If you are aiming to rank in Google News but doing exactly the same thing you do in your ordinary websites then you are likely wasting your effort in link building. The reason for this is that for Google News there’s a different emphasis on the importance of factors.
One of the most significant difference in the ranking factors between Google News and Google Web is that pagerank is not as important in Google News. The reason for this is that due to the nature of news stories what is most important is of course the freshness and relevance of the content.
In Google News the robots crawl and find news articles in a matter of minutes and then comeback to check for updates approximately 12 hours later. What this means is that the number of back links is rightfully not deemed to be that important since there will be very few, if any, back links generated within that timeframe.
So what are the things you can do for your news articles to rank well in Google News?
1.Pick a story that you know is of interest to a wide audience. The reason for this is that Google News ranks news articles in two ways. First is the story ranking wherein they group together stories and figure out which stories are of greater interest. Obviously bigger stories will rank better than small stories (even if written and optimized well) since the articles belonging to the
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