News Source: http://blog.stinkyinkshop.co.uk
Story Found By: GarethGSINC 1395 Days ago
Category: SEO
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News Source: http://blog.stinkyinkshop.co.uk
Story Found By: GarethGSINC 1395 Days ago
Category: SEO
6 Comments
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More people need to read this - and the only reason why they’re not is because they don’t recognise your name.
Hmm... I’ve dealt with some f’d up sitemaps and I’ve never seen this happen to my sites. Low priority might have delayed crawling, but I’ve never seen pages disappear from the index because of the priority that was set in the xml file. Any idea why setting a low crawl priority would cause pages to get de-indexed? I’d like to understand this better.
@AG - Thanks Andrew - true I am not a ’Sphinn king’...the only option I guess is to delete and someone else can resubmit http://blog.stinkyinkshop.co.uk/sitemap-hell.html for the greater good? Or is that bad?...@pmphung - I think why this one ’hurt’ the site so much is that it de-prioritised the pages on the site that orginally ranked well and they were pages people bought from. It was apparent quickly. I spoke to the owner and I don’t think they totally got de-indexed but the lower priority meant they fell down the G rankings, resulting in lower traffic etc.
That’s a real eye opener. I had no idea that a poor site map could have such an effect on your business - but I’m glad that I now know. Kudos to the company for sorting it out quickly - they were lucky that they only made one change and not a stack of changes at the same time otherwise they would have been in serious trouble.Thanks for posting.
I’m still not sure I believe the simple causal argument. Maybe there was something else going on too?
The company has said they are happy to test it again for any doubters - but they need some cash to cover the loss of orders that they feel will ensue. I said the SEO world is unlikely to put money where their mouth is on this one :-)