The friendliness of the search engine is the same. In fact, there are some differences between the two types of site maps. XML site maps are site maps for the search engine, HTML site maps are site maps that increase user experience. They are displayed to visitors. So what is the role of XML site maps in large portal websites?
I. XML site map can prevent content duplication
An excellent XML site map allows your website to be captured by search engines better. If this XML site map can help you eliminate websites with duplicate content, in this way, your website will be very clean, and the website will be given the appropriate weight. The main keywords of the website will also be better ranked in the search engine.
2. Better help search engines capture website content
On the Enterprise site or on websites that have consulted too many users or search engines, they may not be able to find the content they need in the first time. Therefore, these websites require the help of website maps, in order to achieve both user experience and search engine optimization. For some personal websites and enterprise websites, it is more necessary to create an XML site map, because these websites pay more attention to search engine optimization and ranking, it is hoped that all the content of the website can be captured by the search engine. For a website that is not well indexed, creating an XML site map can greatly prolong the crawling time of search engine spider within the website, this completely improves the indexing of updated content. Therefore, an XML site map is an indispensable map format for each website.
III. Help search engines quickly include products and URLs of large e-commerce websites
If you have a very large e-commerce website, your website contains thousands of products and categories, it is impossible to list the URLs of these products and categories on a general web page map. In this respect, the XML site map can display a large amount of Web site information, you can also inform the search engine of your website URL, which is quite helpful for launching a new website.
Therefore, XML site maps are very important for large enterprise websites and e-commerce websites, and play a considerable role in other small and medium enterprise websites and personal websites, but it is not as obvious as that of large websites. Therefore, webmasters can make website maps suitable for their websites and for search engine spider based on their website conditions.