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Optimizing News Sites For Google News

Posted by michael on from the GIGO dept.

malibucreek writes "More trouble for Google News? Yesterday, it was Google News censoring stories for China. Today, the Online Journalism Review details a potential conservative bias in the site's algorithm for news search results. The story also includes some details about how Google ranks stories on its news page. Turns out that on Google News, backlinks do *not* improve search positioning."

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  1. Re:Article text has excellent theory. by slungsolow · · Score: 4, Informative
    The majority if news organizations follow standards similar to the AP Style Guidelines. When dealing with proper names you usually would do the following:
    On first reference, use a person's full name, including the middle initial, and title if important to the story. On second reference, use only the last name with no title. In the following example, for instance, we assume that on first reference the person was called Dr. Donald Drumm. The following are possible second-reference uses: The doctor agreed. Drumm agreed.