Comments on: Does Setting Priority & Frequency in Your Sitemap Help Increase Rankings?

By: BrettMove

BrettMove — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:55:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure that GSitecrawler is dead.

By: Lisa Bell

Lisa Bell — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:50:00 +0000

Thanks for sorting this out.

By: Fábio - Porto Alegre

Fábio - Porto Alegre — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:40:00 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I personally don´t think that this could do any help, it´s more likely to make mistakes with setting priorities. Let your internal structure and Backlinks do this calculation for the search engines and you get a better result.

By: WHittnie

WHittnie — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:14:26 +0000

This is Great! I ‘m so happy I found this blog and get to understand my sitemap! i just created one today and have been reading countless things on how to optimize it. Great information I hope my page starts ranking higher soon!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:45:05 +0000

I stumbled upon this post, enjoyed the content, and wanted to throw in my two cents. While I am by no means an authority I’ve found that honestly stipulating to google the importance of your various URLs via your sitemap seems to result in a more comprehensive crawl of the URLs within your sitemap. Working for a webstore I had previous difficulty in getting the URLs for my store adequately crawled. At best I hit around 2000 of the URLs with a blanket-statement sitemap that was created by an automated program that decided for me what my frequency and priority tags were going to be. This was the case for months despite various linking campaigns and so forth. After taking the time to customize the important URLs within the sitemap this jumped to around 6k crawled, or the entire sitemap.

It seems like with most things, Google hates the appearance of automation and seems to reward the appearance of manual labor. At least this was the result from my little experiment.

Now, to sort out the rest of Goggle’s mysteries such as our disappearing page rank at the end o the year…

By: RD Blackburn

RD Blackburn — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:20:24 +0000

I personally use priority levels from 1.0 through 0.6. This priority level system creates another interesting question. Which one is better to use – sub-domains or sub-directories. I contend that sub-domains would be better to use because to my knowledge you can only set priority on about four pages (1.0 through 0.6) in any given directory including sub-directories within the same home directory but a sub-domain gives you the opportunity to set priority levels. Just some additional food for thought. I couldn’t agree more with your view on this topic. Thanks for the great post.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:37:47 +0000

I’ve made a sitemap and am wondering whether to set the domain name http://www.helderziendelezingen.be to 1 or the domain name AND index page http://www.helderziendelezingen.be/index.html also to 1? or should the index page itself be 0 and the domain 1?

By: Brian Halstrom

Brian Halstrom — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:40:48 +0000

I was doing research on sitemap priority and frequency. I downloaded the GSitecrawler program and I’ll give it a try to create my sitemap for my company.

Thank you for this info!

By: Henrietta

Henrietta — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:40:07 +0000

Hi,
I found this post on the internet while I was Googling “How should I set up my sitemap priority.”

I have set all the posts to 100%, I don’t know whether it could hurt me but I have had that set for months now. And frequency to Daily

Thank you
Henrietta

By: John Ray

John Ray — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:39:14 +0000

Thanks for bringing some clrrity to this. A sitemap is a sitemap is a sitemap apparently isn’t true.