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We are not accepting sites where all articles are produced by one
individual. We are looking for sources with current news written by a
staff of reporters.
Which is fair enough, I guess.
The answers to your questions are on the Google news page. Scroll to the bottom and click on the link that says "about".
That entire page is all about the news page and how they get their news, etc.
In fact, most questions about search engines can be answered in this manner. Just look for the "about" link at the bottom of the page.
I have read that and I've sent several emails in the past as they direct but I've gotten no reply. I just sent another and at least I got an auto response acknowledging the email this time.
There's a local TV station with a website where they publish the text of their newscasts. (As stories, etc...)
Unfortunately they're generally regarded as borderline incompitent. (They are the lowest rated news -- even below the local FOX affiliate)
(The station is in NY State -- not the city, but elsewhere)
I finally said enough when I found them headlined for the Utah-based Elizabeth Smart case.
The news piece size: 2 paragraphs, and by the other accounts captured by Google news -- wrong. (She wasn't found in 'poor' health, every report I saw listed her in 'good' health.)
Moral of the story: Be careful what you wish for.
Please mail your ideas for news sources to news-feedback@google.com.
That's all you can do. The news crawler is like freshbot. The newsbot reads your headlines (not your title tag, your headline) and saves it as a keyword phrase. The algo is set to drop you after, I think, 72 hours. I can't remember anymore.
I know because I used to work at a semi-major news outlet and used to sneak in a good keyword phrase every once in awhile, and I used to count how long it would pop up in the serps.
What it boils down to is you have to submit it like G says then walk away.
But I know how you feel and can sympathize. G can sometimes leave you feeling like Charlie the Tuna ("We don't want tuna with great taste, we want tuna that tastes great.")
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The newsbot reads your headlines (not your title tag, your headline)
Martinibuster, how is the headline identified? Is that the H1 tag?
My suggestion is that you do searches on Google, and when you see a news item pop up in the results, to click on the link and study the news page, try to figure out WHY a particular page is there.
study the news page, try to figure out WHY a particular page is there
That's a good idea, we'll do that and structure our pages as needed. We still have the problem with getting newsbot (or whatever it's name is) to visit. Well, we'll do as you suggest and continue to bring our sites to the attention to google through email periodicly. Unless someone else has a better idea.
Having said that, there are other good reasons to have RSS feeds.
