[boxby]

my web developer has "always" in for the frequency of some pages, the tools etc that i've seen all use daily, but not always.

Is always valid?
which is better?

[Paragon]

Personally I use weekly, unless the pages really do change daily.

A useful link regarding sitemaps and their potential effects:
http://blog.stinkyinkshop.co.uk/sitemap-hell.html

[boxby]

the pages in question change continually, not once a day.

[Paragon]

Your options are "always", "hourly", "daily", "weekly", "monthly", "yearly" or "never". The value "always" should be used to describe pages that change each time they are accessed. The value "never" should be used to describe archived URLs

[boxby]

Thank you. Job done!!

[meader83]

Originally Posted by Paragon

Personally I use weekly, unless the pages really do change daily.

A useful link regarding sitemaps and their potential effects:
http://blog.stinkyinkshop.co.uk/sitemap-hell.html

Interesting article. What is everyone elses opinion on this. Can sitemap priority really affect your rankings that much?

[An Oasis]

Yup they can mess things around, another bad mistake is to assume that all SE's can use sitemaps Live & Ask can't so your main navigation needs to be in place firstly and sitemaps second.

[OldWelshGuy]

I Posted this on Highrankings 2 years ago

Jun 20 2006, 02:58 AM
My theory on sitemaps is that without them, Google builds the hierachy skeleton of the site, and IT decides the importance of pages.

Most site owners submit a sitemap and THEY decide on the importance of pages by altering the value . Although this is simply an internal value, it is there for a reason. I think that this value is throwing page importance out of the window, and this is the reason for spidering problems and lost rankings. A simple clash of technologies.

So you could say I agree with this