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{"id":1034,"date":"2011-07-28T09:15:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2011-07-28T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:15:10","slug":"will-i-be-penalized-if-my-urls-all-have-the-same-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/will-i-be-penalized-if-my-urls-all-have-the-same-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Will I be penalized if my URLs all have the same priority?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JfOk0gjNE5Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>AndyPTG from Boston asks, &#8220;Will I be penalized for having every file in my XML sitemap listed with the same priority? Google Webmaster Tools give me a warning on that. But at the same time the priority field is optional&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I definitely don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll be penalized. If you give all of those files the same priority then we\u2019ll just try to sort of which ones we think are the most important on our own. So I definitely wouldn&#8217;t worry about having the list of priority for every single one. It\u2018s not like we are going to having some scoring penalty or anything like that. It\u2019s totally fine and totally optional. If you do have some information that you use to put under priority that\u2019s great but it\u2019s not required and it won\u2019t get you into trouble if you do or don\u2019t have it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AndyPTG from Boston asks, &#8220;Will I be penalized for having every file in my XML sitemap listed with the same priority? Google Webmaster Tools give me a warning on that. But at the same time the priority field is optional&#8221; But I definitely don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll be penalized. If you give all of those files [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattcutts-video-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}