Three things - 

1. I believe that the 'lost user' will have scrolled to the bottom
of the page and, if executed as well as the Plusnet example ([3] in
my previous post), they will find the sitemap.
2. Sitemaps in the footer are a safety net - not a principle
navigation tool
3. Footer sitemaps are unlikely to be comprehensive for
deep/expansive sites and, in these cases, will be served well by by
focussing on the higher-level categories. I'm not sure there is any
use for a exhaustive sitemap on information rich sites - no-one wants
to look at the entire catalogue of the Library of Congress on a single
page, this is where search applies. Most of the sites I cited below
have a large number of pages and their sitemaps provide great
fall-back signage to the majority of content.


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