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By: Google Fast Flip – A Cruel Joke? | AlanSpicer.com

Google Fast Flip – A Cruel Joke? | AlanSpicer.com — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:08:54 +0000

[...] News, it is generally the major source of traffic to news websites, and publishers are free to remove themselves from Google’s listings through a simple piece of [...]

By: Google Fast Flip – A Cruel Joke? « 18CARATBRASS.COM – WEIRD NEWS AND FUNNYS

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:07:50 +0000

[...] News, it is generally the major source of traffic to news websites, and publishers are free to remove themselves from Google’s listings through a simple piece of [...]

By: Google’s Fast Flip - a cruel joke on the news industry

Google’s Fast Flip - a cruel joke on the news industry — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:32:10 +0000

[...] News, it is generally the major source of traffic to news websites, and publishers are free to remove themselves from Google’s listings through a simple piece of [...]

By: "Paid content" myth sprouts more pay wall ideas | Zombie Journalism

"Paid content" myth sprouts more pay wall ideas | Zombie Journalism — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:13:16 +0000

[...] isn’t like Murdoch has the best relationship with news aggregators anyway – he’s threatening to sue Google and Yahoo for quoting and linking to his Media News sites’ content. While that’s [...]

By: Matt Wardman

Matt Wardman — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:28:29 +0000

PS The only political blog site I’m aware of that is in is Slugger.

By: Matt Wardman

Matt Wardman — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:26:57 +0000

>Thanks for that link Philip – have submitted OJB to see what happens. Notice BTW in the technical requirements they require 3 digits in your URLs (and it can’t be the year), which neither yours nor OJB meets.

As has been mentioned, if you use a news sitemap you can dodge that criteria.

I think that is perhaps easier for a clearly defined news site such as the Lichfield Blog.

Or it could be sour grapes . I’ve tried a couple of times without success.

There’s a plugin for the news sitemap (which I can’t make work), or I use a short php script here:

http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/news-sitemap.php

Matt

By: Jonathan Walker

Jonathan Walker — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:07:06 +0000

I’m probably missing something, but Google says it will remove sites people don’t want included, so why is there any talk of suing them or using robots?

http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94003

Do they refuse to remove some sites?

By: Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:20:39 +0000

So, just how do you get a site crawled by the Google News bots?

By: malcolm coles

malcolm coles — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:35:59 +0000

The Guardian have been getting away with it for years – I never understood how. In better news all round, the 3-digit requirement is no longer true IF you submit a news sitemap.

Here’s the link that explains the waiver for the 3-digit rule: http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=68323

And here’s the explanation of news sitemaps: http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=74288

There’s a plugin to generate google news sitemaps for wordpress here, although I’ve never used it myself: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-news-sitemap-generator/

By: Philip John

Philip John — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:08:22 +0000

It’s a bizarre requirement and you’re right, we don’t have it and neither do the Guardian by the looks of it.