HTML Sitemaps
Creating HTML Sitemaps can be straightforward for small sites. You can build HTML Sitemaps using a simple text editor such as Notepad. For larger sites, it may make more sense to use automated tools that will help you gather all your links. Google suggests the following:
Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
HTML Sitemap Generators
If your site has hundreds or thousands of links, Sitemap generation tools will help you to create multipage Sitemaps. Some of the tools available for this on the Internet include:
Most Internet websites are small. Typically, a small business website would have only a few links, and all the pages would have links to each other. Having a Sitemap in those cases is still valuable, as most sites on the Internet are not designed by professionals, nor do they knowingly employ SEO.
When creating your HTML Sitemap, you should describe all of the links. A link with no description (using its own URL value as the link anchor text) provides very little value. Just placing the URLs without providing any context is plain lazy.
You can automate HTML Sitemap creation for large sites, as long
as all your web pages are using unique <title> tags.
One such GNU General Public License (GPL) tool that can utilize
<title> tags in place of link
anchor text is Daniel Naber’s ...
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