News Pages

[Believe]

Hey guys,

So I am adding a news section to my site, I was going to make it so every news article will feature on .com/news but also part of it would feature on the index.html part of my site.

Is this a good idea? Does Google realize I am updating my site frequently, especially the index page changing. Or is just having it located at .com/news suffice?

Thanks!

[Christiaan]

Google will realize it. If you update a page frequently, Google will check it more. The more you update the more Google will check it.

You should have 1 page with a overview of all news, the index page like you said is good. Google will check that page more frequent and find the links to the full article on /news

[Believe]

Thanks for the response,

I was thinking of having a paragraph that would have a portion of the latest news article on the index page, then /news would have all the articles and obviously each news article has its own page. Or is this too much duplicate text throughout the site?

Thanks!

[edgarf76]

If you write extremely good content it may go into the google news. There was a time I had myself on a google alert for a keyphrase and I opened the email and saw my site there. I was shocked, I started to think about what I did differently with this article than others. The first thing is there was no direct affiliate link in that post. The other thing is I was just writing freely, not to target a keyphrase but just descriptions of the setting of the situation. The more I read the bettor I can write, There is a fiction author that I like, Nelson Demille who is extremely descriptive.

[Believe]

Thanks for the reply.

Didn't really answer my question about whether having a short "teaser" of the latest article in my index file is a good idea or not

[edgarf76]

Thanks for the reply.

Didn't really answer my question about whether having a short "teaser" of the latest article in my index file is a good idea or not

Not 100% about it so I don't want to say yes or no. I would say you do not need to but it could help.

[Christiaan]

Thanks for the reply.

Didn't really answer my question about whether having a short "teaser" of the latest article in my index file is a good idea or not

I don't think it is a problem to have a teaser at your index page. I always have a teaser, most of the times the first paragraph, as a teaser. Almost everyone has. That is how the CMS systems like Wordpress work. And Google knows that.

[edgarf76]

Does anyone have a recomendation for a wordpress plugin for my static front page such as a slider with a recent postings. Kind of like how oddsshark.com has (Not sure if it is wordpress based)

[universal4]

I haven't used this one yet, but looking at it, it appears to cover your needs.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-posts-slider/

If anyone has any others to recommend, please do so.

Rick
Universal4

[sweetbet]

Does Google realize I am updating my site frequently, especially the index page changing. Or is just having it located at .com/news suffice?

A sitemap might get your posts/pages indexed faster.

[Believe]

Yeh I have a sitemap, and have submitted it to google.
Do I need an actual link saying sitemap on my site or just submitting it is enough?

[sweetbet]

Submitting it to google is enough.

I've also listed my sitemap on my robots.txt file so that other search engines can find it.

User-agent: *
SITEMAP: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Having a small link to your sitemap file from your homepage is also another option