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XML Sitemap - How important is to set Priority, Lastmod, and Changefreq Tags?

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by meri0098, Dec 15, 2010.

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    Do you think is it important to define Priority, Lastmod, Changefreq tags in XML Site Map??
     
    meri0098, Dec 15, 2010 IP
  2. Kiranraj

    Kiranraj Well-Known Member

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    Yes, i think, it is important to set it XML sitemap because on the basis of that crawler crawls your pages & gives importance.
     
    Kiranraj, Dec 21, 2010 IP
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    mmm not important if you just need to submit a sitemap to index your URLs on search engines.But if you are planning to grow site traffic and ranks...etc.You should create a crawler friendly sitemap by including all of it's components.


    Regards.
     
    ceytimes, Jan 9, 2011 IP
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    You should put priority: automaticly, and Changefreq hourly or daily depending on your hosting.
     
    whiteshadow18, Jan 10, 2011 IP
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    Although Google recommends the use of these settings, we have found that only the "lastModDate" is used.
     
    catanich, Jan 11, 2011 IP
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    It's not important at all. It comes important only if very slight changes can help you to gain much more traffic.

    So if you have 2 pages, and google crawls the less important more often (you can figure this out by checking google's cache date) you can set your more valuable page to a higher priority.

    So it worth to be set up when you create your sitemap, but does not really worth any further efforts.
     
    zlori, Jan 21, 2011 IP