This is a obnoxious warning - especially in the case where a site map
lists a single URL since the URL listed is the only page that is meant
to be indexed.
The warning should be disabled if there are less than 5 URLs in a
given site map. It makes NO SENSE if there is only ONE URL in the map
(of course, the one has the same priority as itself - DUH!).
Quoted message:
"All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority.
"All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the
default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular
URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact your
site's performance in search results. If all URLs have the same
priority, Google can't tell which are more important."
I am getting this "warning" and I was wondering if there was anything
negative that comes along with it. All our URLs in our sXML itemap
are product landing pages and they all have the same priority. If I
leave them all the same, so the warning continues, what will happen?
Our number of indexed URLs has dropped about 90% in the past few
days. is this related?
I would venture to guess this is a problem only if all prorities are
at 1, not at a more sedate value like 0.5, with just the homepage (or
some other main page) at 1.
> I am getting this "warning" and I was wondering if there was anything
> negative that comes along with it. All our URLs in our sXML itemap
> are product landing pages and they all have the same priority. If I
> leave them all the same, so the warning continues, what will happen?
> Our number of indexed URLs has dropped about 90% in the past few
> days. is this related?
> I would venture to guess this is a problem only if all prorities are
> at 1, not at a more sedate value like 0.5, with just the homepage (or
> some other main page) at 1.
> On Jun 24, 3:22 pm, ABE wrote:
> > I am getting this "warning" and I was wondering if there was anything
> > negative that comes along with it. All our URLs in our sXML itemap
> > are product landing pages and they all have the same priority. If I
> > leave them all the same, so the warning continues, what will happen?
> > Our number of indexed URLs has dropped about 90% in the past few
> > days. is this related?
Hello everyone i am having a huge problem with my site.
I have a site that having a 1400 visitors/day 90% from google (data
from analytics). From 3 day i expected that the past day I had 200
visitors, and 240, and tuday 170. When I see the Analytics stat 0
visitors from google search! When I go to the Webmaster Tool, gat the
fallowing message WARNING - All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same
priority.
I had for priority 0.8 - for all my url in the sitemap - today I had
modified to 0.5 all my sites url in sitemap.xml.
When is see in google site:my site - I am having 46.000 site in google
index. But when i search for the most favorite keywords isn't in the
100 result.
Its possible to bring back my site ranking? Please give me some info
about this.
Thank you all, and sorry for my English, i am from Romania.
> And it would most definitely NOT be the reason why your indexed page
> count is dropping.
> Look at the site's structure and content, never mind the sitemap.
> On Jun 24, 3:57 pm, webado wrote:
> > I would venture to guess this is a problem only if all prorities are
> > at 1, not at a more sedate value like 0.5, with just the homepage (or
> > some other main page) at 1.
> > On Jun 24, 3:22 pm, ABE wrote:
> > > I am getting this "warning" and I was wondering if there was anything
> > > negative that comes along with it. All our URLs in our sXML itemap
> > > are product landing pages and they all have the same priority. If I
> > > leave them all the same, so the warning continues, what will happen?
> > > Our number of indexed URLs has dropped about 90% in the past few
> > > days. is this related?
The relative importance of pages on your site. For example, your home
page might have a relative importance of 1.0, category pages have an
importance of 0.8, and individual blog entries or product pages have
an importance of 0.5. This priority only indicates the importance of a
particular URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact
the ranking of your pages in search results.
> Our pages all have a 0.8 priority in the sitemap. Our XML sitemaps
> only list product landing pages so they do not include content or the
> homepage.
Phil Payne wrote:
> On Jun 25, 4:03 pm, ABE wrote:
> > would removing the priority completely from our sitemaps solve this?
> > because everything has the same priority that is in the sitemap.
> I find that very hard to believe, but yes - it will remove the warning.
However, there could be a problem with that - if one has multiple
sitemaps covering the same site (each covering part of it). It's
possible that for the same hostname, the priorities across sitemaps
could come into play. I think that we need that question answered
first: Are there any search engines that consider the priority field
across ALL site maps of a give hostname - or do all search engines
consider the field as a ranking within each site map as distinct from
other site maps for the same host?
> However, there could be a problem with that - if one has multiple
> sitemaps covering the same site (each covering part of it). It's
> possible that for the same hostname, the priorities across sitemaps
> could come into play.
Or rhe same URL in multiple sitemaps with differing values?
Any answers to this? It all seems a little unfixable for the dynamic
driven site map with 1000+ product pages. I meen it just seems like it
can not be done.
So I think once Google see the problem, they will fix it.! Or offer a
solution...... I hope.!!!!!
> > However, there could be a problem with that - if one has multiple
> > sitemaps covering thesamesite (each covering part of it). It's
> > possible that for thesamehostname, the priorities across sitemaps
> > could come into play.
> Or rhesameURL in multiple sitemaps with differing values?
I just wanted to give some more information about this warning
message. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with your site
or your Sitemap file. Since "priority is relative within your site, by
using the same priority value across all URLs you're effectively not
telling us anything at all. Theoretically, it would be cleaner to just
not include any priority values in your Sitemap file, if you can't
provide relevant information with that number (personally, I would try
to do that).
So in a sense, it's just giving you a heads-up that you could be
providing something of value through that field instead of just having
us ignore it altogether :). It's up to you & by leaving the same
number for all URLs or by removing the tags altogether you certainly
won't cause your site any "harm."
I am so totally with you about this. The warning arrived from nowhere
and is a total clusterfuck. All, repeat ALL my pages have the same
priority. I run news sites. This bullcrap obscures real errors.
Back down, Google. Take it away, or at least make it optional.
> This is a obnoxious warning - especially in the case where a site map
> lists a single URL since the URL listed is the only page that is meant
> to be indexed.
> The warning should be disabled if there are less than 5 URLs in a
> given site map. It makes NO SENSE if there is only ONE URL in the map
> (of course, the one has the same priority as itself - DUH!).
> Quoted message:
> "All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority.
> "All the URLs in your Sitemap are set to the same priority (not the
> default priority). Priority indicates the importance of a particular
> URL relative to other URLs on your site, and doesn't impact your
> site's performance in search results. If all URLs have the same
> priority, Google can't tell which are more important."
@John Mu: This extra information is just blinding us by shining a
light into our eyes. You have great big teams of great big
programmers. Get them to inspect the file. if all priorities are
equal, PERHAPS WE MEANT IT THAT WAY.
Your answer is amusing and meaningless. It obscures the issue. Give
us information by all means, but NOT AS A WARNING
> I just wanted to give some more information about this warning
> message. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with your site
> or your Sitemap file. Since "priority is relative within your site, by
> using the same priority value across all URLs you're effectively not
> telling us anything at all. Theoretically, it would be cleaner to just
> not include any priority values in your Sitemap file, if you can't
> provide relevant information with that number (personally, I would try
> to do that).
> So in a sense, it's just giving you a heads-up that you could be
> providing something of value through that field instead of just having
> us ignore it altogether :). It's up to you & by leaving the same
> number for all URLs or by removing the tags altogether you certainly
> won't cause your site any "harm."
> Any answers to this? It all seems a little unfixable for the dynamic
> driven site map with 1000+ product pages. I meen it just seems like it
> can not be done.
I don't see that it needs an 'answer'. If your dynamic sitemap
doesn't maintain and use the required metadata, pick one that does.
> I am so totally with you about this. The warning arrived from nowhere
> and is a total clusterfuck. All, repeat ALL my pages have the same
> priority. I run news sites.
Uh huh.
"Pope assassinated."
"Plague of dog fleas in Nowhere, AZ"
Yup - I can see that.
Google has actually provided a facility you can exploit more than most
of us. The buggy whip manufacturers went out of business.
John, that is true if your site only has 1 sitemap. I have multiple
sitemaps for different sections of my site (which I need because my
site is quite large). One of my sitemaps just includes categories
that are all of equal importance (let's say the priority is set to
'5'). But the other sitemaps, for the same domain, have priorities set
from 1 to .1. So the sitemap that has all the URLs set to 5, IS
passing relevantinformation to Google relative to the other sitemaps
for the domain.
I think you need to reexamine your warning to include all sitemaps
across a domain.
> I just wanted to give some more information about this warning
> message. It does not mean that there is anything wrong with your site
> or your Sitemap file. Since "priority is relative within your site, by
> using the same priority value across all URLs you're effectively not
> telling us anything at all. Theoretically, it would be cleaner to just
> not include any priority values in your Sitemap file, if you can't
> provide relevant information with that number (personally, I would try
> to do that).
> So in a sense, it's just giving you a heads-up that you could be
> providing something of value through that field instead of just having
> us ignore it altogether :). It's up to you & by leaving the same
> number for all URLs or by removing the tags altogether you certainly
> won't cause your site any "harm."
In a few of my WMT profiles I have gzipped sitemap xml files and
corresponding sitemap index files. The warning appears next to each
individual sitemap file. It appears as if the "process" only considers
URLs within the same file, instead of looking at the entire set of
sitemap files.
Samo goes for me. I do have same priority for all pages in the single
sitemap file, but I actually have dozens sitemap files that I submit
through sitemap index. And priority is well defined in the files, but
Google watch them separately, not as a part of an entire sitemap
index.
So what should I do?! Fix my sitemaps or wait for the Google to fix
the issue?
> In a few of my WMT profiles I have gzipped sitemap xml files and
> corresponding sitemap index files. The warning appears next to each
> individual sitemap file. It appears as if the "process" only considers
> URLs within the same file, instead of looking at the entire set of
> sitemap files.
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