How do i Organize an XML Sitemap for Google Webmaster Tools?
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OK, so i used am xlm sitemap generator tool, xml-sitemaps.com, for Google Webmaster Tools submission. The problem is that the priorities are all out of wack.
How on earth do i organize it with 1000's of pages??
Should i be spending hours organizing it?
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I'm sure there are some people that do prioritize their sitemap manually, but not me. I don't think the priority setting is THAT important!
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part of it is our blog the other part is not CMS but 30+ pages. Do people organize it manually. Is it really worth it?
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I'm assuming that you have a CMS? Maybe you can program your CMS to generate the sitemap and automatically assign priorities. If not, don't worry about it - the priorities only apply to crawl priority, not rankings.
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