Many publishers that have signed up to Google News, probably now the world’s largest news aggregator, have instantly (ie results within a day) doubled their traffic. We are not talking about traffic off a low base either. That is how important Google news is as a traffic provider to organisations. So, it’s with interest that I read on the Google News blog about some of the theories surrounding ranking on Google news. Hardly a revelation, but interesting none-the-less:
- Having an image next to your article improves your ranking MYTH
- Updating an article after posting it will create problems with Google News TRUE
- Timing the publication of your article improves your article ranking MYTH
- Articles that are just images or video won’t be included TRUE
- Publishing a sitemap helps my rankings MYTH
- Redesigning my site may affect my coverage in Google News TRUE
- If I put AdSense on my site, my article rankings will improve MYTH
More explanation here. Thanks to Gal Arav of newsflashr.com for pointing me to this.
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