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Google explains when HTML sitemaps remain useful for SEO

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Google clarified that HTML sitemaps can still serve a purpose for SEO despite XML sitemaps becoming the standard.

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Google outlined scenarios in which HTML sitemaps remain useful for search visibility, even as XML sitemaps have become the dominant approach for communicating site structure to search engines.

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