I admin a medical portal which was indexed by Google news. At the end of march, Google News dropped my sites. I tried many times but each times I get fail. Please have a look on my site and give me your expert review so Google again index my site to their news service. Domain URL is:- http://goo.gl/PY6J6 I expect for some excellent quality of response from DP loyals... Thanks and Regards, Devjeet
Did Google give you any reason for being dropped such as lack of an authors page, insufficient number of authors, promoting your own content, etc? I have had sites dropped from Google News in the past also, and usually they provided some type of an explanation. The explanation, though usually vague, usually can help to track down what the issue might be.
Do you outsource the articles? How it their grammar? If you don't have good content, better put some more/good/authority content on your niche.
Are you reproducing content elsewhere? As in posting duplicate stuff on other sites? Possible you got affected by the "Panda" effect. I.E. The Google Panda Algorithm update.
farasens brings up a great point. If the quality of your news articles (spelling, grammar, fact checking, etc.) is not good then that is another reason you could be dropped. I have seen sites dropped from Yahoo News for these exact reasons.
We produce a lot of content for Google News, and I have yet to see an impact of posting syndicated or duplicate news content. The Google News algorithm appears to be separate from the organic algorithm, for example back links do not play as large a role in Google News rankings since stories are constantly breaking and you do not have time to build a lot of back links to them. So the Panda update does not appear to have been incorporated much if at all into the Google News algorithm. Naturally a lot of news articles are not unique and are syndicated, think about how many large newspaper sites publish AP stories. Google News values unique news stories very highly, so if you publish a syndicated article it likely is just ignored and you are not penalized for it. Similar to organic results Google News rewards sites that publish the first article which becomes syndicated. Google News even has an optional source meta tag which allows you to identify which site published the original syndicated content. Not many sites use this tag though. http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=191283 Now if your site is only producing syndicated content and nothing original then it is possible you could be dropped for that reason. I have never seen a site dropped for that reason alone, but I have never reviewed a site dropped for only publishing syndicated content. It is pretty difficult to get accepted into Google News these days, so I would be shocked if a site was accepted that was only publishing syndicated content to begin with. It is possible Google could also take action against you if you were abusing the source meta tag and trying to claim you were the original source for all syndicated content you produced.
I know a friend outsourced the content to some poor content providers, the next day Google news dropped him.
I never outsource articles....we have a team of content writers. I think content quality is also good.
@Admin Please either delete the post of remove that URL. We are in touch with Google teams and trying to recover from this issue.
@devjeetsingh Please keep posted about the reason behind your recent droppings in Google news as your contacting the Google team. So that we will also learn about the reasons for dropping.