Google news (beta) supply

Getting a site "google news" ready

[andyjenkins]

Hi all,

A site that I run has been approached by Google to supply news for their "Google News" service. Great I thought - but I'm having a headache trying to get the site crawled properly.

The site runs under a PostNuke CMS, and so far, Google has picked up just the one article from all of the ones listed (proof that the site is in their 'list' and can be crawled) - but since then, nothing.

Anyone have any experience with the Google News bot and getting a site appropriately 'ready'? I'd appriciate any help you guys (and gals - can't be sexist can we ;o) ) can offer.

If needed, my site is <<snip>>

Many thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

Regards
Andy

[edited by: vitaplease at 5:11 pm (utc) on Nov. 28, 2004]
[edit reason] no specifics please [/edit]

[submitx]

Try using RSS format. Also, if your content is dynamically generated maybe they are having trouble indexing it. Too bad the editors snipped your URL, but you can PM it to me if you like and I'll take a look.

[andyjenkins]

Hi submitx - you got a PM ;o)

Regarding my sites ability (or should that in INability) to feed the googlebot with news.

If you look at Google News and do a search for my site (as in the PM) you'll see one story (about a UK ISP called Gio Internet). I can find no reason why this story was picked up and others not.

Any help you can give is most appriciated.