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Originally Posted by m42
How many people recommend creating a user accessible sitemap on their websites?
What do you feel are the advantages?
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Pretty much dito everyone else on this so far, but I'll add this:
While a site map can facilitate robots finding pages, one's navigation structure should already do that . . . and what's more there are various other site map formats for search engines such as Google's XML site map format which they can "digest" just as well if not better.
On rather smallish sites, the navigation should perfectly well serve as the "site map" for both robots and end-users; however, and much larger sites, a browser-acessible site map is a good idea but depending on internal link stratagies, is probably more helpful to the end-user. For example, USPS and UPS change their sites around quite a bit, and I'm always having to dig into their site map to find things I used to know where they were.
At the end of the day, though, creating user accessible sitemap would never be a bad idea.