For a sitemap.html page, does the URL slug have to be /sitemap?

[imjonny123]

Also, do you have to have anchors in your sitemap.html? or are naked URLs that link okay?

[Rajesh.Prajapati]

link with anchor text.

[seoman10]

Providing you link to your HTML sitemap from at least some of the pages on your site search engines should find it regardless of what it's called.

[ThompsonPaul]

Search Engine crawlers don't pay much attention to HTML sitemaps - they're considered thin/worthless pages with no real value, since they're just a huge collection of links with no context.

Build them so they are useful and relevant for a human visitor, or just make sure your site navigation and internal search is well-thought-out and drop the HTML sitemap altogether (which is my strong recommendation).

Paul