| Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Harvey | 2/14/11 12:44 PM | Hello News Publishers and Forum Users, In the hope of providing the best news sources to our users, we periodically review sites in our database. Sometimes, we include or remove sites based on a series of quality guidelines. We are committed to appl |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Cjnews | 2/14/11 7:03 PM | Harvey P.- Thanks for the update. Your views seems to be fair enough. With my past good experience with Help Center, I suggest everybody to use it as frequently as possible. Direct all your queries to Help Center, found here: http://www.google.com/ |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | cricket121 | 2/15/11 5:38 AM | If I am right then "How To" articles are not allowed in Google News but some of the big sites are publishing these. I want to know if websites publishing "How To" articles along with "News" articles get included in Google News. |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | erku | 2/15/11 7:46 AM | Thank you Harvey fair post. I would like to ask the following. 1. When does the 30 day period end. Does it end 30 days after the last news story is indexed in G News? Let's say the last story is indexed Jan. 19, does the 30 day end Feb 19? I am aski |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Dh.P | 2/15/11 12:37 PM | @NewGuy1970 - I definitely agree with most of the points you have made and would add that journalism is all about freedom of speech, presenting the facts and expressing the views, so if some bunch of readers do not agree with the viewpoint of a publi |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Cjnews | 2/15/11 8:04 PM | @ Dh.P No I am not interested in any ranking or have any other vested interest. I just expressed my views that also covering much wider areas than originally suggested in this thread. Google help forum has many many similar posts and having a singl |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Todd Nemet | 2/17/11 3:12 PM | I was just debugging a friend's news site and it turned out to be a WordPress plugin called "Bad Behavior," which was returning a 403 to Googlebot requests. You may want to update or remove this plugin if you are seeing lots of 403s in your crawl err |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | nextgeneric | 2/18/11 3:29 PM | I just get the same, automated reply when I contact Google. I haven't been told privately what's wrong with Erictric.com, and I've been left in the dark. This has devastated our traffic levels, but we continue to march forward. |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Todd Nemet | 2/22/11 11:33 AM | @NewGuy1970, just saw your post. Sorry the delay. I saw a bunch of 403s in the crawler errors. Also, Fetch as Googlebot for the home page returned a 403, while using curl on the site from my home IP returned a 200. The sitemap file couldn't be downlo |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | ChennaiScripts | 2/22/11 8:51 PM | Our website http://www.equitybulls.com which was crawled for last 4-5 years was suddenly stopp |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Rohit1989 | 2/24/11 6:52 AM | Here is another example of how these big news publishers use Google news to generate traffic for their e-commerce stores, just because of poor response from the end users. Go to http://google.co.in Select news section or set your Google news country as Ind |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Cjnews | 2/24/11 7:53 AM | Rohit1989 Such sites do no qualify to be included in Google news. Even if they have been listed, they must be delisted. I do not know how others can be punished for better contents in similar situation. See http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/ne |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Rohit1989 | 2/28/11 4:10 AM | Here is a third example of this type of e-commerce stores promotion: go to Google news India and enter term as, site:http://techtree.com flipkart |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | edevnetwork | 3/4/11 7:10 AM | Hi, Our site was removed from Google News in October. Since we have made changes to the site and want to resubmit to Google News. What is the procedure for resubmitting? Is there a form to be filled or its the same procedure as submitting a new site |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | momsword | 3/4/11 11:41 AM | yeah I just got an email saying my website was removed. Problem is that I have been with google news for over two years.. have been following the google guidelines, haven't changed anything. in fact we even state the authors on my website (momsword.o |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | amylabroo | 3/4/11 2:04 PM | Hi - I am not sure why my sitemap for news all of a sudden is not being accept by Google. http://www.yourtango.com/newssitemap.xml can you please let me know? Thanks! Amy |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | edevnetwork | 3/4/11 10:40 PM | Can anyone advise how to resubmit the site on Google News after the mandatory 30 days period since removal? |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Rohit1989 | 3/7/11 2:43 AM | @edevnetwork It is just like you submit it previously. |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | momsword | 3/7/11 8:11 AM | Does google employees actually respond to emails or look at this support forum?!?!? I don't get why I got an automated reply saying my site is being taken off of google news and my site was on there for nearly 2 yrs! We follow the rules! we don't wa |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | momsword | 3/8/11 7:17 AM | what are some good websites like content news? I was reading Gawker had an issue recently, I think they were kicked out of GN but now they are back in there. I wish the people who work for google would respond to discussions otherwise having google. |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | chipandco | 3/9/11 10:42 AM | I have been reading this thread and wondered why my site Disney News site was blacklisted. I see other Disney News sites that are identical to mine that are still alive in kicking. We have been listed as a Disney News Source for the past 2 years+ as |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | momsword | 3/10/11 12:25 AM | I don't think there are humans who respond to google news support. There used to be but now I see that they don't answer emails or what not. It seems they take off sites without giving a warning or emailing them first ..they should give a warning and |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | momsword | 3/10/11 4:03 PM | well I just got a response. .shocking! lol a 'robot' email: "Thank you for your note. Although we're unable to provide specific suggestions at this time, we sincerely appreciate your interest in Google News and your willingness to provide your artic |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | aeyweb | 3/11/11 7:00 PM | well would be nice professional google news team to provide and explain why or how sites has been removed from google news because last time l found even porn in google news and reward my site now been removed with out any reason. |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | erku | 3/16/11 1:41 PM | Hi Harvey, As an honest publisher, I also add my voice to those here in this forum that think that it would be very helpful if Google News would tell publishers why their site is removed. For example it's one thing that you want to not tell a blogge |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | gogoi | 3/16/11 11:36 PM | I would agree to what Erku has mentioned in his message. |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | NewsHawaii247com | 3/20/11 7:52 PM | There's no way someone can tell me that a human looked at our website and came up with this answer, "We don't include sites that are purely news aggregators, and we weren't able to find any stories on your site that weren't from outside sources." We |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | lknobel | 3/22/11 5:16 PM | Our site, http://www.berkeleyside.com, has vanished from Google News since Saturday. We do more original reporting on Berkeley, CA, than anyone else. We provide stories to the San Francisco Chronicle, so we have the irony of our stories being indexed |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | lknobel | 3/22/11 5:52 PM | I haven't despaired yet, NewGuy1970. There's a frustrating opacity about Google certainly, but I know we're right. |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | momsword | 3/22/11 6:23 PM | what bugs me a site like huffingtonpost who was bought recently, they report some news themselves but other news articles on their website comes form reuters, and other places and we are talking word-for-word. It is like they don't even try to report |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | lknobel | 3/22/11 6:45 PM | We're not reliant on Google News, but it is a useful source. I'm just irritated and determined to right the wrong. I've written about it here: http://www.davosnewbies.com/2011/03/22/local-news-were-at-googles-mercy/. I'm trying to make as much noise |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | lknobel | 3/22/11 6:52 PM | NewGuy: I subscribe to the screw-up theory of history, not the conspiracy. My guess is someone in Google News took what seemed an innocent decision and it had malign unintended consequences. I'm not so naive as to think Google is all sweetness and l |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | momsword | 3/23/11 4:01 PM | i am no relying on them for hits. It is just frustrating and I was making a point with my posts lol. That they don't give a person a reason why their website is being kicked out. I still think it is someone who is bored, looks at a website and thinks |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | lknobel | 3/23/11 4:27 PM | It was a bug, not a conspiracy. Most people should be coming back into the index: http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/google-news-de-indexing-berkleyside-bug-not-snub/ |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | gogoi | 3/25/11 10:33 AM | I am not sure, how many people, who were kicked out by Google have managed to get back ? |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | gabbazoo | 3/29/11 12:09 PM | news? How Libya Could Break Obama Fox News - 48 minutes ago This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," March 28, 2011. This copy may n this is not fucking news. Hannity transcripts aren't in the least bit news. please get this junk off your si |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | NewGuy1970 | 3/29/11 2:51 PM | @gabbazoo -- you are preaching to the choir... GN Team is 100% Pro GOP and any adverse posting regarding the aforementioned will get you booted from GN in a heartbeat... just start publishing trash talk about the DNC or Obama and you will be on Top B |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | TSmith958 | 4/15/11 6:38 AM | what makes one of these sites ok to be in GN while the other is being rejected http://tiny.cc/l4j95 = ALLOWED IN GN VS http://tiny.cc/3c1g9 = NOT ALLOWED IN GN |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | GH-Atalink | 4/24/11 4:32 AM | I had a site delisted from Google News - it had been on for 3 years. I got a message saying "Thanks for your willingness to provide content to Google News, but there are certain guidelines that must be followed." The answer is of course typically v |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | NewGuy1970 | 4/24/11 7:25 AM | Will never happen... our site received a string of hate e-mail, posts, and threats that were politically motivated. They made false accusations to GN and our Sponsors... Our sponsors listen, GN well, if they agree with the political complaints of tho |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | infoceta | 5/2/11 10:06 PM | Reference #730735168: Site removed from Google News despite having top news agency sources Our site was in Google News for around 3 months. We are extremely disappointed with the rejection of our site http://www.ic-technews.com from Google News. We have b |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | foxbv | 7/4/11 1:42 AM | Hello. Can you check my website? Maybe you removed it from Google News? http://extrafast.ru Stopped indexing about 8-10 days ago. Hope that this is a mistake. best regards Vladimir |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | stalcupt | 7/10/11 2:29 PM | Please remove Detroit News (http://www.detnews.com) from Google News, until such a time that opinion pieces from this source do not appear as Google "News". Here is the link to the opinion piece in question: http://www.detnews.com/article/20110710/ |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | NewGuy1970 | 7/10/11 3:19 PM | @stal Yeah so what's the problem with telling the truth? You some sort of right-wing republican communist out to finish off what's left of this country or what? |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Pelora | 7/18/11 1:48 PM | Is there a way I can choose certain newspapers to be deleted from my Google news feed; Daily Mail, Sun for example? |
| Re: Attention Publishers: Site Removals | Faisal11 | 7/19/11 12:02 PM | I have applied for inclusion one month ago, when will I hear from google? |