Google webmasters tools warning?

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by comedy1, Jan 9, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    I have a warning in my webmaster tools. I need your help for this.

    Warning message: All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority.
    All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact your site's performance in search results. If all URLs have the same priority, Google can't tell which are more important.

    And also I see this too, is this normal or strange?
    Total URLs in Sitemap :365
    Indexed URLs in Sitemap :324

    What do you think about these?

    Thanks for your help.
     
    comedy1, Jan 9, 2009 IP
  2. websitetools

    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    Common error. You can check this sitemaps priority article for solutions. Either use a better sitemapper or leave the values out.


    Read this about the reported indexed URLs. The numbers are not necessarily actual.
     
    websitetools, Jan 11, 2009 IP
  3. webrickco

    webrickco Active Member

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    Priority is a tag that is not mandatory. Either you inform it with different priorities for your site URL, or, if you wish to have same priority to every of your URL, you simply don't put this tag. Google webmaster tools is warning you (and it is only a simple warning that won't prejudice your indexing), that all your URL have same priority, which makes no sense to this tool. If you don't need this TAG just don't put it into your sitemap. In fact the only compulsory tag is LOC inside the URL tag. Take a look at http://www.sitemaps.org for more information on that subject.

    And if you want to generate a sitemap in which you can decide to remove those optional tags, try http://www.webrickco.com/buildsitemap.php. It's entirely free and can build up to 10000 URL sitemaps.
     
    webrickco, Jan 12, 2009 IP
  4. comedy1

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    Hi,

    Thanks for your answers. How can I leave the values out?
     
    comedy1, Feb 24, 2009 IP