Does <lastmod> operator pick up metadata changes?

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by Polonez, Sep 16, 2009.

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    Hey,
    I noticed that the date in lastmod operator has not changed after I updated metadata and title. Does lastmod only picks up the changes in the <body>?
    thanks!
     
    Polonez, Sep 16, 2009 IP
  2. brownman

    brownman Peon

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    #2
    It depends of your sitemap generator. Which one do you use?
     
    brownman, Sep 16, 2009 IP
  3. Polonez

    Polonez Peon

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    #3
    we create a sitemap XML file in our web root, it's custom made
     
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    Changed lastmod means for Google that your page is changed and should be placed in the crawler queue.
    If your site is relatively small (not 100K pages) then I suggest to make lastmod updated for all text changes (meta tags may also be important, for example for snippet). If it will cause a lot of unneeded traffic then update lastmod only on important changes like body.
     
    brownman, Sep 17, 2009 IP
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    Often, your webserver will output updated "last-modified" information. You can check this article about our sitemap generator and last modified. (I think it's likely other sitemapper software deal with it the same way)
     
    websitetools, Sep 29, 2009 IP