Google - Sitemap have the same priority

Anyone else just started getting Warnings in your Google Webmaster Tools?

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.

Do you reckon this could be a problem?

Did you change any of the priority settings in our sitemap options?

I did almost 6 months ago, but never had google say anything about it.

Set threads and blog entries at 1.0, forumdisplay 0.7 and showpost + profiles to 0.1

but have only see that message in the last 24 hours.

I have the same warnings. I think Google's just added that warning. Nothing serious but i wish there was an ignore button for it.

We'll keep an eye on this. Anyone else who experiences this, please post.

Hi There
i have the same warnings for 1 sitemap of forum and other for site directory
should we do anything?
but they say::::: 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
::::::::::
so i think google see them the same and same all of them are importnant,no one better than the other
what do u think about this?

here is a story about this::
http://newsblaze.com/story/200806241.../topstory.html

yeah, same here...

not all of them though...



sitemap_1.xml.gz
-- OK
sitemap_10.xml.gz
-- Warnings
sitemap_11.xml.gz
-- Warnings
sitemap_12.xml.gz
-- OK
sitemap_2.xml.gz
-- OK
sitemap_3.xml.gz
-- OK
sitemap_4.xml.gz
-- OK
sitemap_5.xml.gz
-- OK
sitemap_6.xml.gz
-- OK
sitemap_7.xml.gz
-- Warnings
sitemap_8.xml.gz
-- Warnings
sitemap_9.xml.gz
-- Warnings

with the following options enabled:

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

We'll keep an eye on this. Anyone else who experiences this, please post.

Hello Joe
Even i'm experiencing the same issue, though i never changed priority settings, probably using the default settings, even sent a support ticket for the same

Cheers

Ok i just noticed another warning message with another forum:

Some URLs in the Sitemap have a high response time.
Some URLs listed in this Sitemap have a high response time. This may indicate a problem with your server or with the content of the page. URL:
Found: India Debate - India Forum - View Profile: AnnaBelle
Jun 25, 2008

What does this warning mean?

Regards

Hello
I just found this:

Warning: All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority - Google webmaster tools | Google Groups

As we are not the only ones having this issue

Looks like those sitemap files contain URLs of the same type (for instance, all URLs in the file are member profile), as a result every record *in that file* has the same priority, hence the waring. However, the priority differs from URLs in other sitemap files (other types like showthread/forumdisplay).

So we should just ignore the warning?

Google may end up updating this themselves. We'll also look at a method of doing more dynamic priority assignments. For now, this should not be a major cause of concern.

it appeared 2 days ago .. and my indexing decreased ? is it related ?

2 or 3 days ago i got 97.000 page indexed
now only 73.000 ??

site:gamesgb.com/vb - Google Search

Please try to modify vbseo_sitemap_functions.php file:
FIND:

PHP Code:

$lastmod = gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s+00:00', $lastmod); 


ADD BELOW:

PHP Code:

        if($vbseo_stat['urls_no'] == 0)
            $priority = min($priority+0.0001, 1.0);