Priority Values in XML Sitemaps

Priority Values in XML Sitemaps:

XML sitemaps protocol was originally created by Google and called Google Sitemaps. Later other search engines such as Yahoo, Ask and MSN adopted the Google Sitemaps format, and Google Sitemaps got renamed into Sitemaps Protocol. Common for both is they define a tag which can be used by the website owner to help search engines determine which pages are most important.

Priority Values:

* Priority values are considered to be relative within your website.
* Valid priority values are: 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0.
* Usually your most important page URL will have priority value: 1.0.
* Priority of pages in the XML sitemap should decrease after importance.