Hi zoomer,
As usual, bignews has a really helpful suggestion, and Maile's post
has some great detail about how News Sitemaps work.
I do have one other idea, however. As you might be aware, ordinarily,
Google News doesn't crawl articles whose URLs don't have 3 digits in
them. See here for more information on that rule:
http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=68323
So if you'd like to prevent articles or pages from being included in
Google News, and you can't use robots.txt, you can just make sure that
their URLs don't have 3 digits.
Finally, if you're unable to change only some of your URLs to include
3 digits, you should know that articles submitted via News Sitemaps
can have URLs without any digits at all, and they'll still be included
in News.
Hope this helps,
Abe
On Jul 21, 2:22 pm, bignews.biz wrote:
> This thread might help.
http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Sitemap/browse_t...
> On Jul 11, 6:51 am, zoomer wrote:
> > hi,
> > i wonder what happens if i submit a news-sitemap. will google news
> > stop crawling then and only use the sitemap?
> > background: i have some parts on my site, where i don't have the right
> > to publish them for any other use than on the website. the owner of
> > the rights doesn't want his content in google news via my site. which
> > is ok.
> > excepting that part with robots.txt is no solution, because the web-
> > crawler would find it either.
> > so it would be great if google-news would only take articles in the
> > sitemap which would be the ones we are allowed to publish to google.
> > crawling would be fatal.
> > so what about news-sitemap? am i on the right trail?
> > thanks for any hint
> > zoomer
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