Submission of Blogs to Google News – Response
Posted by ryan on March 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Google Blog news Submission :: Response within 8 hours!
Thank you for your interest in Google News. We’ve received your suggestion and we’re unable to include it in Google News at this time. We don’t include sites that are written and maintained by one individual. We currently only include articles from sources that could be considered organizations, generally haracterized by multiple writers and editors, availability of organizational information, and accessible contact information.
If you have additional questions, please visit our Help Forum at:
google.com/support/forum/p/news?hl=en
We appreciate your taking the time to contact us and will log your site for consideration should our requirements change.
When I get organized, I’ll submit my blog to google news again and see if I meet their quality guidelines. check out the blog in question, fact-based report on CT 2010 senate election debates. It’s definitely a one author show so far!
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Meta tags and Title Tags for SEO
Posted by ryan on March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
where and how should I add meta tags in my html code to improve my SEO?
- Matias P. M / Montreal, Canada
Meta tags belong between the <head> tags near the top of your HTML code.
The tags you definitely want to have are:
Title tag – Not technically a meta tag but definitely to be included, Most important tag for SEO and deifnitely includes your primary keywords for the page.
<title></title>
Description Tag – Second most important tag, use sentences, make a pitch if you can, but definitely include your keywords here.
<meta name="description" content="" />
Keywords Tag – Separate your keywords with commas, or group into phrases, lot of flexibility here and a lot of conflicting advice exists.
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
Robot Meta Tags
Primary Robots Tag – Instructs robots, or search engine software, to include your content in their search index and follow the links on this page to others in your website
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
Slurp No Yahoo Directory description tag – Tells Yahoo search engine to use your meta description instead of a description they find in the yahoo directory.
<meta name="slurp" content="noydir" />
Google bot tag – Similar to robots tag, provides directions to Googlebot. It is not necessary but can’t hurt.
<meta name="Googlebot" content="index,follow" />
Note, the examples above use the XML-style closing tag. Leave out the trailing / if your page is not xhtml.
