Holy Crap. My Site Has Just Been Included in G*o*o*g*l*e News

I will be adding more advantageous placement of Adsense to start with and after the traffic picks up, as it does with a news site, will consider selling adspace.

Nice work!

I'm currently in the process of setting up my own Google News site, and plan on applying in the next few days. I'm doing it by the book, and have a writer churning out 3 or 4 news articles a day, rather than filling the site with backdated PRs as seems to be the way in the original WSOs.

Totally with you regarding selling on Flippa. Unfortunately a few have spoiled it for the many, but I also plan on keeping it alive and turning it into a real business, once accepted.

By the way, was this your first ever News site? I'm impressed you went with a niche, rather than general news.

Thanks to all for the congrats ... it's something I've been working very hard at for some time now.

Be very careful about following any WSOs to do this. Google has now cracked down due to an influx of spam sites in Google News and it is not as easy to get in as it once was. There are some very clear guidelines that are easy to follow and don't require a WSO.

Basically, it's great, original content, at least 3 writers that write every day, a nice news/magazine theme, content that is not filled up with self/site promotional articles ... that are actually newsworthy articles, contact info for all writers. My site and domain is a year old, so this site was not launched just to be included in Google News in the beginning and it's not a brand new site. That helps.

If you want to read the backlash of trying to get in the easy, fast way, read this thread

Quality of Google News Sites - Google News Help


I imagine the "under a week" method is pretty much gone now. It's a great thing to be included in the news but it will take work and time to do it right.

Thanks. Just accepted today so there won't be a traffic jump for a few more days when they start indexing it. As for the affiliate banners, Google reviews the sites before accepting them. I purposely had no banner ads on the site before being accepted. G news sites do have banner ads on them, so it's not a game changer if you do, but they will look closely at the types of offers being promoted.

That being said, I'm not certain about the newsworthiness as far as g news is concerned about a birdwatching niche, so that may be a drawback.

lol ... that's exactly why I won't launch a WSO on it. Hard work doesn't make for attention grabbing headlines.

Bingo. I took a site that had little commercial value because I did not attempt to monetize it in the traditional manner and with no real promotion, no backlinking, have just increased it's value by thousands.

That's why this is a nice long term business model. The site will only increase in value as long as it remains in g news. Headlines: Get Listed in G in 3 minutes or less with no backlinks or promotion.

While it's hard work creating all this great content, much of that, if not all, can be outsourced. I chose to write articles myself because I wanted top notch content while g was reviewing my application, but now that it's included, I will probably outsource more content than I was outsourcing.

In addition to the site's value increasing, the Google adsense income usually increases with these news sites also, probably at least enough to pay writers.

Congrates. You really worked for it. Apart from what you listed, is there any other thing you did to your site and what premium magazine theme you used.
Enwereuzo.

Actually, I thought I could do it until I read the G news forum and all the hoopla over there about the spam sites. I read that g was no longer accepting sites into g news at this time and my heart sank into my stomach. I put so much work into it ... but they were wrong. If you submit a quality site, they are still accepting them. Not as quickly as they were before, but speed isn't that important if you're working on a long term business site.

I hate to rain on a parade, but submitting any SEO's press release has usually gotten my site in google news within 12 hours. Basically anything Paul Hartunian teaches makes it really easy, so although that's nice, I'm not sure it's the bonanza everyone may think it is. Maybe I'm missing what you're saying, but if you're just saying your site shows up under news results when searching for your keyword, then you can learn to do that for twenty bucks in just a few hours whenever you want to.

But congrats anyway, good to be visible no matter how you arrive at it.

Well done Suzanne,

I think whats best is you've reiterated the point that this business, like any other business involves hard work and lots of action. Even someone like yourself, with a ton of experience had to do some serious work to get this to pay off.

Jolly well done!

There's a handy g news plugin that makes the sitemap automatically. I did a post this morning and it was in g news in 3 minutes.

Yes ... news articles are the only articles I do on this site. If it isn't a hot technology topic, I don't write about it.

Yesterday it was not being indexed. That happened this morning and already for the first half of today, I have half of the traffic that I had the entire month of October. I also have an Adsense income jump today, all from this site.

So traffic and revenue jump immediately.

Suzanne, I am very happy for you! congrats!

Thanks Jack. I had a 300x250 Adsense block in the sidebar, a 468x60 showing on the single post view and one 300x250 in the footer (it's a deep footer) when I applied.

I've seen some that have Adsense literally surrounding every post. You almost can't avoid clicking on it by accident if you read an article. Mine isn't anything like that. So, Adsense will not hinder your application if used prudently. I would avoid all other ads until the review process is over and then only add them slowly. I just changed my Adsense placement a little to make it more prominent but certainly not overwhelming.

One thing in the quality guidelines is that they will look for content that is overly self-promotional, so anyone thinking of Internet marketing articles, should reconsider that approach.

Even with modest ads on the site, just today from this site I made more in Adsense than all of my sites combined made last week ... the entire week, so I will be able to pay writers with the Adsense income alone.

The traffic today ... just today alone has been half of what the entire month of October was, so once accepted, just keep pumping out those fresh articles and the site will perform.

I don't even really target keywords at this point. I write about the tech news that really interests me the most and it is indexed with blinding speed and showing up on page one for numerous keywords under the news listing.

It's awesome. Hard work, but awesome. I'm doing a lot of writing until I have people I can count on for high quality articles. I have other writers, but I handle the articles that I consider the most important ones myself.

Hey awesome! It is so rewarding when you hard work actually converts into something successful. To be recognized by Google News. Turn that success into a launch pad for you to do more!

Your Adsense or ad revenue increases, your traffic increases by a huge amount, and your site becomes a whole lot more valuable. Once the traffic reaches a certain level, you will also be able to sell advertising space.

I mean just look at all the news sites that are huge earners
TechCrunch
Gizmodo
Engadget
Mashable
Huffington Post

Just for starters.

Congratulations that you got accepted. I also have an approved G news site.

It is a general newssite. But you can go all directions with it, even other languages. Gn is still accepting websites which are filled with original content. I know.
The sites that are having results in copyscape and are full with grammar mistakes have no chance.

I give one big advice to everybody that has a gn site, DON'T go to the forum in google news. They will not help you, the guys from google news are not talking with people in the forum. The last time that they did was three months ago because some changes in the guidelines.
Never ever give somebody the adres of your GN website. Even Flippa! Stay away!
When you want to get delisted at super speed, go to the GN forum, put up you website link, and you can be sure that somebody will report you (to get rid of the competition) to gn and you are gone!!

The traffic is great, one good article and you have 800 UV for that day, you can imagine what happens if you put beside it an affiliate offer that matches the content in the news article.

Got 850 yesterday ... woo hoo!

First time around, although it took them over 3 weeks to get back to me and accept it. I was beginning to think that they weren't going to accept it and getting very despondent.

I recommend a domain and site with posts going back to six months minimum. Some say less, but my site is a year old and already had 100 posts in it. I'm paying a main writer $2.50 per 200-250 article and he is very good at writing news articles. I've also used this service: http://www.warriorforum.com/warriors...e-writing.html
but only if I don't need the articles quickly. Turn around can be 5 or more days. I write a lot of articles myself, as well.

I mentioned above that there are pros and cons to that idea. I would love to put together an ebook but I would not love to start another **** storm over at G forums and have my site and my customer's sites hunted down and delisted.

There is already an existing course, the EB course that I mentioned and it is comprehensive. I've looked at it and it covers everything. I've done a couple of things differently, but not a lot. I didn't have the course when I put my site together and applied, but I've seen it since.

I'm thinking about offering private coaching and of course, continue to develop the site and take care of my other business.

Not until you rewrite all the content and wait a couple months and add unique content. Since that will take a lot of effort, you might just want to start from scratch.

Paranoia of course. They have delisted many sites from gnews and I'd rather not be one of them.

Good luck with it. Just concentrate on making a unique news site with lots of content. It's not a "quick" business model. Take the time to do the site right and then resubmit. It's worth it.

You submit it for approval once it is ready. I was on pins and needles because I didn't hear from them for 3 weeks.

Also applied recently to Yahoo and Bing, but haven't heard back from them yet.

Just pm E Brian Rose or go to Google Red Carpet - VIP Pass to Google's Front Page by E Brian Rose

Any word back from Yahoo! or Bing?

Heard a lot of news sites got delisted last week. Hope you weren't affected.

Congrats ! Well done ! So Where is the party ???