Ash K. Gilpin

Google News now offers publishers a way to to use their existing feeds — or define a more advanced Sitemap of their current news articles — to tell Google exactly which articles they’d like us to crawl.  They are offering this new support within Google webmaster tools.  Webmaster tools also offer publishers detailed information on the types of queries that lead visitors to various pages on a website, which can be helpful for understanding user information needs and access patterns.

Google also wants to provide content owners more visibility into which articles are ultimately included in Google News, so they’re now offering error reports specific to Google News. These error reports will explain any problems they’ve experienced crawling or extracting news articles from a publisher’s site.

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