Benefit of having a site in Google News

if you have a site listed in Google news, have you seen any direct benefit?

traffic
links.

Just wondering if there is any real value in having a site listed

 

I too, wonder about this. There is the monetary benefit, and my assumption is that it does matter, I just wonder how much it affects one's income because I haven't seen a lot of discussion about it.

Anyone?

Stuart

 

You can get a ton of traffic. Google news is like Google without a billion competing websites and serps that changed drasticly every hour or so.

You can pick up links too - bloggers tend to blog about things in Google News.

 

What's the best way of getting in?

 

well as of right now i have submitted two sites.

one was rejected (twice) and the other was accepted.

For the on that was accpeted i tried to show the "unique" value my site brought

If you want I can PM you the letter i sent them.

 

Cheers, that would be appreciated.

 

Sent ya a PM

 

would you mind sharing it with me as well! Thanks in advance

 

Could I also see the letter?

Thanks

 

well it's really nothing special lol

but i'll send it anyway

 

I'd love to see it also, could you send it this way? Maybe in the future I may submit my site to GN.

Stuart

 

me too, if you could.
Thanks

 

I'd like to see it too if you don't mind

Thanks in advance.

 

Send me the mail too...i would like to take a look at it

Thanx.

 

I didn't do anything too special. I just inforced the idea that we are "canadian" and that we offer a unique prospective

 

Maybe you could just post it up on here? If not, I wouldn't mind seeing it as well.

 

I submitted a site a few weeks ago and got denied. They didn't really give me any reasons.

I guess I'll wait a few more weeks and resubmit?

 

The letter may play a tiny part in the approval process but it's the site that matters most. When I sent them an e-mail about my site (that was later approved) it said "great news site for topic"...that was it.

 

I got into G news by submitting a press release along with $32 to PRweb.

Going to try it again Monday.

 

Thats how I did it and now when I search for a string pattern from my press release I get about 29,000 hits just for that unique pattern, so lots of people picked it up.

I haven't analyzed my clients weblogs or conversion logs yet to see if it helped.