For a sitemap.html page, does the URL slug have to be /sitemap?
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Also, do you have to have anchors in your sitemap.html? or are naked URLs that link okay?
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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
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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.
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link with anchor text.
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