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Yoast Post Sitemap not sorted descending by modified time #13923
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Hi @BradFD , this should not make a difference, SEO-wise. Why would you like to see this? |
Sorting by modified date with most recent date first ensures optimized use of crawl budget. Additionally, in the "multiple URL" example shown in the specification document at https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#sitemapXMLExample the example shows entries appearing sorted by the most recent modified date to the oldest modified date. Logically, this is also the way to do. |
@jono-alderson I contacted you about this yesterday, would you mind having a look and seeing if this is a valid feature request? |
I don't think that the ordering is particularly important as far as Google is concerned (unless you have an enormous site, crawl budget for XML sitemaps shouldn't be a concern - they're not crawled/consumed/processed in the same way/system as conventional URLS/pages). However, generally, I think that sorting by Buuuut, I think this needs some scoping. I'm thinking it through, and there are some grey areas. E.g.,
More generally, If I make a minor alteration to a legacy post, should that catapult it to the top of the list? That feels awkward. Up for discussion! |
Hi |
I also think is a good feature. Any update yet? |
This is a must-have feature for us. Any update on this? |
Google uses the first few elements as the "site links" under the main page search result. So, yes it absolutely matters what order the posts are in. Also, logically, the most recently modified post should be at the top of the list, since it has the most recent content, and should be indexed first, not last. |
There's no relationship between XML sitemaps (their order, or their contents), and the choice/presentation of site links - other than facilitating their discovery. However, I do still agree that ordering by last modified (with some exceptions / special cases for the homepage, etc) is a better default; I'll make sure this is still on our radar internally. |
Please inform the customer of conversation # 1054950 when this conversation has been closed. |
@Djennez any news on this feature request? |
we are interested too |
We need this Feature Please! |
Please inform the customer of conversation # 1103732 when this conversation has been closed. |
+1 |
Please give us a description of what happened.
Post sitemaps are sorted oldest modified date first then newest when it should be the reverse with newest modified posts appearing first in the post sitemap. This is with current 12.5 plugin
I have checked multiple sites under my control and they all show this sorting behavior in the post sitemap. See below
Current Sorting of Post Sitemap Example:
4 Old Post (ex 2015 modified date)
and so on to: 1000. New Post (modified yesterday)
Please describe what you expected to happen and why.
I expect most recently modified posts to appear first in the sitemap and descend from there.
Expected Sorting of Post Sitemap Example.
How can we reproduce this behavior?
Technical info
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