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Rule · Sitemaps

priority and changefreq present

SEO-SITEMAP-05C4 Informational· w0informational

Class
C4 Informational
Weight
0
Severity on fail
info
Applies to
Google and Bing

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Scope and evidence

Evaluated on each sitemap file. The book marks this requirement EXPLICITLY DISMISSED.

Never a failure, never a recommendation to add them.

Observations

Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.

  • present

    For your information: Google ignores <priority> and <changefreq>, and Bing says they do not influence how content is crawled or ranked.

Sources, quoted

These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.