Need help displaying sitemap

After replies on this board and other research I have decided to put an html sitemap. It is produced by html sitemap software who said it is good for goggle and other endings, The feed back I got showed that for a smaller site (75 pages) a sitemap has some value but it not that important so I took this easy rout. All I have to do is put in my site address and some other preferences and it produces an html sitemap people can see. I like that along with the description hyper links it also has my discretions of reach page however it made the map rather long. I have it on the bottom of my home page but am concerned that the length of it hurts my page and keeps my main keywords from being on the last of the site. The rest of them are in the beginning of the content, sprinkled thought the content and then heavy on the end of it. Any way this makes the map the last of my page. I wanted it on the home page for search engines. If it were not for that it would be on its own page. Having said all that here are questions.

1. Does it hurt my keyword density with the map being on the bottom of my home page?
2. If I put it on a separate page will it still benefit me with search engines making it easier for them to spider my site?
3. If I put it on its own page should I include meta tags, keywords and the like. If I should, I can’t imagine what keywords I would use considering this is just a list like a table of contents.
4. My the way the descriptions have to be on there so just putting in the links is not going to work.

 

Your HTML sitemap should be on it's own page and should be limited to 100 links per page (including navigation and external links).

The age-old adage goes "every page on your site points to your sitemap, and the sitemap points to every page". Some people use it as the landing page for their 404 errors to help users find where they want to be.

Meta description and title are still important as a few spiders will not bother with your page if it doesn't use these tags. Optimization of your sitemap isn't necessary, but it should be keyword rich if it is using each title as link text.