I want to make my website listed on Google News .. However this can be seen Google News Requirements "Article URLs should be unique, permanent and include at least three digits that don't resemble a year. If you prefer, you can use News Sitemaps to submit articles with URLs that don't contain at least three digits. Can someone tell me what is 3 digit as per google news requirements please .. On my website all news are structured sitename.com/post-title/ .. There are no dates on the URLS .. what should i do ? It should be sitename.com/4/4/12/post-title/ ? thanks
its like your url should be.... http://www.example.com/category/125-news-headline.html 125 is a three digital number in the above url.
can anyone tell me if the three digits number is needed for google news ? i have seen news having 201072.html, 2012/0720/1224320449797.html, articleshow/15050797.cms, 201207190782.html in google news .. what are the 3 digit numbers in these examples?
In your first example the number google is looking for is 0720. Yes, they still require the number. Most people setup their rewrite in wordpress something like: post-title/post-id The post-id is a wordpress number and it meets Google's requirement