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4/9/10

Our site has been on google news since 2008 but dropped off in February during a site redesign.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q=site:resourceinvestingnews.com&cf=all

The news sitemap (http://resourceinvestingnews.com/newsmap.xml) has a green check in the status column, and the format is 'News' but the indexed URLs count is 0 (many submitted though). There are many "Article too long" Crawl Errors in the news section.

Does the site design need to be changed before it gets indexed again? Or does it just need to be updated on google new's system to reflect the style changes?

Site: http://resourceinvestingnews.com

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brittany1

Google Employee
4/16/10

Best answer - schpet (Asker) Go to this answer

Hi there,

We've checked our crawlers and found they weren't recognizing your content due to your articles' length (please see the reference below for more about this particular error and formatting tips). We've noted your articles' format in our system, so we should start crawling more of you site soon.

References:

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methode

Top Contributor
4/9/10

Hi,

On the article pages, you will have to make the titles inline, not 'clickable'.
Having the titles clickable prevents correct indexation.

Fix this please, then if your issue isn't solved, we look deeper.

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schpet

Level 1
4/10/10

Thank you methode!

I've made the changes and will be watching webmaster tools.

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schpet

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4/14/10

I'm still receiving the 'Article too long' errors with non-linked titles.

Is there anything I can do with the content's html to make it more obvious to the crawl bot?

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brittany1