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Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?

December 1, 2009

In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article.
Google is using words like “more flexible,” “easier to submit,” “more control” and even “exciting” to describe the new format and transition period. That may be getting carried away but the [...]

Google News Optimization Tips

September 3, 2009

This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. I pulled out some of the more useful tips, combining information from some of the slides with additional details provided by Google’s Maile Ohye.
Article Ranking Factors within a Story Cluster
While there [...]

Google News Now Recrawling Updated Articles

August 20, 2009

This week Search Engine Roundtable highlighted a Google News Help thread in which Google confirmed that it is now able to recrawl articles that have been updated within a “short period of time” of the original publishing.
Google employee “Inbal” later provided a more specific time window, indicating “the rate at which we recrawl may vary, [...]

Google News Wants Title Tags to Match Headlines?

May 22, 2009

In looking over a post on the Google News blog from a few months ago on ways to help Google News better crawl your site, this tip in particular caught my eye:
* Article Titles in Google News
In order for Google News to crawl the correct titles for your articles, make sure the title you want [...]