A WebmasterWorld thread has one Google News publisher thinking that the stories on his site that were syndicated in Google News tend to have a lower organic ranking in Google’s web search results.

He said:

Now, this site is in Google News and I’ve always felt our stories don’t rank in the web search results as high as they should. I’ve always assumed it had to do with our penalty and not because of how Google may treat news publishers in organic rankings.

To be honest, I find it hard to believe Google wouldn’t rank a well researched article in the organic results because it is a news site.

Tedster, WebmasterWorld’s administrator, said:

So clearly, he concurs with that assessment. Do you?

Matt Cutts tweeted about this:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

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