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Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites

March 16, 2010

The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news. Google, Bing and Yahoo are all experimenting with various forms of real-time results now and making deals with Twitter, Facebook and other social sites. So how can news sites maximize their real-time search [...]

Yahoo Adds Enhanced News Results to SearchMonkey

August 31, 2009

On Friday Yahoo announced new additions to its SearchMonkey enhanced results, including options for news content. SearchMonkey allows sites to use structured data to include additional information in their Yahoo search results such as addresses and phone numbers, review scores, pricing, etc. For news sites, the publication date and a photo can be added to [...]

Yahoo News Syndication: Attribution Links Not SEO-Friendly

July 9, 2009

In my post on syndication best practices I noted that one way to reduce the likelihood that partners will outrank you for own content is to require a link back to your original on every syndicated article, for example: This article originally appeared on Example.com: [direct link to original article, ideally with the headline as [...]