Should i remove sitemap from the mainsite at a webshop (footer link) and only submit .XML in Webmaster tools?

[Mickelp]

Case: Webshop with over 2000 products.

I want to make a logical sitemap for Google to follow.

What is best practice at this field?

Should i remove the on-page sitemap there is in html with links (is shown as a footer link called "sitemap") and only have the domain.com/sitemap.xml ?

Links for great articles about making sitemaps are appreciated to.

The system is Magento, if that changes anything.

[NakulGoyal]

You should submit an XML sitemap for the Search Engines and submit it via the Google Webmaster Console and also provide a reference to it from your robots.txt As for the HTML Sitemap, that's more for users. I'd suggest to keep it if it's usable / easy to use by the users.

[JaredMumford]

Hi Mickel -

The answer is both. Keep your html sitemap, and keep the link in the footer as is. Crawlers will look at these but they are generally more for human visits.

Then create your xml sitemap (www.url.com/sitemap.xml) and verify it in Google Webmaster Tools.

Hope this helps!