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HTML Sitemap

A user-facing page listing all key pages on your site. Helps users navigate and search engines discover content.

An HTML sitemap is a webpage that lists and links to all the major pages on your website. Unlike an XML sitemap (which is purely for search engine bots), an HTML sitemap is designed for human users to help them find content that might not be easily accessible through the main navigation menu.

For care visitors, an HTML sitemap provides a "top-down" view of all your resources, from specific care service descriptions to gallery pages and community blog posts. For SEO, it acts as a safety net for "discoverability." If a page is accidentally orphaned (meaning no other pages link to it), it will still be found and indexed by Google via the HTML sitemap, which is typically linked in the footer of every page.