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Avatar Went Hot: November 27, 2007 - 11:28 am
Posted By: Wiep 587 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Google News is a great way of finding the latest news stories related to your industry. Being included in Google News means you can write about a story an instantly start receiving targeted traffic from people who are actively interested in what you have written.
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from MrThePlague 586 days ago #
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Am I the only one a bit confused on the Google Article URL number guidline? It says that "the URL for each article must contain a unique number consisting of at least three digits". The example given is, http://www.google.com/news/article234.html.

Then it goes on to say that "If the only number in the article consists of an isolated four-digit number that resembles a year, such as http://www.google.com/news/article2006.html, we won't be able to crawl it."

So if your URL structure contained the year in a directory (news/2007/) you're required to have an additional 3 digit, 4 digit (not resembling year) or 4+ digit number somewhere else in the URL? I might just be a bit slow today...

from planetc1 586 days ago #
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I can't speak for google but in some instances the unique 3-4 digit code may no longer be required, as they have improved news crawling methods. Scan your mouse over some headlines on the homepage and you'll notice a number of standard /year/month/topic articles being indexed. That being said, many use a 4 digit (or more) unique identifier for each post.

LA Times
/washington/2007/11/streisand-leans.html

Washington Post
/2007/11/27/author-lashes-out-at-romn_n_74378.html


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