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    change frequency in XML site map

    If I have set the change frequency of my web pages as daily when they are not actually changing daily , will it make any negative impact on my Ranking in google ?

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    Of course yet. G spider might be confused and it will confuse your page authority over the others as well.
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    How can one change the frequency?

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    I don't think so... I search for some discussion in Webmaster World:

    "My take on it is still the same - Google will use your input, but only as one factor in their total crawling algorithm. It's more than a placebo, but Google still makes their own decisions - including the changefreq setting as one factor."~http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3668135.htm

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    How can one change the frequency?
    You can use this tool http://sitemapdoc.com/ to change the freq.

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    No, it is only a guideline to the search engine spiders as to the frequency to expect changes. However, there is no point in telling the search engines to visit your site often if your changes are infrequent.

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    Crawl rate: Let Google optimize for my site (recommended)
    In webmaster tool, you can find this statement. Which mean Google have their own setting, sitemap frequency does not influence their decision. However, this is only applicable to Google search. Other search engine can be have different impact.

    Ideally leave the frequency blank, and let the search engine discover it automatically.

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    Quote Originally Posted by haleymcadams1 View Post
    You can use this tool http://sitemapdoc.com/ to change the freq.
    But how will this affect the crawl rate? Or the indexing of your site?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GekiDan View Post
    But how will this affect the crawl rate? Or the indexing of your site?
    Sorry for the super late reply. Here it is:

    A Google Webmaster Help thread asks how often does Google crawl your XML sitemap file. Google's JohnMu replied saying it depends on how often the file is updated.

    John said:

    Google's Sitemaps crawler usually reacts to the update frequency of your Sitemap files. If we find new content there every time we crawl, we may choose to crawl more frequently. If you can limit updates of the Sitemap files to daily (or whatever suits your sites best), that may help. Similarly, if you create a shared Sitemap file for these subdomains, that could help by limiting the number of requests we have to make for each subdomain -- you could let us know about the Sitemap file by mentioning it in your robots.txt file using a "Sitemap:" directive (the Sitemap file does not have to be on the same host or domain as the site itself). If we're generally crawling your sites too frequently, you can also set the crawl rate in Webmaster Tools for those sites.

    In short, John said "Google's Sitemaps crawler usually reacts to the update frequency of your Sitemap files."
    This is pretty much how Google decides to crawl your pages. If you update your pages frequently and you have a normal PageRank, Google will likely crawl your web site more often. ~http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022057.html

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