This article should begin by answering the question, “why want to get listed on Google news at all?”

There are many advantages to getting listed on Google News.

The obvious ones are traffic and inbound links. The less obvious but equally important ones are:

(a) Credibility: Google News indexes articles from only those sites that it considers informative and reliable. So if your article on your domain comes up in Google News, it fortifies your position as the expert in the field.

(b) Quicker indexing of your website: once your site has gotten into Google News’ radar, it is definitely crawled once a day, at least, or, depending on how many articles you post and how frequently, even twice to thrice per day. So users even on Google organic search (Google Web Search) see fresher content of your website delivered regularly.

So how do we get listed on Google News?

1. Create a separate section on your website for news. It could be www.interactivebees.com/news/ Or it could be http://news.interactivebees.com.

2. On this section of your website, create an overview page that links to inner pages of complete articles.

3. Each article needs to include the name of its author. And there needs to be multiple authors for your site to be considered a news portal (otherwise it would end up more like a blog than like a news site). The news section also needs to have a page listing names of all the authors complete with a small bio.

4. Post news articles as frequently as possible. One article a day is must. But preferred frequency would be two to three articles daily!

5. Article URL’s should seem static and have at least three unique digits.

For example, the Google news crawler will not crawl articles with the following URLs:

www.interactivebees.com/news/article13.html

www. interactivebees.com/getting-indexed-by-google-news.html

It can crawl these pages:

www. interactivebees.com/news/20112005/article.html

www. interactivebees.com/news/getting-indexed-by-google-news/23467.html

6. Your article name will also be the title of your page (as on this blog). Also Articles must have H1/H2-tags.

7. The content of your article has to be unique! Even if you are quoting from somewhere, make sure you cite the reference so the article doesn’t look plagiarised. If you can’t make it through Copyscape, you can never make it through Google News!

8. Articles can’t be too small. Articles with less than 200 characters might not get indexed.

9. And finally, submit the news section of your website to:

http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/request.py?contact_type=recommend&submit=Continue

Or send an e-mail to source-suggestions@google.com

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