> Hi!
> We had the same problem after we made som changes in our design.
> Researched till my fingers and eyes bled, without any luck, until I
> comparred our site to another similar news site. It turned out, our
> design structure lacked a clear definition of where the actual
> articles bodytext ended and the extra functions(comments, factboxes
> and so on) started. Once I fixed that, i.e. clearly defining title,
> preamble and bodytext with separate div-elements, our articles began
> reappering on the newslist again.
> Hope this helps you, I know it can be frustrating.
> On Nov 15, 2:12 am, signonorama wrote:
> > I recently posted this inquiry in another discussion forum (before I
> > knew about this one):
> > About a month ago Google News stopped picking up our news articles. We
> > recently moved to a new CMS and our URL format has changed. No, we are
> > not yet using a sitemap (and we never have before), but hope to do so
> > soon.
> > Here is an example of our old URL format -http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/20080501-1612-bn01bavasi.html.
> > Here is an example of our new URL format -http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2008/nov/13/padres-towers-broa...
> > I've repeatedly told our technical and content crews that we need to
> > place our content in appropriate folders within our site architecture
> > and that we need to go back to using a unique 3- or 4-digit number for
> > each article, but...
> > So my question is, is that really the problem or is there anything
> > else I'm overlooking.
> > =====
> > I received a reply telling me that yes, we needed to get that unique
> > 3-
> > digit number in there. However, shortly thereafter one of my IT folks
> > noticed that another newspaper's site is being crawled and indexed in
> > Google News that uses the same URL structure that we are. No unique 3-
> > or 4-digit number. So...now I'm not sure what the deal is.
> > Again, here is an example of our new URLs -http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2008/nov/13/padres-towers-broa...
> > And here is an example from the Lawrence Journal -http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/nov/05/captains_comeback/?sports
> > I would really appreciate any feedback or insight I can get about
> > this. Thanks!
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