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Google News are failing to index my site. Please someone help me on what i can change form GL site to be indexed by Google News, Not Just Google

Thank you in advance

What is your website URL ?

Byte
LinuxElectrons

http:/www.zimdaily.com

Sorry meant http://www.zimdaily.com

Looks good. Have you submitted your site to Google?

Byte

Oh yeah, any hint of copyright infringement will get you dropped like a hot potatoe. Not saying that you have infringing material, but just a word of advice.

Byte

Yes I have submitted...what do u mean by copyright infringement??

Googlebot is indexing your site: http://www.google.com/search?hs=0L2&q=site%3Azimdaily.com+-zzzzzzz&btnG=Search

A number of your pages though are not cached. Have you had any recent problems with your server going down?

Since you offer an online newspaper, you may want to consider contacting Google News and see if they would add your site to their news section.

The title of your full article page has hyperlink to link it to itself, which is against Google News' ability to list you.

Type "Google News" on the search function in the forum to find out how to remove the hyperlink on the full article page and keep in on the intro page. It was discussed just a while ago.

Sam

Thanks mike, i will contcat google .


Sam have searched on the forum on how to remove the hypelink but failed to get anything. Can you help me please.

Thanks

Muna

Well simply type "google news" in the above "search this forum" field gave me exactly the list.

Anyway, the link is here.

Sam

Samstone this is what i got from the link you posted


1) remove th link from the storytext.thtml template
2) in system/lib-story.php, change line 207 from this:

$article->set_var( 'story_title', stripslashes( $A['title'] ));

to this:

$article->set_var( 'story_title', ' '" class="non-ul">' . stripslashes( $A['title'] ) . '' );

I dont understand point number 1 " remove the link from the storytext.html"


Which link do i have to remove??

In fact there are two theme files you need to change: storytext.thtml and featurestorytext.thtml. Both are in your layout theme directory. If you are using Professional them it is in /public_html/layout/professional/

You need to remove the html tag that generates the link, which is the starts with <a href... and ends with </a> before and after the {story_title}. Remove the tag.

Sam

Thanks sam have done that.

Can you check for me if its ok now coz i do not see any difference. I have removed tge tags on both featuredstorytext.thtml and storytext.thtml

This is the only part I know that google required. There are other parts, such as the copyright issue that ByteEnalbe talked about. You might want to read their policies.

You should receive an email from Google if they approves your site. They don't reply to your submission right away, and even after approval, you are not listed right away. I don't remember how long it took for mine to be listed. I guess I received their email 2-3 weeks after the submission telling me that I was approved and they would list it in a couple of weeks.

If you don't receive any email from them than you should find out why they don't approve.

Sam

Thanks sam you are a start

Meant you are a STAR