Kevin
I see you have http://www.tnetweather.com/latlong-convert.php flagged as “always”, I guess it’s true that page does change each time it’s accessed (it calculates based on user input data), but how is that type of change relevant in sitemap?
Frequency is supposed to indicate how often the page contents change.
Some pages like contact info, change seldom.
Some pages like pages that output weather data, change almost every time you look at them.
Technically the latlong-convert page is dynamic so it changes every time it is used. They goal was to get it listed as a site link, but that has never happened. I’ve flipped it around a couple times with no results.
The mystery is how and what gets those generated. I’ve had some sites where I can do it on a regular basis like tnetweather site. There are a ton of sites which have a link to tnetweather on them (like more than 800). I’ve had other sites where nothing every seems to work even though they have as good or better sitemaps.
They key appears to be when a site is relevant, ie seen as a relevant site to others. Kinda of hard to fake that. either you have a lot of quality sites linking to your site as a relevant site or not.
One example is a site I created for a Fishing guide in California Clear Lake area. No relevant sites link to his mainly because most of the bait shops that have websites no longer control or know how to update them (kinda funny actually) and others won’t or will only after they have known him for a couple years. Tough business to crack into. so his site which is indexed, has a decent sitemap etc… has no real ranking on Google and traffic to it is slow.
I ended up creating him a brochure which an 8-1/2" piece of paper cut into 1/3rd strips with printing on both sites. It is a flyer of sorts which he has gone around town and put in all the tourist info bins at all the hotels, motels, bait shops etc… that seems to have started to work and is starting to get people to look directly at his site for more info.
Having a good sitemap helps, but without the links to go with it, nothing happens, and it is hard to get into search keyword maps until you are either relevant or pay for things like adwords.
Looks like google finally gave me some sitelinks, but im wondering why there not showing when you google snoqualmie weather? Any ideas?
Did some readings about sitelinks. If your not #1 in your search, they wont show which I figured that. I’m normally #1 when searching for Snoqualmie Weather, but with the recent floods here, our local transportation dept. bumped me down to #2. Hopefully in the next few days I’ll see if my sitelinks will show up once I get #1 back again.
They added a few sitelinks for my site, but they don’t appear like other sites do. All of the links are directly under my description going horizontal. Pic attached. Why do they do this is my question. Thanks.
3 years later, Google, Yahoo and Bing gave my site a real sitelinks for my site. Seems like they all updated at the same time.
Ottimi suggerimenti
They also have a php site map program for $19.95 I think a a good deal. https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/standalone-google-sitemap-generator.html I have it on my website https://scottsworld.info and it works great on my new server [url]https://www.bluehost.com//url] could not get it to work on Hostmonster and along with other isuess with Hostmonster moved to Bluehost. When I searched google for best website hosting Blueshost came up #1. Hosted in the UK but I can live with that. The standalone site map can be ran as a chron event so it can be set to run automatically when you want, I set it up to run the 1st and 15th of the month. but have been manually generating it as I have been making a lot of changes with moving to the new host.
Ironically Hostmonster is a sister company of BlueHost, which was acquired by mega hosting company EIG some years ago.
Hostgater was #2 in my google search, also on that list, a bit suspicious that Dreamhost was the only hosting they recommended as being non EIG… I am signed up for 3 years any way.
What irritates me about the EIG business model is that they don’t acknowledge ownership of their hosts. Users sign up for e.g. A Small Orange thinking it is still a small host offering “Homegrown Website Hosting” when in reality it was assimilated by the EIG Borg 10 years ago.