I don’t know how it would have been picked up for Google News. It isn’t something I actively tried to do. I’d be interested to know what search terms you used to have it come up.

On your Martial Arts site, I’d recommend that you focus it more tightly on selling the Martialarm product. With the Adsense and other links you distract users from the objective, buying the item. If you want to promote multiple products, use a blog and feature products in your posts.

Can I ask though - how did you get this picked up and into google news?

Very impressive that this blog is syndicated through Google and is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created?

Obviously this is a popular blog with great data so well done on your seo success..

It’s the same page so far as Google is concerned. What it looks like is that you’ve updated an existing page which brings Googlebot running, most of the time.

is that not an issue or am I over-thinking it?

wayne

Google has defined the game and we’re all just players in it. One of the main things that Google values is steady activity over a long period of time. There are several strategies that work, some manual and some automated, and there is no indication that Google penalizes sites that do automated minor updates to existing pages, even for something as small as a date change.

As long as your content would pass a visual content inspection by a Wii Playing Cappuccino Sipper, uh, Google employee, recycling should not be a problem. Now, if you’re dealing in auto-generated nonsense Markov pages, it would be a different matter.

Also, I wouldn’t recommend this plugin for a social blog where you had regular readers in addition to search visitors. However, there are other, similar, plugins that cycle links to featured articles to the front page and so forth that would work well in this context.

The idea is to ping Google Blog search and other update services regularly to give the illusion of activity and insure frequent crawls. Having other auto refreshing elements like PHPBay, Ad Rotator, Related Posts and so forth would feed into this as well. The goal is to have what looks like a very active website to bots and search visitors although it’s actually on auto-pilot.

I don’t think that it will be a problem if you don’t go ping crazy with it. If you started pinging the ‘bot every hour it might be a problem. Just doing it every day or so shouldn’t raise any flags. That’s also why I’d suggest only doing it on a blog with at least 30 days of content.

The only thing that might be a footprint would be that it would happen at the same time everyday with the same pattern of posts. While some randomization in the plugin would be nice, just manually breaking up the flow every so often should be fine.

So far as adding new content, it would be added to the list at the top and would move down until it recycled as well.