dhaliwal
msg:4231251 | 1:43 am on Nov 17, 2010 (gmt 0) |
good idea to tell news publishers to accept that they are syndicating lot of content. Sources like FoxNews, and many other which are using lot of content from news agencies, may see decline in ranking over time.
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SEOMike
msg:4231972 | 3:27 pm on Nov 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I wonder if these tags will be a requirement to get into Google News once they are done testing them in the wild. If citing sources could potentially decrease ranking, I don't see why any site would adopt it. It'll be interesting to see if these pass credit to a site like a link does.
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goodroi
msg:4231982 | 3:48 pm on Nov 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
sounds like it is too open for abuse. what if a content scraper steals content from ignorant webmasters and uses these new meta tags. since the real author is ignorant about seo and didnt use the new tags do they automatically lose to the scraper site who is smart enough to use the tags?
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tedster
msg:4232007 | 4:16 pm on Nov 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I'd agree with the abuse potential if this were part of the organic ranking algo - but it's confined just to Google News sites. That is a controlled, small set of all sites. Any site needs to apply and be accepted first and abusers can be dropped once they are identified.
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opmama
msg:4232411 | 4:34 pm on Nov 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Tedster, I'm new to this - how do we know they won't be using them outside of Google news?
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goodroi
msg:4232414 | 4:41 pm on Nov 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
welcome to webmasterworld opmama!
in the official announcement from the google news team it says
| That’s why we’re experimenting with two new metatags for Google News |
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based on that line it appears this is currently only for google news. if its very successful maybe the google search team will talk with the google news team.
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walrus
msg:4232472 | 6:42 pm on Nov 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
<If its very successful....>
that would be awesome, a first step towards a search version for all articles and original content.
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sminute
msg:4233835 | 10:02 pm on Nov 22, 2010 (gmt 0) |
For Wordpress users ther's a plugin doing the job :
[wordpress.org...]
(add sources (URLs) or own permalink if blank)
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