Well, after being unceremoniously dumped from Google News a few weeks back, it looks like we’re back in! I received an email today passing along the good news. Might take a couple of weeks, but pretty soon we should be searchable through the Google News continuous web-crawl, as well as Google’s less frequent one.
I wonder whether they’re letting all the other blogs back in, or whether my artful appeal (which was basically "hey, we’re not a ‘single individual’ site – there are three of us!") was what did it.
Please share widely!
It was your artful appeal. Others who read this blog will probably think it was because “right” was on your side. But we know better.
Congrats! I was just cruising through Google myself and thinking about your recent post about how one-person blogs got dumped. Boy is that true. I hope its not just the 3-person rationale that did it for our sakes but you deserve kudos on perservance.If you are willing to share – who do we contact to advocate for the small shop bloggers out here?
Michael: I don’t have a contact person at Google. All of my correspondence has been with an address called “source-suggestions@google.com” – that seems to be the address from which these decisions are made.