I have a couple of car dealers.....the XML map is auto generated evertime the page is loaded. Now a few questions.
1) I have the ability to set the "Change Frequency" to daily, weekly, and monthly. What is this useful for? Obviously I would want the important pages that are updated more often to be set at daily or weekly right?
2) I can change the "Priority Level" 0-100. What good is this. Should they all have the same priority level? Should some have 50% priority while other more important have 75%?
Also Google never crawls my car inventory....or it will crawl a coupld of cars while there are hundreds that go uncrawled. How can I get the car listing crawled more? Should I mix up the order of the XML map so the stuff at the top changes. Because right now it is always the same order?
Here is an example:
http://www.jaguarmarin.com/sitemap.xml Hello Thomas,
I'm moving this to the SEO forums where there is more people skilled on sitemap related stuff. 1) Set the important pages that get updated often to 'daily' change frequency, for others, leave them as 'monthly' or 'weekly' as appropriate. If you put all change frequency as 'daily' with the hope of getting recrawled daily then I think Google complains about it. Atleast some pages in the sitemap need to have different frequency/ priority.
2) Are you sure the priority is 0-100? As per here valid values are 0.0 to 1.0.
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php
Mixing up the order of the page listings is not going to cause any difference in the crawling/spidering process. If some pages are not being crawled, make sure they are
1) I have the ability to set the "Change Frequency" to daily, weekly, and monthly. What is this useful for? Obviously I would want the important pages that are updated more often to be set at daily or weekly right?
2) I can change the "Priority Level" 0-100. What good is this. Should they all have the same priority level? Should some have 50% priority while other more important have 75%?
Also Google never crawls my car inventory....or it will crawl a coupld of cars while there are hundreds that go uncrawled. How can I get the car listing crawled more? Should I mix up the order of the XML map so the stuff at the top changes. Because right now it is always the same order?
Here is an example:
http://www.jaguarmarin.com/sitemap.xml Hello Thomas,
I'm moving this to the SEO forums where there is more people skilled on sitemap related stuff. 1) Set the important pages that get updated often to 'daily' change frequency, for others, leave them as 'monthly' or 'weekly' as appropriate. If you put all change frequency as 'daily' with the hope of getting recrawled daily then I think Google complains about it. Atleast some pages in the sitemap need to have different frequency/ priority.
2) Are you sure the priority is 0-100? As per here valid values are 0.0 to 1.0.
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php
Mixing up the order of the page listings is not going to cause any difference in the crawling/spidering process. If some pages are not being crawled, make sure they are