google webmaster is not publishing html sitemap?

[Citizens Unity Of India]

hey friends i had made a sitemap html page by this site xml-sitemaps.com/ and i downloaded it and uploaded it to my root folder of my website but google webmaster is not publishing it whenever i am trying to publish its says error html file is not supported by search engines what to do now.
the file name is sitemap.html
the file name is sitemap.html

[David]

Hi Sourabh,

What is the file name you used for your site map?

The site map needs to be in a .xml format not html.

[Reckoner]

yes

[Rich]

You can only submit XML sitemap in Google Webmaster. Please Recheck!

[Tauseef Azhar]

Hello Sourabh

Google Webmaster does not support HTML sitemap. It supports on XML sitemap. Create it with sitemap creators, and then upload it onto the root folder. Finally, submit the XML sitemap to GWT, and you're done.

Hope it helps

Cheers

[techpiles]

We can submit only xml sitemap in google webmaster tools. Check again there is no any option for xml sitemap.

[yan]

why not submit xml sitemap?

Here is an xml sitemap auto generator that I usually use: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/