Thursday, August 25, 2011<\/p>\n
\n \n Google News recently updated our infrastructure to crawl with Google’s primary user-agent, \n Our Help Center provides detailed \n As with any website, from time to time we need to make updates to our infrastructure. At the same Thursday, August 25, 2011 Cross-posted on the Google News Blog Google News recently updated our infrastructure to crawl with Google’s primary user-agent, Googlebot. What does this mean? Very little to most publishers. Any news organizations that wish to opt out of Google News can continue to do so: Google News will still respect the robots.txt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":84789,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[665],"ar_kb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-24572","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=24572"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=24572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Cross-posted on the
\n Google News Blog<\/a>
\n <\/i>\n<\/p>\n
\n Googlebot<\/a>.
\n What does this mean? Very little to most publishers. Any news organizations that wish to opt out
\n of Google News can continue to do so: Google News will still respect the robots.txt entry for
\n Googlebot-News<\/a>, our former user-agent,
\n if it is more restrictive than the robots.txt entry for Googlebot.\n<\/p>\n
\n guidance<\/a>
\n on using the robots exclusion protocol for Google News, and publishers can contact the
\n Google News Support Team<\/a>
\n if they have any questions, but we wanted to first clarify the following:\n<\/p>\n\n
\n the appearance of Googlebot instead of Googlebot-News is independent of our inclusion policies.
\n (You can always check whether your site is included in Google News by searching with the “site:”
\n operator. For instance, enter “site:yournewssite.com” in the search field for Google News, and
\n if you see results then we are currently indexing your news site.)\n <\/li>\n
\n Google Search and traffic coming from Google News, so you should see no changes there.
\n The main difference is that you will no longer see occasional automated visits to your site
\n from the Googlebot-news crawler.\n <\/li>\n
\n guidelines for Googlebot<\/a>,
\n you will not need to make any code changes to your site. Sites that have implemented
\n subscriptions using a metered model or who have implemented
\n First Click Free<\/span><\/a>
\n will not experience any changes. For sites which require registration, payment or login prior to
\n reading any full article, Google News will only be able to crawl and index the title and snippet
\n that you show all users who visit your page. Our
\n Webmaster Guidelines<\/a>
\n provide additional information about
\n “cloaking<\/a>”
\n (that is, showing a bot a different version than what users experience). Learn more about Google
\n News and subscription publishers in this
\n Help Center article<\/a>.\n <\/li>\n
\n Sitemaps. If you are a News publisher who hasn’t yet set up a News Sitemap and are interested in
\n getting started, please follow our
\n documentation about Google News<\/a>.\n <\/li>\n
\n disallow Googlebot-news and allow Googlebot. For more information on how to do this, consult our
\n documentation about robots.txt<\/a>.\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n time, we want to continue to provide as much control as possible to news web sites. We hope we
\n have answered any questions you might have about this update. If you have additional questions,
\n please check out our
\n Help Center<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n