How to create a sitemap page...

for the spiders to index all my pages

[tvldeals]

How do you do this and what format html text would I use to display this or even call it? /sitemap.html?

Thanks!

[chengfu]

Normally I just build a page that is very simple in layout but is absolutely "user-compatible".
Layout is something like this:

Theme
-->Category-name
---->Article-name

The page is available as /sitemap.html and linked in the navigation near to the imprint.
This seems to work just fine for my pages.

[Mohamed_E]

Agree with chengfu.

As to the HTML, I use nested lists:

<ul>
 <li>First Theme
 <ul>
 <li>Subtheme A
 <ul>
  <li><a href="article1.html">Article 1</a>
  <li><a href="article2.html">Article 2</a>
 </ul>
...
 </ul>
...
</ul>

[chengfu]

That sound interesting, so far I've used div's and increased the "padding-left" by 10px for each level.

It would be interesting to know if this makes a difference for google as the document structure in my solution is not as clearly visible as it is with your list-solution.

[stargeek]

with the attention google pays to the structural <h1> tags i would bet that a "semantic-web" friendly sitemap, the the <ul> solution, would help.