Lately I have been getting quite a collection of emails telling and asking for help about warnings that people are receiving in their Google Webmaster Tools Account (GWTA). The warnings first warning is as follows:
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.
This is an issue that comes up with the priority settings in iMap. It is quite stupid and I will be bringing out an update to solve this as soon as I can.
The second warning goes like this:
All the URLs in your Sitemap are marked as having dynamic content.
All the URLs in your Sitemap are marked as having dynamic content. Because it is difficult for search engines to crawl and index dynamic content, this may impact your site’s performance in search results. Check your Sitemap to make sure that your site information is correct.
Now, this is something which I cannot control. Dynamic content is basically a normal webpage with some fancy scripts added to it. These scripts grab certain parts of other files and place it into the main page. This causes the actual page to be built up through lots of small and separate script pages. Google doesn’t like that as it only checks the main page, which of course doesn’t fully have the whole content. Bad! This is one of downsides of iWeb which also is the reason why you can’t run sitemap-generators on your site (and get all pages linked).
Though, as the warnings above are just warnings and not errors, they can be ignored for the time being. I will get rid of the first warning by bringing out an update to iMap – but you will just have to live with the second warning. Sorry people! 