. I think a huge sitemap as showin in your examples only serves to confuse people and make it difficult to find what they want (the opposite of what a sitemap is actually for!)

Listing the site structure down to category level/sub category levels is plenty.

Here is an example of a HTML sitemap done well http://www.argos.co.uk/static/StaticDisplay/includeName/sitemap.htm

Hope that helps

Regards

Aran

[mediabase]

Hi CommercePundit, A sitemap is a a navigational tool that lists the web pages of a website, which is used by search engines and visitors to help look for pages within the website. Sitemaps are typically organized in a hierarchical style and provide indexing information for search engine bots.

Site maps are very useful for a website. there are 2 types of websites search engine site map and User site map XML Sitemap & HTML Sitemap.

XML Sitemap of a website will be created and submitted to webmaster's console in order to ping the search engines crawler to index the inner-pages of the website. An HTML site map is a page within your site that links to all the other important pages on your site. HTML site map is important, two main reasons i am telling you why?It helps search engines crawl and understand your site, and it helps human visitors browse your site more efficiently

The effects of both sitemap in SEO is also crucial.

Overal multiple sitemaps helps to increase in indexation  & traffic.

I hope that your query had been solved.

[CommercePundit]

Hi Aran,

You have given me such a good example of HTML sitemap. But, I was thinking to distribute page rank at product page level. So, It may help me to improve ranking over my product pages. What you think about it?

[Aran_Smithson]

A well organised natural site structure and navigation system will ensure that page rank 'flows' all the way down to product pages.

No need for including products on sitemap (though you can include them in your XML sitemap).

[CommercePundit]

I got your point. What you think about page rank? Can I pass maximum page rank to my product pages. It may increase my organic ranking during long trail keywords.