New Content Every 2-6 Weeks?

What do news agencies do that I don't?

[lorimcdaniel0951]

I's sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find the answer anywhere, so....

If Google and other search engines only crawl/index every so often, how is it that current news items show up immediately when I search for them? At most, there's a day's delay. Is there something the news agencies are doing that I can do?

Thanks,

Lori

[annej]

It appears that higher PR sites get the fresh bot more often. That might explain it.

[ukgimp]

lorimcdaniel0951

Welcome to WebmasterWorld

The frequency of freshbot is going to be related to the level of fresh content that you add. If you add very regularly as most news sites do you will see in increased level of crawling. Related to that will be the PR of the site and is crawlability. For example a site may add news on a hourly basis but if GoogleBot cannot get to the content ("hidden" links, monster urls etc) it wont be listed or even crawled.

>>Is there something the news agencies are doing that I can do?

Adding loads of new content with good unique tiltes. They also look at the navigability of the site.

[amazed]

actually I think that in the context of google news, google has news sources identified.
And I suppose there are contracts with directories.

[ukgimp]

>>news sources identified.

I think you may be right on that one amazed, I misread a little thinking in terms of fresh listing a regular crawling patters. :)

[lorimcdaniel0951]

Thanks so much! I tested the theory that amazed presented, and to which ukgimp agreed, and this seems to be the case. I did a search of people who recently died. When I searched for "Brian Wright" on Google, the results on his *death* came up in a separate news section.

Also, in Yahoo!, the only obits appearing for Redd Stewart are in fact from news agencies. (AND, if you search for "Brian Wright" he does NOT come up, but then if you click on the News tab at the top, his obit does come up...from a news agency.)

The definitive test, IMO: I did find on the Internet two pages with Redd Stewart's death being discussed that were NOT from a news agency and did therefore NOT come up in any search: [groups.yahoo.com...] and [roughstock.com...]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!