Comments on: SEO for Google News – Ranking Factors and Recommendations https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-for-google-news-ranking-factors-and-recommendations.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Canada's Search and Social Media Authority Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:14:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Laurence 'GreenReaper' Parry https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-for-google-news-ranking-factors-and-recommendations.html/comment-page-1#comment-87717 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:14:30 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=6026#comment-87717 For the record, we have clickable thumbnails that are indexed by Google News. However, they are also of a reasonable size (>100px each dimension).

]]> By: Luke Rickards https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-for-google-news-ranking-factors-and-recommendations.html/comment-page-1#comment-69180 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:50:34 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=6026#comment-69180 “Note that these recommendations come from my point of view as an SEO specialist, and I reckon they would benefit from a journalistic perspective.” Good point. It’s easy to get too focused on the technical aspects and forget that a good percentage of SEO happens indirectly as a vote from ‘the people’. No doubt good journalists always keep in mind the viral potential of article content, and if the story is remarkable, links – and therefore ranking – will follow effortlessly.

Luke
SEO Services Adelaide

]]> By: Barry Adams https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-for-google-news-ranking-factors-and-recommendations.html/comment-page-1#comment-23224 Mon, 31 May 2010 14:36:38 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=6026#comment-23224 @Matt, from what I have seen Google used to take the headline from the H1 or H2 tag it deemed most likely to be the actual article headline. The recently adopted expanded scheme for the Google News sitemap seems to have changed this, and Google now appears to take the headline from the title as mentioned in the sitemap.

I’ve worked on a news site where Google picked the wrong headline (taking the [badly coded] search box text as the headline, which was featured just above the article text in the HTML code), but that problem has vanished with the adoption of the new expanded News sitemap scheme.

]]> By: Matt https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-for-google-news-ranking-factors-and-recommendations.html/comment-page-1#comment-22978 Sat, 22 May 2010 16:28:07 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=6026#comment-22978 How does Google choose the title? Does it pick the news headline tagged H1, or does it take the keyword rich title created for ranking?

Uncertainty on this is one reason why I have not dared tackle Google news so far!

]]> By: Michal Blahut https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-for-google-news-ranking-factors-and-recommendations.html/comment-page-1#comment-22874 Wed, 19 May 2010 08:40:28 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=6026#comment-22874 Good SEO PR is NOT press release for SEO purposes. That’s the point.
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]]> By: Barry Adams https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-for-google-news-ranking-factors-and-recommendations.html/comment-page-1#comment-22827 Tue, 18 May 2010 16:22:19 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=6026#comment-22827 @Teknoloji: personally I’m not a big fan of press releases for SEO purposes – except when you already have established contacts in the right places to get your press releases published on the right sites (with followed links).

If you don’t have the insider contacts, PR SEO is a very hit & miss process. I’d prefer to spend my time and effort building solid relationships with other webmasters to get quality in-bound links.

]]> By: Teknoloji https://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/seo-for-google-news-ranking-factors-and-recommendations.html/comment-page-1#comment-22819 Tue, 18 May 2010 13:18:06 +0000 https://www.searchenginepeople.com/?p=6026#comment-22819 What are your thoughts on a more PR based approach to SEO?

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