Is the User Sitemap dead?
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There's a discussion going on in our office about sitemaps. I thought it'd be a good idea to get the thoughts of the Moz community in on it, too.
What are your thoughts? is the User Sitemap still an effective tool to utilize?
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Are you referencing the sitemap link at the bottom of a lot of older websites? Typically those links lead to a page with links to every page on the website. This is more a of a tactic to better navigation purposes. Is this correct?
To answer your question, good question! I would be interested to hear what others say as well.
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if users sitemaps = HTML sitemaps I think they are still useful for page discovery and ensure your site is properly crawled by google, but they are not as good as they were at passing juice and reduce the page distance. with so much semantic and LSI Google is trying to find relevant editorial links instead of just a chunk of links in a page to pass PR.
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