Google News representatives have published a series of Google News Publisher FAQs in the Google News Help Forums the other day.
Harvey from the Google News team said:
Here are the FAQs:
Answer: How do I get included in Google News?
Answer: How long will it take?
Answer: Why aren’t my articles being crawled?
Answer: Why do my articles have the wrong headline?
Answer: What is the “unique urls” or “3 digit” rule?
Answer: Can I be crawled if my site has robots?
Answer: If my site is subscription based, can I still be crawled?
Answer: Why does my sitemap receive the “Unexpected publication name error?
Answer: Should I submit a News Sitemap?
Answer: How do I get author names to appear?
Answer: If I submit a News Sitemap, will Google News stop crawling my regular section pages?
Answer: Article fragmented? Article too short? Article too long? What do these error messages mean?
Answer: How often does Google News crawl my sitemap?
Answer: How can I get credit for my site’s original content?
I am very happy Google put this together! Thanks!
Forum discussion at Google News Help.
Note: This story was written earlier this week and scheduled to be published today.