My boss wants me to make a site map and he thinks it would be good to have EVERY link... Is it more important to have every page or a helpful, well organized guide?
Do people really use site maps or is it mostly for Google PR?
So, what format do we use for the sitemap? I found an app that does site maps, and it will save as a .site or export to a different file type for Google. I thought it would be html myself. And then we would place a link to it?
There are two sorts of sitemaps -- one for your users and one for the spiders. The XML one is for the spiders. The HTML one is for your users (though the spiders will crawl it also). I would make the HTML one easy to navigate if you go along that path.
Personally, I have an HTML one AND and XML one and I think that's the best way to do it if it's easy for you to set up.