HTML and XML sitemaps you can help Google, Yahoo and other search engines to:
- Index your entire website including blogs and forums.
- Speed up finding and showing changed content.
- Ease the bandwidth load on your webserver.
- Decide pages shown in search engine result pages.
The most important sitemaps you can create:
- XML sitemaps protocol: Ping Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN with XML sitemaps / Google sitemaps.
- Google mobile sitemap: Google XML sitemap for mobile phones content.
- Google news sitemap: Google XML sitemap for news content.
- Google video sitemap: Google XML sitemap for videos.
- Google code sitemap: Google XML sitemap for source code files.
- Google image sitemap: Google XML sitemap for images and graphics.
- Google base feed: Google Base extends RSS feeds. (Only common tags are supported.)
- RSS sitemap feed: RSS feed files use XML and often used for blog and forum websites.
- ROR sitemap feed: ROR sitemaps extends RSS feeds with more information.
- ASP.net web sitemap: ASP.Net website navigation and menu controls use Web.sitemap files.
- Text sitemap: Sitemap URL list format used by some search engines, e.g. Google and Yahoo.
- HTML sitemap: Many websites use HTML sitemaps as a navigation aid to visitors.
- HTML menu: HTML sitemap templates can also create URL lists for Javascript and CSS menus.