Does the order of the listings in your site map matter? Do pages listed at the top of the list get spidered more often?

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Neal M
Jackson MO Real Estate, Cape Girardeau Missouri Real Estate, Cape Girardeau Real Estate
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I don't think the order of urls plays a role in spider activity. I think the <priority> tag was made for that purpose. The value could be from 0 to 1 such as "0.3" or "0.7", the higher, the more authority you give to a page, telling search engines to crawl that page more often.

Also, you can tell search engines how often you update your page so they keep coming back to crawl fresh content. You can do that with either meta tags in html or a tag in your sitemap.

This is excellent information, and I am actually researching how to do this currently since I am focusing my blog on a certain topic. I add new content three times a week, but the site is only getting crawled by Google about once a week at this point.

It would help me out quite a bit if you could somewhat describe the meta tags in the html and tags in the sitemap a little more since that's information that I haven't been able to find all too easily (except in other blogs).

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Andy Scherer
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Mortgage Trainer

Go out to the google webmaster site. They have a good breakdown on what you need.

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Neal M
Jackson MO Real Estate, Cape Girardeau Missouri Real Estate, Cape Girardeau Real Estate
HouseViewOnline™ is southeast Missouri’s leading site for touring real estate online. See 100’s of properties from Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Perryville & Sikeston Missouri. Properties are displayed in photos taken by our professional photographer. We are proud to work with Realtors and real estate agents through out SE Missouri.

From what i've read, it seems you can't "order" a search engine to visit more often your url. It's more a suggestion. Meaning that if you ask the search engines to come more often and they find the site interesting, they will do that. But if you don't change the content on pages, you can ask ask them to visit once a day, but i doubt they would