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« on: Jun 19, 2009, 02:02:16 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, 05:26:17 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, 10:10:39 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, 04:01:02 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, 04:06:24 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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