About a year ago this site was approved as a Google News site, based on the news reporting we do and the number of contributors. This helped our traffic enormously, and restored some of my self-esteem, as a guy who had made a living as a journalist for 33 years but was suddenly an amateur putting out a blog with dog pictures on it. Our url was philipweiss.org.
Then a few months back we did a redesign and changed the domain name to mondoweiss.net, and lo, we dropped off Google News. We’d failed to tell ‘em ahead of time. I have many times filed a change here, but Google seems to ignore us.
I suffer about this, I really want to be restored. Any advice?
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Phil,
I notice you have no ads on your page. Is that an executive decision on yours and Adam’s part? You do have the left column of margin space.
If you are willing to accept Google Ads, why not go thru Google AdSense and complain that you can’t and won’t apply for Google AdSense until your publisher status has been updated, that you fail to get a response from them. They can get through to the correct department and fix this when money is concerned.
Barring that, call their headquarters: Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Or call their New York office:
Google New York
76 Ninth Avenue
4th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Phone: +1 212-565-0000
Fax: +1 212-565-0001
Google New York
Chelsea Market Space
(mail cannot be received at this address)
75 Ninth Avenue
2nd and 4th Floors
New York, NY 10011
Phone: +1 212-565-0000
Fax: +1 212-565-0001
Hi Phil,
first…I sure don’t know what the hell I am talking about…but have you tried posting at the support forum? (and reading through teh q and a…there seem to be many technical details involved)
Phil, maybe an interim band-aid is to keep philipweiss.org connected as a forwarding URL. Not sure if the newsbots at Google News crawl the web using forwarding URLs, but it’s a 10 minute effort to have http://www.philipweiss.org forwarding to the mondoweiss.net site.
Its a conspiracy, I am sure of it.
Yoni,
They no longer supply Phil with a secret-cabal codeword for free media press, since he’s a self hater.
I just noticed . . . the URL does forward to mondoweiss.net. Very strange.
The google help for publishers says they need at least two weeks early warning notice before you change domain name; there’s nothing on the help site for when you don’t do this, which is your case, Phil. However there is a google help forum on the site and you can use your google ID to ask your question going to your situation. Somebody attending the forum might have had the same problem and found the solution. Another possibility
is since you did not give early notice, maybe somehow your old domain name is left in the google system, which generally works so the first domain is assumed to be correct–even though it no longer exists.
The technical requirements mention a rule about numbers in urls:
http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=68323
Articles should have unique 3 digit numbers in the url. This site uses year and month. From the google instructions I would conclude the urls of this site do not pass but maybe it’s a borderline case.
This number rule is odd. I looked up a few blogs via google news and some followed the numbers rule, others didn’t. Maybe for existing sites the rule is not enforced(and mondoweiss had to reregister). Maybe is yyyy/mm/dd considered good enough too.
They say the rule is waived with news sitemaps . Maybe since the number rule is not followed google news can only rely on the sitemap and maybe this site doesn’t have a news sitemap or there’s a syntax error in it.
We haven’t had too many dog pictures recently. More Phil-Weiss-ism please, we can’t be apartheid 24/7.
Suggest Mondoweiss to Google News here.
That pertains to google review of content to see if it’s acceptable to them, while Phil’s apparent problem has to do with technical programing and policy. OTH, maybe that’s a back door in to at least getting a response from google–Phil, you should try coMMenter’s url too–anything to get a response, huh?
I already did – as non owner.
Just curious but how much traffic does this site get?
This site is one of the most amazing sites I’ve seen on the net in terms of content and in commentators.
playboy.com is ok too
and don’t forget my favorite:
http://www.haredi-chicks-showing-ankle.com
Since that link doesn’t work, yonira, try this one on for size:
“Haredi Woman Allegedly Stole Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars”
http://z.pe/CNx
Oh the best haredi site is FailedMessiah.com
Everybody knows that. It’s for Jewish fundamentalists and the people who care about them.
You are correct, and this is despite especially anemic hasbara agents like yonira, and so many others who have eventually gone. The site is much too historically and currently informed and intelligent for them–their hasbara classes do not equip them for honest debate among aware caring people. It’s like they are only equipped to sell snake oil at the carnival to the rubes.
Since the zionists failed to conquer this site with words they resorted to even more devious practices though. I asked the kids if they had eaten the last cookies in the cookie jar and they said they didn’t. Which can only mean one thing…
Most of the same content (not the pieces posted by Phil and Adam of course) is at JSF. The comment section is sort of dull, the site owner bars bigots, liars and timewasters. Well, he lets me comment, but no blog is perfect.
Thanks folks. Much appreciated. Am going to be practical and hardheaded, as y’all are suggesting. Will do more dogpictures in near future.
Yeah, pick up the effing phone. :-)
phil, you can have both domains names point to the same site. there is no need to redirect. assign the same IP address to both domain names.
I also submitted…good luck!
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