DNN Site Map gives all pages the same priority
Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife Out of the box, DotNetNuke provides a method of programatically creating a search-engine friendly XML sitemap for easy website submissions to the likes of Google , Yahoo and others that accept that format. This is one of the first things to do in your quest for SEO . What it doesn't do, is accurately give a priority to pages. A priority is used by webmasters to set a level of imporance to a webpage. These numbers range from 0.0 to 1.0. All DotNetNuke sites prior to 5 assign a default value of 0.9 to all pages. Google, and others don't like the fact that all your pages have the same priority, which will likely cause them not to index your site. After doing a bit of research, I found a quick hack in the DotNetNuke forums , that assigns priorities based on page placement in your menu. 1 to your home page , 0.9 to all other first level pages, 0.8 to second level pages, and so on. Just recently I've found another approach outlined ...