Here’s an interesting read. Daniel Meredith of Google News explains the importance behind sitemaps, quality content, and some other factors that comes into play of how your site could be included into Google News.

Although not a big fan of sitemaps, I might actually give it a go on my other site Zedomax.com this week to see if there’s any changes in traffic or SEO.

“What do we look for?” asked Meredith. Four things, he replied:
Original content
Multiple authors
Proper attribution
Response time

Once a site in in Google News, what can it do to help move its pages to the top of news search results?

Meredith’s reply? Use a sitemap. Sitemaps are XML files that describe to a search engine robot all of the content available for indexing on a website. Think of it as a giant RSS-style feed that describes everything on your website.

via ojr

Tags: daniel meredith, google, news search, quality content, reply, response time, search engine robot, traffic

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