
Originally Posted by
Ziggy
1) An XML sitemaps for the big 3 search engines that have agreed on their format use
2) A .txt sitemap just in case a robot is clueless about the above
3) A visitors sitemap, which is part of my navigation, in case visitors want to just jump through a single page to see what the entire site contains. (Some do use it).
I use all of the above, except the sitemap.txt. I figure that the bots that follow my robot.txt crawl both xml and html sitemaps.
The SE's that don't follow my robot.txt also ignore my xml sitemap and have never grabbed a sitemap.txt before, so I don't bother adding it.
Cheers

Dave
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Compliance: a code word for control
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Do the right thing, even when no one is looking. It's called integrity.
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