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2 responses to “Aggregators, wikis and a bit of BBC/CNN: how we mix our own news”

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   Heather Hopkins

   March 8, 2007 at 9:21 am

   Antony, Thanks for picking up on this post.

   I agree with you that Xinhua likely rose as a result of Google News results. On 30th December 2006, the top four sources of visits to Xinhua were Google properties:
   – Google UK: 45.59% of upstream visits
   – Google News UK: 11.76%
   – Google.com 7.35%
   – Google Image Search 5.88%

   We can’t be sure what people were clicking on in the Google UK SERP that day, but my guess is that it was the Google News shortcut at the top of the page.

   Also interesting, I have since noticed Xinhua among Google News Results, especially for images. They seem to do extremely well for optimising their site for Google News crawlers. Anyone trying to get traffic from Google News might want to check out what Xinhua is doing right.

   Heather

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   Antony Mayfield

   March 8, 2007 at 9:36 am

   Excellent advice, Heather – I’ll be taking a very close look indeed.