Posts Tagged ‘News’
Preparing a blog for Google News
Last Updated on Friday, 18 December 2009 05:03 Written by Mike Friday, 18 December 2009 02:21
It’s come to my attention that a fair amount of traffic can be had if your blog is approved for Google News. With that in mind this blog post will attempt to chronicle the steps necessary in order to to have your blog approved for Google news consumption. one important thing to keep in mind here is that news will not just index or accept any content.
Google is rather picky about what they except for syndication, they look at a few factors to determine which news sources to accept. After all if they were not picky Google News would be full of spam and junk and no one would be interested in what was there. Instead you must create a trustworthy and useful news resource.
Of course, not just any site will be accepted into Google News, it is recommend that you should be producing real news content on a daily basis. this should be done before you even consider submitting your site to the Google News service. We don’t want to see SEO shams competing to get past the editorial filters.
Okay, Now that that’s out of the way let’s take a look at the technical requirements:
- You can help the Google crawler gather articles correctly by ensuring that each that displays articles full text has a unique URL that ever changes. Google will not include sites in Google News at this point multiple copies of the same articles at the same URL.
- The URL for each article also should contain a unique number consisting of at least three digits.
- Remember that Google cannot include sites for which the URL of your main page includes the date. URLs with dates in them often change. This prevents Google from crawling the site for new content, as Google is unable to detect the most current URL to be crawled.
- Google’s automated bot works best when it is crawling with regular HTML links. Google is still unable to crawl image links or links embedded within JavaScript.
In addition to the technical requirements you must still make a case as to why your blog should be accepted. You could do this by providing relevant information about the site including the historical background, describing any awards site has received. In addition you wish to provide stats about the site. You can also discuss who links to your site (especially popular sites). In addition make sure you have news related or mostly news related content.
Tags: Google, Google News, News | Posted under Geek Tech, Sites | 2 Comments
Our site on local channel Baynews 9
Last Updated on Saturday, 13 June 2009 07:02 Written by Mike Sunday, 1 March 2009 12:35
Wow! that’s about how I sum up the feeling of seeing your work recognized in the media. Thurday Feb 26th, 2009 exactly 1 month after launching JobShouts. We were given that opportunity.
Robin was our PR spokesperson that day, appearing for a whole 2:43 of Television coverage. I sat in the control room watching the event take place.
they left me alone with all those buttons?
That was probably the highlight of the year for me. Seeing our project develop much faster than expected was a huge rush, I wonder if I had a silly grin on my face as I sat in the Directors chair.
When I shot this twitpic Robin had just sat down, in the web center, I could see her on a small window just above the closest monitor on the left.
I could also see a shot of the NYC side of the Hudson river. Odd I thought, I wondered if they were watching for another plane to land there.
A few moments later 5 people came into the control room to run sound checks, position cameras, cue teleprompter scripts.
I must have been grinning like a schoolboy in a candy store.
Cue lights, sound, roll tape er spin up the HDD, ACTION 
Erica Riggins conducted the interview in typical conservative bn9 fashion. After an initial introduction The questions started.
Robin was amazing on the monitors for the amount of anxiety she must have felt. I give her kudos for only stumbling a couple times. I fully expected to be briefly interviewed about what topics were of interest to the viewers, before taping. Next time we do a little more prep work.
Tags: Job Search, Media, News, press | Posted under Geek Tech | No Comments
JobShouts vs. JobAngels
Last Updated on Saturday, 13 June 2009 07:03 Written by Mike Saturday, 14 February 2009 12:01
This had to be written, two separate ideas, two separate entities, one a cause, ours a business adventure.
JobAngels was the thought of one guy, Mark Stelzner. He was watching the twitter ‘stream’ one morning, he saw tweople talking about job loss, job searches, #jobs hashtags, including @jobshouts. That morning of that first memorable #jobangels tweet was January 29th 2009.
JobShouts was 4 days old and had pulled in close to 400 followers, by chirping out job ads from recruiters, and HR personnel we had connected with. A lot of people liked what we were doing even @chrisbrogan, and @shelisrael gave us props
JobShouts was built as a site before we went live. Open Source based, modified with additional classes and functions, enabling us to talk to twitter. We built a site to compete with the big boards, without all the fluff, we just want JOBS. Being free I bet we can get a lot of them. What do you think?
A conference call was setup between the principals On Feb 11th 2009. The attendees were @tall_geek, @imjustagoyle, @emploerbrander, and @stelzner. We participated in a 30 minute conference call. Discussions centered mostly around what we were doing, suggestions of complementing each other by linking to each others sites. I offered a front page logo and a page to describe their efforts.
JobAngels won’t have a site for a couple more weeks. They are setting up a legit non-profit corp. crossing their t’s and dotting the i’s so to speak. Mark was pretty adamant about their need to “own their data”. That is the reason the site is not live already at Ning, or KickApps. We applaud their efforts, but I question for the need to “own” all that data. If your just a bunch of volunteers trying to help people get jobs. Why do you need to own “all the data”?
Jobshouts is a job board. A simple to use, free place to advertise that you are hiring. Because we are active with it and have built it around twitter, and social media, that has brought us some attention. Nice, but I don’t think we were ready for it.
Now it’s up to us to deliver. What good is all that attention if we don’t deliver something of value. JobShouts aims to do just that.
Tags: Job Search, JobAngels, News, press | Posted under Best of the Web, Life | No Comments
