Your Site and Google News
Do you have received an email from Google Team, which states that “[Ref No.] Your Site and Google News: We recently reviewed your site and found that we are no longer able to include it in Google News at this time. We have certain guidelines in place regarding the quality of sites which are included in the Google News index. If your site is in violation of these guidelines, it will not be added to Google News. Please feel free to review these guidelines at the following link:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#3
We appreciate your willingness to provide your articles to us, and we will log your site for future consideration.
Regards,
The Google News Team
Do you know that Google has recently introduced a new algorithm for its search engine, so that only websites with original content should be preferred above those websites which copy contents from other sources.
In a blog post, Well-Known Google Employee Matt Cutts said that the latest move is an attempt to cut down on spam sites in Google news search results, which basically repackage stolen content from other news sites.
Cutts further said that the change was “targeted” and will only affect just about 2% of search queries. He stated on his twitter page at http://twitter.com/mattcutts that “The news folks are actually starting a nice crackdown on low-quality/spammy news sources.”
So, if you recently noticed that Google has kicked out your website from Google News because you publish that website content, which consists of rewritten news from other sites, then this crackdown may be the main reason behind it that’s why you are no longer getting your stories indexed under Google News.
But do you know Google was already content spamming their own index with Google Translate pages. Let’s understand it by taking real example, if you searched site:translate.google.com up came thousands of pages that Google was indexing of a simply auto-translated set of search results. Here is a screenshot:
So now Decide Yourself Who is Spamming You or Google.
