Eight Ways to Help Google News Better Crawl Your Site

by Abe Epton - the Google News Blog

Warning: For newspapers and news publisher who don't want Google News to include their content, just reverse this recommentaions - so they can work your way ...

- Keep the article body clean
- Make sure article URLs are permanent and unique
- Take advantage of stock tickers in Sitemaps
- Check your encoding
- Make your article publication dates explicit
- Keep original content separate from press releases
- Format your images properly
- Article Titles and Tagline

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