Hi,

I've updated the HTML and Meta Descriptions across my site, and regenerated the XML sitemap. Looking through the output of the XML sitemap, the Last Modified date is from over a month ago, somtimes longer however the HTML page titles and Meta Descriptions are updated sitewide as of today. I'm using the Page Titles module.

Search engines need to be notified when any part of the code is updated, this includes the HTML Title and Meta Descriptions.

This is bad from an SEO perspective as it won't encourage search engines to come back and update their cache of each of the pages. So I will have to either (i) manually update the Last Modified date to today - which is a bit of a hack or (ii) Remove the XML Sitemap all together and rely on search engines to naturally visit the site and realise the content has been updated.

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dave reid
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Hrm, I can't duplicate this. Any time I update a node (not even using 'Save new revision'), and then regenerate the sitemap files either using cron or the interface at admin/settings/xmlsitemap, the last modified dates are correct. Are you doing the latter step of regenerating the files?

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smartango commented

I do not see the new code ... it is something related to http://drupal.org/node/937352 ?

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smartango commented

Also (this is in 1.2 release) sitemap date is setted to node's changed field not to time() in sitemap, so no, sitemap loc is not update if conted date is not changed.