Site indexing in Yandex and Google. How to understand Yandex advice correctly?

Question

Google

Yandex advised to do this:

create a sitemap, i.e. a page or several pages that contain links to all the site's documents

How to understand it? Create a simple page and cram it there:

сайт.рф/ссыль1
сайт.рф/ссыль2
сайт.рф/ссыль3

Or do something like this:

<a href = "сайт.рф/ссыль1">ссыль1</a>
<a href = "сайт.рф/ссыль2">ссыль2</a>
<a href = "сайт.рф/ссыль3">ссыль3</a>

And in general, how to help yourself and Yandex with Google? What do you recommend for SEO?

Answer 1

The HTML sitemap looks something like this .
In addition, it is recommended to have a sitemap in a generally accepted XML format, which indicates not only links to pages, but also their additional parameters, such as page refresh frequency, and so on.

Answer 2

google > yandex xml sitemap >>> https://help.yandex.ru/webmaster/indexing-options/...
voila

Answer 3

In order not to take a steam bath, type "Create a site map online" and you will understand everything what it is and what it is eaten with. The output will be a file. I advise you to dig into it and study it.