Posts on newspaper sites, huffpo, etc



This whole thread makes me sick...

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I think some people will jump on the opportunity that has presented itself. It's clear there is a huge demand, AND I concede my initial perspective may have been a bit tainted.

Carry on...​

If you take fresh perspective you may find an opportunity that has a tainted perception
 
Google is already onto you guys.... as of last week. :)

Credibility and trust are longstanding journalistic values, and ones which we all regard as crucial attributes of a great news site. It’s difficult to be trusted when one is being paid by the subject of an article, or selling or monetizing links within an article. Google News is not a marketing service, and we consider articles that employ these types of promotional tactics to be in violation of our quality guidelines.

Please remember that like Google search, Google News takes action against sites that violate our quality guidelines. Engagement in deceptive or promotional tactics such as those described above may result in the removal of articles, or even the entire publication, from Google News.

If a site mixes news content with affiliate, promotional, advertorial, or marketing materials (for your company or another party), we strongly recommend that you separate non-news content on a different host or directory, block it from being crawled with robots.txt, or create a Google News Sitemap for your news articles only. Otherwise, if we learn of promotional content mixed with news content, we may exclude your entire publication from Google News.

tl;dr : News sites risk getting the boot from GN indexing for virtually any form of monetizing (aside from banner ads & paywalls, imo)... except the big media sites, likely.

Google News Blog: A reminder about promotional and commerce journalism
 
Google is already onto you guys.... as of last week. :)

Credibility and trust are longstanding journalistic values, and ones which we all regard as crucial attributes of a great news site. It’s difficult to be trusted when one is being paid by the subject of an article, or selling or monetizing links within an article. Google News is not a marketing service, and we consider articles that employ these types of promotional tactics to be in violation of our quality guidelines.

Please remember that like Google search, Google News takes action against sites that violate our quality guidelines. Engagement in deceptive or promotional tactics such as those described above may result in the removal of articles, or even the entire publication, from Google News.

If a site mixes news content with affiliate, promotional, advertorial, or marketing materials (for your company or another party), we strongly recommend that you separate non-news content on a different host or directory, block it from being crawled with robots.txt, or create a Google News Sitemap for your news articles only. Otherwise, if we learn of promotional content mixed with news content, we may exclude your entire publication from Google News.

tl;dr : News sites risk getting the boot from GN indexing for virtually any form of monetizing (aside from banner ads & paywalls, imo)... except the big media sites, likely.

Google News Blog: A reminder about promotional and commerce journalism

Wtf why you outing?
 
Christ..........Everyone that msg'd me - I am not selling links!!!! I PM'd the OP and told him this was a dead end.
Some guy posted something in the BST forum ages ago and Google slapped it.

First of all, you're full of shit, you didn't PM me.

Second, I'm not interested in links.

This is some fucking Bullshit. ...
This shit needs to be closed.

Stop your whining.

If this thread is -outing- your tactics, you need better tactics.