Showing posts with label Google News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google News. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Google's New Metatags, syndication-source and original-source Give Credit where credit is due

In a world where blogs and news sites mushroom, a source of a news item might get lost in the translation of the links. We usually try our best to give a link back to our source, like in this case there is a backlink to the source in the title and at the bottom of the article. But of course I learned about the post elsewhere, on twitter. But the link to the Twitter is missing and I went back to look for it and it is now lost among thousands of tweets. But that would have been a good example of syndication link or a syndication source.
But expect Google to provide a solution, Google is experimenting with two new metatags for Google News: syndication-source and original-source. Each of these metatags allow publishers to take credit as well as give credit to other journalists, the only way everyone will be able to survive and a do a good job on the long run. The following two Metatags will be valid to point to original source(s) in one page. In case of not knowing the exact originals source URL, you can point to the general domain, so the credit will travel in right direction..
  • syndication-source indicates the preferred URL for a syndicated article. If two versions of an article are exactly the same, or only very slightly modified, we're asking publishers to use syndication-source to point us to the one they would like Google News to use. For example, if Publisher X syndicates stories to Publisher Y, both should put the following metatag on those articles:
  • original-source indicates the URL of the first article to report on a story. We encourage publishers to use this metatag to give credit to the source that broke the story. We recognize that this can sometimes be tough to determine. But the intent of this tag is to reward hard work and journalistic enterprise. For example, to credit the publication that broke a story you could use a metatag like this:

These metatags are already in use by Google, Google is telling us that the impact may not visible right away. But we all can help by adopting these Meatatags in our sites.
You can learn how these metatags work, and how you can implement them for your site, by visiting Google Help Center article.
Google News Blog: Credit where credit is due

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ads With Your Google News


Ads with your Google news seems to be the newest addition to the Google Advertising. The ads will appear when you search on Google News provided you are from USA. The Google Ads are similar to what you get with Google Search or with Google Book Search.
The ads themselves are experiments based on different formats like overlay ads, embedded videos from partners. Publishers and advertisers will benefit from these experiments as usual.
I have a screen cap searching for Google Phone related news, for those people who are out side of USA and do not know how to uses a proxy! :)
Google News Blog: Ads in Google News search results


Monday, February 9, 2009

Display Relevant Google News On Your Website


I usually start my web day with reading Google News among other news portals. But I am sure many of you start your day with your own website. In that case, Google has offered means for you to run Google news sidebar or a Google news widget on your site, saving you you few clicks. (In my case click home icon and then click news as my starter page is Google.)
You will also be able to focus on the segment of the news you want to read or know. Perhaps what your readers might be interested in like Sports, Business or entertainment. If you prefer, you can also select keywords releated to your website, like Advertising or The viral frontier, as I would chose.
All these are thanks to Google Ajax Search API and you can read their post or just run the wizard offered by the team. I learnt about it at the following link;
Official Google Blog: Add Google News to your website