Tips To Get Listed In News Search Engines

According to Lee Odden at Top Rank Blog with news search engines gaining popularity, online marketers have a tremendous opportunity for gaining "visibility with consumers as well as those members of the media that research news stories, subject matter experts and press releases online."

Lee in the post "Getting Listed in News Search Engines" gives tips on getting visiblilty on top search engines like Yahoo! and Google. The tips given in the blog are :

* Research web sites that are already trusted news sources and work on getting your articles or press releases published with them. Either pitch the journalists of those sites with contributed articles or story ideas or engage them via comments if it’s a blog.

* Submit press releases though wire services such as Business Wire, PR Newswire, PRWeb or MarketWire that supply news. Not every release makes it through into Yahoo News so be sure to write a quality release offering news of real value. Include full urls in the release as most wire services and news search engines will convert this to an active link. This method is where press release optimization skills come into play. It’s a challenging task to write press releases that are both engaging to journalists and consumers as well as to search engines through proper use of keywords.
* Apply to become a trusted news source. If your site produces frequent, original content, and/or has multiple contributors and a clear editorial process, then you may qualify as a trusted news source. Here are the links to apply for Google News, Yahoo News and Topix.net.

* Apply to Google News – Suggest a news source
* Apply to Yahoo News – Suggest a local source or a source for news and blog search
* For Topix.net find the relevant news category and click on the “Feedback” link at the bottom of the page.

Lee further advices to read the guidelines provided and to submit only a "quality news source."

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