Comments on: Using Google News to drive traffic to your site http://www.copress.org/2009/11/19/using-google-news-to-drive-traffic-to-your-site/ Building a Better Technical Ecosystem for Student News Organizations Mon, 10 May 2010 13:35:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Anand Srinivasanhttp://www.copress.org/2009/11/19/using-google-news-to-drive-traffic-to-your-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2443 Anand Srinivasan Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:01:24 +0000 http://www.copress.org/?p=3147#comment-2443 Wow..What do they even mean by "Are you a representative of the news provider for the content you are suggesting"?Does it mean "Are you the owner of the website?" Wow..What do they even mean by “Are you a representative of the news provider for the content you are suggesting”?

Does it mean “Are you the owner of the website?”

]]> By: Wim Mulderhttp://www.copress.org/2009/11/19/using-google-news-to-drive-traffic-to-your-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2402 Wim Mulder Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:03:47 +0000 http://www.copress.org/?p=3147#comment-2402 Will is right, this is all that I've been using on our website and it works fine without the three digit number. I haven't implemented a Google News sitemap into our site yet, but will definitely take a look at that. Perhaps that will speed up indexing even more. Will is right, this is all that I’ve been using on our website and it works fine without the three digit number. I haven’t implemented a Google News sitemap into our site yet, but will definitely take a look at that. Perhaps that will speed up indexing even more.

]]> By: How to break news the right way | CoPresshttp://www.copress.org/2009/11/19/using-google-news-to-drive-traffic-to-your-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2397 How to break news the right way | CoPress Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:16:07 +0000 http://www.copress.org/?p=3147#comment-2397 [...] Will Davis: @Michael- The date in the URL should be enough. That’s all most papers use. [...] [...] Will Davis: @Michael- The date in the URL should be enough. That’s all most papers use. [...]

]]> By: Will Davishttp://www.copress.org/2009/11/19/using-google-news-to-drive-traffic-to-your-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2395 Will Davis Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:10:14 +0000 http://www.copress.org/?p=3147#comment-2395 @Michael- The date in the URL should be enough. That's all most papers use. @Michael-
The date in the URL should be enough. That’s all most papers use.

]]> By: Gabe Steinhttp://www.copress.org/2009/11/19/using-google-news-to-drive-traffic-to-your-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2388 Gabe Stein Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:45:23 +0000 http://www.copress.org/?p=3147#comment-2388 FYI - the 3-digit url requirement is lifted if you use an XML Google News Sitemap. Just checked their rules. FYI – the 3-digit url requirement is lifted if you use an XML Google News Sitemap. Just checked their rules.

]]> By: Michael Clarkhttp://www.copress.org/2009/11/19/using-google-news-to-drive-traffic-to-your-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2379 Michael Clark Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:35:04 +0000 http://www.copress.org/?p=3147#comment-2379 An article on my current blog is: http://www.showbizradio.net/2009/11/23/review-sig-show-boat/ . To be included in Google News, I'd need an id # (of at least 3 digits) in the URL. Something like: http://www.showbizradio.net/4350/review-sig-show-boat/ . I could probably write a script to generate the rewrite rules automagically, then all of my old links would still work. Maybe that will be a project for my December downtime. An article on my current blog is: http://www.showbizradio.net/2009/11/23/review-sig-show-boat/ . To be included in Google News, I’d need an id # (of at least 3 digits) in the URL. Something like: http://www.showbizradio.net/4350/review-sig-show-boat/ . I could probably write a script to generate the rewrite rules automagically, then all of my old links would still work. Maybe that will be a project for my December downtime.

]]> By: Wim Mulderhttp://www.copress.org/2009/11/19/using-google-news-to-drive-traffic-to-your-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2366 Wim Mulder Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:07:47 +0000 http://www.copress.org/?p=3147#comment-2366 I am not sure how exactly you would go about rewriting URLs inside posts (I assume this is what you are talking about?). As long as your URLs are unique and refer to only one article at a time though, you should be OK. On the website that I added to Google News we are using a structure like this:root url/year/month/day/title/This has been working out fine so far, the indexing is quick and accurate. I am not sure how exactly you would go about rewriting URLs inside posts (I assume this is what you are talking about?). As long as your URLs are unique and refer to only one article at a time though, you should be OK. On the website that I added to Google News we are using a structure like this:

root url/year/month/day/title/

This has been working out fine so far, the indexing is quick and accurate.

]]> By: Michael Clarkhttp://www.copress.org/2009/11/19/using-google-news-to-drive-traffic-to-your-site/comment-page-1/#comment-2365 Michael Clark Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:08:40 +0000 http://www.copress.org/?p=3147#comment-2365 I'd love to have my theater news site added to Google News, but the really annoying thing standing in my way is the requirement of the 3+ digit article number. Yes, it can easily be added in the Permalinks settings, but for an established blog, that means hundreds or thousands of dead links. Any suggestions on how to gracefully deal with this? The set of rewrite commands for my news blog (1,179 posts right now) would be huge. I’d love to have my theater news site added to Google News, but the really annoying thing standing in my way is the requirement of the 3+ digit article number. Yes, it can easily be added in the Permalinks settings, but for an established blog, that means hundreds or thousands of dead links. Any suggestions on how to gracefully deal with this? The set of rewrite commands for my news blog (1,179 posts right now) would be huge.

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