| Best approach for news posts that change after publishing (like sports news?) | dradicke | 5/22/12 11:40 PM | Hello,I have looked around but not really succeeded to find this topic being answered here or in the help section... If we publish a news story, say about a football match. The URL is http://www.domain.com/todays-game-team-a-versus-team-b.html At half time, |
| Re: Best approach for news posts that change after publishing (like sports news?) | chrz | 5/23/12 6:40 AM | Hi Dradicke, I have never seen a set answer or reference from GN about this either, but would be interested in knowing what they think would be best. I have done, and have seen it done, a couple of different ways, all of which worked: 1) an update ad |
| Re: Best approach for news posts that change after publishing (like sports news?) | bobbygunn | 5/23/12 2:30 PM | Chris is right here. Just update the article and not the title or url. Changing the title can be done but it is not automatically picked up after a story is indexed in news. NEVER change the permalink or url of an indexed article as that could cause |
| Re: Best approach for news posts that change after publishing (like sports news?) | goognews | 5/23/12 8:59 PM | why could changing the URL cause lots of trouble? Sometimes articles move, right? |
| Re: Best approach for news posts that change after publishing (like sports news?) | chrz | 5/23/12 9:11 PM | Articles shouldn't move once they are indexed in GN. The GN team is very committed to the user having a positive experience using Google News. Once an article is listed in the news index, it has the potential to receive a lot of traffic. It would no |
| Re: Best approach for news posts that change after publishing (like sports news?) | dradicke | 5/24/12 12:22 AM | Hi everybody,thanks for advise! We have this newswire service that does change (from outside) the Headline and thus the html-title... (which is sometimes reflected in google news, and sometimes not...) Sometimes (say, if there is a typo in the headli |
| Re: Best approach for news posts that change after publishing (like sports news?) | bobbygunn | 5/24/12 12:36 AM | Yes you can do a 301 if necessary. If something is incorrect, just fix it and move on with a 301. You can change a title and keep the url the same and that will work also. I just say it is not advised as when we have done that, sometimes the title is |