sitemaps priority 0.5 - GoFuckYourself.com

spacedog · 05-10-2006, 03:58 PM

I'm clueless on this one-- making sitemaps, it's always at 0.5 on the form, but I can change this to anything between 0.0 to 1.0

What is it for, what's recommended? Is 1.0 higher priority better, or should 0.5 be for in the middle? I don't get it...

Please explain..

thanks

jayeff · 05-10-2006, 04:46 PM

I haven't seen anyone claim that Google (or any other SE's) actually pay attention to these ratings. They represent your take on the relative importance of your pages (1=high, 0=low), but the SE's will go ahead and rate/rank your pages according to their own algorithms.

Of course, that could change and it wouldn't be the first time the "experts" got it wrong anyway. It cannot hurt to put a little thought into the numbers you use.

AgentCash · 05-10-2006, 04:51 PM

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The priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site. Valid values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This value has no effect on your pages compared to pages on other sites, and only lets the search engines know which of your pages you deem most important so they can order the crawl of your pages in the way you would most like.

The default priority of a page is 0.5.

Please note that the priority you assign to a page has no influence on the position of your URLs in a search engine's result pages. Search engines use this information when selecting between URLs on the same site, so you can use this tag to increase the likelihood that your more important pages are present in a search index.

Also, please note that assigning a high priority to all of the URLs on your site will not help you. Since the priority is relative, it is only used to select between URLs on your site; the priority of your pages will not be compared to the priority of pages on other sites.

From: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sit.../protocol.html

05-10-2006, 03:58 PM	#1
spacedog Yes that IS me. Bitch. Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 14,149	sitemaps priority 0.5 I'm clueless on this one-- making sitemaps, it's always at 0.5 on the form, but I can change this to anything between 0.0 to 1.0 What is it for, what's recommended? Is 1.0 higher priority better, or should 0.5 be for in the middle? I don't get it... Please explain.. thanks

05-10-2006, 04:46 PM	#2
jayeff Confirmed User Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 2,944	I haven't seen anyone claim that Google (or any other SE's) actually pay attention to these ratings. They represent your take on the relative importance of your pages (1=high, 0=low), but the SE's will go ahead and rate/rank your pages according to their own algorithms. Of course, that could change and it wouldn't be the first time the "experts" got it wrong anyway. It cannot hurt to put a little thought into the numbers you use.