| Pages & Google XML Sitemap Worpress Pluggin
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arkain
msg:4186308 | 5:03 am on Aug 13, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Hello,
With my blog install I set a static page for the homepage and page called "blog" for the blog.
Now, Wordpress is NOT installed in a directory called blog, I just set it set to a page called "blog" via WP settings.
Problem:
The sitemaps pluggin treats my blog page like any other page (about, contact, etc). Putting it to a change frequency of monthly and a priority of .3.
Obviously not good. So I 1) changed the pluggin options to not include pages and 2) via the pluggin interface, I added the pages manually so I could control the frequency and priority.
I have noticed that when I publish new content it rewrites the sitemap automaticaly (as it should) but it includes my pages even though I do not have the option to include page selected.
The end result is duplicate pages with different rules:
domain.com/blog .3 monthly
domain.com/blog .9 daily
1) What are the ramifications of this in terms of search bots?
2) Does this really matter
3) Do I simply have to manual edit the sitemap? Or is there a work around?
Thank you for reading.
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goodroi
msg:4186436 | 11:07 am on Aug 13, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Search bots use sitemap files as a suggestion of what they should index. The sitemap file does not limit or control their crawling. Your sitemap is not ideal but imho it is not a big issue to worry about.
I would be much more concerned about your content and backlinks.
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arkain
msg:4188028 | 12:26 am on Aug 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I agree with your point.
Sitemaps help bots determine which should be indexed first, but it is not like a command or anything. Just helps if it should crawl domain.com or domain.com/page-title
I actual figured out a work around. I just "rebuild" my site map automatically and everything is fixed.
homepage priority 1
blog priority .9
everything else .1-.6
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