News Sites

News Sites an Google

[mosley700]

I'm going to be installing a news section on a site, industry specific. I noticed that some sites use a code like:
<meta name="REVISIT-AFTER" content="7 days">
Does the G-bot do this just because you ask it to? Is there some threshhold to be achieved before you qualify for G-News? Are the sites in Google news news-only?

[korkus2000]

Googlebot doesn't care about that directive. It has its own formula for "Freshness."

[mosley700]

Does the freshness formula have to do with total content change every day?

[ciml]

My impression is that the fresh crawling is based on ODP/Yahoo inclusion and PageRank, rather than the frequency of content change.

[mosley700]

ciml, thanks. So you would need to be listed in a "news" category of Yahoo?