Google News ranking factors, 2003 patent revealed

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Via WebProNews by Chris Crum A patent application by Google "Systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles" was Granted on August 18, 2009. The patent was originally filed about 6 years ago on "September 16, 2003". Interesting analysis in human readable language at Seo By The Sea by ...

Secrets of Google News…What I learnt the hard way!

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Just now I noticed an interesting post from seroundtable on my feed-reader and it immediately caught my attention. Nice to hear things directly from the horses mouth, most of them are what I assumed. searchengineland also posted some comments on this issue. Having an image next to your article improves your ...

SEO and news.google.com - Run your own news website

Friday, March 7th, 2008

As a relatively new news publisher accepted into the Google News Search, I am exploring/testing various ways to rank better in the Google News Search. When I first started, I faced many problems like the MTU issue, but since there was(and still is) a lack of online resources and blogs ...

Google works in mysterious ways - Stops Crawling

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

I am running the website thaindian.com which on September of 2007 finally(after 3 attempts) got approved as a Google news search source. Since then we have seen a steady increase in traffic at the portal. We partnered with a news agency for latest Indian news also and they have been ...