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Posted September 1, 2006.
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of the main Google
News site.
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These ratings are based on our sample of 341,943 individual site
listings at Google News by 4103 sites for 1240 news items during
year to date 2006.
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Top sources for the 2 Top Stories
Dominating the Google News home page when you first view it are
their two "Top Stories". And dominating these are the
two news sites listed as their first sources. This is the best exposure
a news site could aim for.
The columns in the lists below are ranking, appearances noted by
Newsknife as No.1 source in the first Top Story, and the second
Top Story. The full lists of 24 and 126 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
August only:
1 2 1 Forbes
2 1 3 Reuters
3 2 1 New
York Times
4 1 1 Boston
Globe, MA
5 1 1 BBC
News, UK
6 1 0 NewsHour
Extra
Year to date:
1 35 24 ABC
News
2 17 12 Bloomberg
3 11 10 Reuters
4 10 11 Forbes
5 5 13 Christian Science Monitor
6 8 6 The
Mercury News, CA
No. 1 sources
Google News usually lists seven news sites per major news item
on their home page and thirty on each sub-page, all "sorted
by relevance". We award each site points per appearance on
a sliding scale (with occasional tweaking) to get the ranked positions.
The second column is the number of appearances we recorded as the
first source for a news item. The full lists of 75 and 361 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
August only:
1 9 Houston
Chronicle, TX
2 8 Forbes
3 8 Reuters
4 8 Washington
Post
5 8 New
York Times
6 7 Boston
Globe, MA
Year to date:
1 182 ABC
News
2 146 Reuters
3 142 New
York Times
4 110 Washington
Post
5 93 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
6 90 Times
Online, UK
Home page sources
This table shows the number of appearances per site that Newsknife
found on the home page of Google News as source 1 to 7 for major
news items.
Last month we found Forbes 8 times on the home page of Google News
as the first source for a news item, 8 times as the second source,
through to 2 times as the 7th source. The full lists of 384 and
1372 sites are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Last month ABC News swept all Newsknife's major ratings. Bloomberg
have knocked them off our home page rating top spot during May.
August only:
1 Forbes
8 8 9 3 4 0 2
2 Washington
Post
8 6 3 5 5 2 3
3 BBC
News, UK
4 7 4 6 5 5 3
4 New
York Times
5 Reuters
6 CNN
Year to date:
1 ABC
News
182 129 118 88 103 90 69
2 Reuters
146 110 88 95 74 84 56
3 New
York Times
142 91 96 76 89 76 76
4 Guardian
Unlimited, UK
5 Washington
Post
6 Bloomberg
Home page + 10 sub-pages sources
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This list shows the total number of appearances we observed for
each site. The full lists of 1615 and 4103 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
August only:
1 ABC News 822
2 Houston Chronicle, TX
721
3 Forbes 699
4 Washington Post 516
5 BBC News, UK 459
6 Reuters 450
Year to date:
1 ABC News 17920
2 Guardian Unlimited, UK
11608
3 Reuters 8807
4 BBC News, UK 7326
5 Washington Post 7012
6 Xinhua, China
6584
Most appearances on home page as % of site total
To get maximum traffic to your news site from Google News you need
to get as many as possible of your listings onto their home page.
Newsknife monitors listings on Google News home page and 10 sub-pages
deep.
This table shows appearances Newsknife found at Google News during
the month. It shows the % and number we found on the home page and
the combined total for the home and 10 sub-pages. The full list
of 253 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Aug: % HOME TOTAL
1 25.00 3 12 CounterPunch, CA
2 22.39 15 67 Christian Science Monitor
3 20.00 3 15 The
Tribune, India
4 17.65 3 17 Louisville
Courier Journal
5 16.67 3 18 Columbus
Ledger-Enquirer
6 16.00 4 25 Special
Broadcasting Service
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-August. Column 2 is appearances found
during August. Column 3 is the % increase for August. The full list
is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
July AUG
23 7 30 KWTX, TX
17 5 29 Fort
Worth Star Telegram, TX
20 5 25 Brocktown
News, US
41 9 22 Hindu, India
19 4 21 Dallas Morning News
27 5 19 Khaleej
Times, Arab Emirates
52 10 19 All
Headlines News
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 130 sites for the first time at Google News during
last month. Here are the Top 6 ranked by volume found. The columns
of the list are rank, home page appearances, total appearances.
August:
1 0 15 Dunton
Springs Evening Post,CO
2 1 11 Caribbean360.com, Barbados
3 0 8 Sun-Sentinel.com, FL
4 0 8 Metro Cafe, UK
5 0 7 StTammany.com, Louisianna
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