I run a news website, and previously we used Google.com/trends for all of our keywords. Well, since the change to Google Trends, we've seen a dramatic drop in traffic(15,000 uniques per day to barely 2,000). I started using the gadgets in iGoogle, but this does barely anything. Also, we have not changed the way we write or optimize articles, so I'm totally lost. Does anyone have any advice or perhaps know what is happening with Google News? Thanks
From the overwhelming response to your post I would say that there are not too many experts on Google News and maybe none who want to share their strategies. I never used Google trends, or at least not extensively, so I can't comment on that source. Generally though, Google keeps changing things in News so that the bigger publishers are increasingly on top. I used to have some types of articles that always ranked high and long, and now the same kind of articles with similar titles get very little help from Google.
I'm always looking for info on running a News site and finding very little of it. Do you know of any helpful forums or anything?