how do you get approved by GOOGLE NEWS? just got rejected

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SimonSez

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below is the response they sent me..

Hi,

Thank you for your note. We reviewed your site and are unable to include
it in Google News at this time. We currently only include articles from
sources that could be considered organizations, generally characterized by
named multiple writers and editors directly associated with a site. When
we reviewed your site we weren't able to find this evidence of an
organization.

Additionally, we don't include sites that don't have a formal
editorial-review process for submitted content. We appreciate your taking
the time to contact us, and we'll log your site for consideration should
our requirements change.

Thanks for your interest in Google News.

Regards,
The Google Team
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This is what they sent me, but I have a ton of original content on my sports news site, the thing that baffles me is they claim I need all that stuff but if you type in google news a search term many times you get some cheap bloggers site with no Author or writers and they just aggregate news...but yet I cannot get approved?

I typed in a search on google news looking at any info on david archuleta and this site was on the top http://www.fashion.ie/aggregator/go...s-album-top-amazon-holiday-chart-duet-charice ,

http://www.fashion.ie/ has NO WRITERS named at all, and they have no staff section that I can think of but this blog is basically an aggregator site for fashion and entertainment news. but yet they get approved by google news while my site gets rejected. I have 3 writers who help post up stories, and I get articles submitted by readers of my blog and my newsfeed is associated press articles, just like espn, and other sites have.


Does anyone know how to get approved?
 
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Nice try to submit to google news buddy ;) but this will never work for you or your site is really pure genius. To see your article in google news, you need to submit press releases to prweb, prlog, ... google will scrape them into Google News ;)

Hope this help.
 
youngguy said:
Nice try to submit to google news buddy ;) but this will never work for you or your site is really pure genius. To see your article in google news, you need to submit press releases to prweb, prlog, ... google will scrape them into Google News ;)

Hope this help.
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thanks, so if I submit to prweb or prlog I have a shot to get in google news? but do you think google will block me from google news since i got rejected?

but how does that work out? do you have a link? is their a thread on here about how to get on google news?

thanks in advance.
 
It's not a thread or sites talking about this ;) I can't tell you more, just do it, you will see the result.
 
Hey Simon

I managed to get accepted onto Google News recently, although I wasn't expecting to after I'd read about a lot of people getting rejections. The site had only been live for a few days and only had half a dozen articles.

Heres a few things that may help:

  • Make sure the site looks good and the articles are well written, and have 400+ words
  • Add in somethings you might find on a news site, polls, news tickers, social bookmarking etc
  • Have a contact us page with a contact form
  • Have an about us page with a link to each member of the team and an email address or contact form for them. I didn't have bio's or lots of information just name and position and a contact link.
  • Have at least one person marked as Editor in Chief and one Editor
  • If its only you then just pretend you have more, at least 2, create seperate email addresses for each so it all looks legit.
  • I also noted that I would be using News sitemaps, which might make Google think you've done your research.
By the sounds of it you've got a good site so you just need to resubmit and make out your a bit bigger then you actually are :)

Good luck
 
youngguy said:
It's not a thread or sites talking about this ;) I can't tell you more, just do it, you will see the result.
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ok but i see it cost money?:yield: 200 bucks????? to send in article on prweb? is this worth it seriously im almost dead broke I spent money on my rent this week and only got enough money for food and cell phone bills.
 
chrisatuni said:
Hey Simon

I managed to get accepted onto Google News recently, although I wasn't expecting to after I'd read about a lot of people getting rejections. The site had only been live for a few days and only had half a dozen articles.

Heres a few things that may help:

  • Make sure the site looks good and the articles are well written, and have 400+ words
  • Add in somethings you might find on a news site, polls, news tickers, social bookmarking etc
  • Have a contact us page with a contact form
  • Have an about us page with a link to each member of the team and an email address or contact form for them. I didn't have bio's or lots of information just name and position and a contact link.
  • Have at least one person marked as Editor in Chief and one Editor
  • If its only you then just pretend you have more, at least 2, create seperate email addresses for each so it all looks legit.
  • I also noted that I would be using News sitemaps, which might make Google think you've done your research.
By the sounds of it you've got a good site so you just need to resubmit and make out your a bit bigger then you actually are :)

Good luck
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good info man, but im still wondering how that one site fashion.ie got on google news when it has no authors, staff writers or contact info.
 
chrisatuni said:
Could just depend on who reviews your page, some maybe fussier then others
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so how many articles did you have on your site? you said you just launched it a few days ago. My site has been up for almost 2 years :( and I coudlnt get approved.
 
1. Ensure your URLs are generating sequential three digit numbers for postings - ie yoursite.com/news/001news.html. Make sure you're generating a good sitemap [sitemap.xml]
2. As mentioned above, have a specific editorial page detailing editor, writing staff and emails.
3. Ensure posts have a publishing date. It also helps if you have a 'last modified date' in there too.
4. You should be having a couple of posts of unique content every day. Not scraped, unique, but you can cite on other site's reviews and content.
5. Try and try again - but leave a couple of months in between applications. Make sure that you're in good shape before you apply.
6. No-one knows except Google for sure, but it is said that there are only about 6k sites worldwide in the English section of Google News. Expect traffic to triple if you get in there.

Bonus - use Google Search on your site.
Bonus - use RDF on your site.
Bonus - use a Drupal install as your CMS and add the Open Calais semantic logging system. This will auto-magically generate new pages of content grouping similar posts together - this'll start to prepare you for your application to Google News as it is rocket fuel for Page Rank and for people finding you AKA SEO.

Good Luck.
 
aliens said:
1. Ensure your URLs are generating sequential three digit numbers for postings - ie yoursite.com/news/001news.html. Make sure you're generating a good sitemap [sitemap.xml]
2. As mentioned above, have a specific editorial page detailing editor, writing staff and emails.
3. Ensure posts have a publishing date. It also helps if you have a 'last modified date' in there too.
4. You should be having a couple of posts of unique content every day. Not scraped, unique, but you can cite on other site's reviews and content.
5. Try and try again - but leave a couple of months in between applications. Make sure that you're in good shape before you apply.
6. No-one knows except Google for sure, but it is said that there are only about 6k sites worldwide in the English section of Google News. Expect traffic to triple if you get in there.

Bonus - use Google Search on your site.
Bonus - use RDF on your site.
Bonus - use a Drupal install as your CMS and add the Open Calais semantic logging system. This will auto-magically generate new pages of content grouping similar posts together - this'll start to prepare you for your application to Google News as it is rocket fuel for Page Rank and for people finding you AKA SEO.

Good Luck.
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thanks im new to all these terms, all I do is write up articles and news stuff that interests me such as sports.

what is RDF? and what is Drupal CMS?

I have no clue.
 
I did a search and I notice some articles from pr web get posted on yahoo.news

but the thing is most of the time its an advertisement article promoting a product or something?

So could I promote my website using pr web?
 
SimonSez ;) Believe me or not, there's a ton of sites like prweb, prlog there, google is your friend, submit alot of press releases into them will make your site listed in google news. Stop asking, start doing ;) Your site will never listed if you're just asking people and never take action.

If you submitted quality pr, you will be fine with Google without being banned. Jst my 10c :D
 
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youngguy said:
SimonSez ;) Believe me or not, there's a ton of sites like prweb, prlog there, google is your friend, submit alot of press releases into them will make your site listed in google news. Stop asking, start doing ;) Your site will never listed if you're just asking people and never take action.

If you submitted quality pr, you will be fine with Google without being banned. Jst my 10c :D
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well I need to ask man cause I want to get other peoples opinion on this...also you never told me they charged I thought it was free lol.

Im just scared to invest some money only to fail and it not work out. I already invested a lot of cash and my site never even got any traffic, I was buying those Ebooks and they basically were all the same stuff.

I lost a lot of cash and im really just nervous, why should i spend the 100 or so bucks for 1 article on pr web?
 
hummm? I mean there's a ton FREE press release site out there like PRLOG check it out you want me to "google" for you too?
 
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