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« on: Jun 19, 2009, 01:02:16 am »

Just curious. How many of you guys put a priority code in your sitemap.xml files? Does google require us to put a code or is this just good SEO practice?
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« Reply #1 on: Jun 21, 2009, 04:26:17 am »

I don't think that really matters. I mean after all an xml sitemap is just a hint for a search engine, it doesn't count in the ranking algorithm.

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« Reply #2 on: Jun 21, 2009, 09:10:39 am »

I usually just increase priority for homepage and leave everything else at 0.5.
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« Reply #3 on: Jun 25, 2009, 03:01:02 am »

I don't think that really matters. I mean after all an xml sitemap is just a hint for a search engine, it doesn't count in the ranking algorithm.

So if your site architecture is good, would you just ignore using a sitemap.xml?
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« Reply #4 on: Jun 25, 2009, 03:06:24 am »

BTW -- Since taking over the SEO role in our company, I found that our sitemap.xml feed was broken. And our old froogle feed was broken. Got them both fixed. Our SERPs are improving, but I'm doing lots of other stuff too.
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« Reply #5 on: Jun 16, 2010, 12:57:11 pm »

The code which is putted in the website, it is just for authentication for you that only you can use the google webmaster tool.
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« Reply #6 on: Jun 22, 2010, 09:47:09 pm »

I think priority code in sitemaps is an informal option and many search engines ignores it.
But if you want to know what it is, I can say that it tells search engines which pages are more important. Then search engines crawl them faster.
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« Reply #7 on: Jun 24, 2010, 01:23:32 pm »

they say that html sitemap is ok seo-wise. not sure how true is that.
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« Reply #8 on: Jun 24, 2010, 06:33:22 pm »

I don't think that really matters. I mean after all an xml sitemap is just a hint for a search engine, it doesn't count in the ranking algorithm.

So if your site architecture is good, would you just ignore using a sitemap.xml?

If the search engines can find all the pages of your site anyway, a sitemap does not help.
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« Reply #9 on: Jul 14, 2010, 07:19:17 am »

I think site maps are very important but search engine ignores the priority code so it is of no use...
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« Reply #10 on: Jul 14, 2010, 06:32:23 pm »

Since reading the previous posts, I have tried changing my sitemap's priority codes. It doesn't seem to make any difference.
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