Google News Help Feed

Do you have a news sitemap? If not, it would be cool if you could submit one in webmaster tools.

If you can't for some reason create one, let me know and i create a temporary one for you which you can submit.

Also, please try to mess a bit with crawl rate in webmaster tools. It might be that the Crawler doesn't visits your site as often as before. You could set the crawl rate a bit higher.

If these things won't help, you will have to wait for a Googler to look into your issue.

Have a nice day

Dear methode:

I appreciate your feedback greatly, thanks bud!

Yes, I do have a news sitemap that I submitted since November 2008  is and has been working perfect and even downloaded by Google yesterday. Will mess with the crawl rate again, ty.

 

You have a nice day too, my friend.

Hi methode:

I miss your feedback, bud! checkout my site: www.eritreadaily.net I would appreciate it if you would get some feedback from Google Folks in this matter. ty.

 

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dear methode, never, never bro. Still hope you would be able to contact Googlee folks, please. Thanks.

Greatful for your prompt response.

 

Nice Day.

methode, you are great! Appreciate your efforts in this matter greatly. God bless you.

Have a nice weekend, my friend

In webmaster tools>>diagnostics, is anything interesting?

Can you tell me where's your sitemap located?

In webmaster tools, is any error reported on the detailed sitemap page?

I wouldn't really want to bother the Google guys if it's something too simple and we can also fix.

mithode, diagnostic is unremarkable: no error reporting, sitemap downloaded by Google 10 July 2009, status OK. I checked and rechecke everything, every thing is AOK. Even my Google Analytic is functioning perfect. sitemap is located in the index directory: www.eritreadaily.net/. My friend, am not IT savvy as you are but I know I met all the technical requirements of Google. I hope that the location of the sitemap is right, ty. Some thing is blocking all of a sudden the crawling and picking up of my news items after long years of functioning. I am stupified!

Great thanks

Hi methode, here the location of my sitemap: www.eritreadaily.net/public_html/sitemap.xml

 

Again, do you have a News sitemap[1]?

Here: http://devoracles.com/erit_gn_sm.xml

Download it and save it on your webserver. Then submit it in webmaster tools just like you'd submit a normal sitemap, but pay particular attention to submit it as "News". This can be selected after you pressed the "Add sitemap" button from a drop-down menu.

If this solves your issue momentarily, you will have to code a sitemap generator which is capable of generating a news sitemap.

Another publisher already hired me to create one, but that's only capable to create a news sitemap from an RSS feed, since you have no RSS feed, you will have to find another way.

Hi methode, I already have a website map. Now, in order to add a News site map, do I have to delete the website or is it possible to add the News site map separately. Please help. ty

 

See the help entry I linked to below

methode, won't allow a second site map cause it prompts me to enter a website url but won't accept it cause it is already indexed, Hope you get in touch with Googlefolks about this issue tomorrow and await anxiously for your valuable feedback, ty

 

Nice evening

Hi methode: I was able to submit the News sitemap you created successfully this morning and Google status is OK. But the news items were not picked by Googlebot or may be the site not crawled, Thanks for creating the News citemap but I would appreciate it if you would get Google folks to look into this issue. Great thanks.

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methode, you there! miss your feedback, bro! Don't let me down, need your professional and valuable feedbacks now than ever, ty.

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Also, I can't check out your news sitemap on that location because it's protected by your login.

One more thing and then I report the thread to the Google engineers. Please follow the URL you posted above then click on the sitemap's filename you have recently added and which should be a news sitemap. A table will show up which several details of the news sitemap. Which is interesting for us is the "Type" and "Format" data. Please tell me these two values.

methode, the one site has the format: Web, the other which you created and is accepted by Goog has the forma: News

 

Type too: website and News bro, ty

 

We will still have to figure out how to create for you an always up-to-date news sitemap.

methode, thanks bro. That would be great with the always up-to-date sitemap, God help you, buddy. Will check with you over the day. ty again for your help

 

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methode, my friend, that is exactly how I responded too! Yes, that didn't cause issue for years, why now? Any way, were able to get response from Google folks yet? Thanks for hangign on. Hope to hear from you again. ty

 

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Please, do not expect a 2-minute-fix. They have loads of work.

inbal, do you include articles from News troves? Eritrea Daily is a news trove: It posts news articles reported by various new agencies, organizations and others, ty

 

 

Regards,

edaily

Dear inbal, I would have hoped Google would warn me about the danger of not being included in its Google News and necessary remedy would have be taken before the action taken so abruptly. Moreover, wish I knew if News Trove such as my site would met the requirement of organization. ty hope to hear from you how long the exclusion would last, ty.

Best regards,

Brin for edaily

Just think with your visitor's mind: they want to know more about the news source they read articles from, providing the missing information makes your site to be a more credible news source.

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Hi methode, finally good news. Just above your latest entry, Inbla posted an answer where he accepted the additional info about my site and decided "we'll be re-adding it into our index for Google News." I appreciate all your efforts in this matter and hopefully you will find a way to turn the temporary News sitemap you created for me into permanent one.

 

Have a great day my friend

Brin

Yes, I saw that post, I responded to add a bit more info. Note that if the information is not present on your website someone could report it again and not necessarily Inbal will process the report thus your site might get removed again. Please, do provide the info and form of working contact on your website

As for creating a permanent news sitemap, it's not necessarily a need. If the system you were using till now worked, it will in the future as well. The temporary sitemap was created to test whether the crawler has issues identifying individual articles, nothing more. When I have time, i will create a tool like the one you are using to generate the web sitemap, though. 

methode, thanks again. There was already contact link, and Mission statement on our site. Any way I have now included the necessary infos on the site. Yea, you are right, never needed News sitemap for so long and I am about to remove the test sitemap. Appreciate all efforts and concerns, God bless you! Amen

 

Best regards,

Brin

Inbal great thanks for your decision to re-include my site in Google News. Appreciate it greatly. I know you got a ton of emails to respond to, but certainly hope that it won't be too long before our news items appear in Google News page again. ty

 

Best regards,

Brin

Dear methode: Two thumbs up for your tireless efforts to help others and for boosting my moral. Great thanks and you have a great day.

 

Besst regards,

Brin

If you have any more question, let me know; I'd be happy to answer them if I can or am allowed. 

Though, you should start a new thread for them as this has been already answered.