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Posted March 3, 2010
Newsknife rates news sites on relevance (how),
based on our analysis of the main US-oriented Google
News site.
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The following are from our sample of 48,663 listings by 3599 sites
for 531 news items during 2010.
Featured rating:
Afghanistan coverage
Jan\Feb 2010
Afghanistan is a major news story of the moment. Newsknife has
found 2953 headlines from 494 news sites at Google News during January
and February 2010. You can see all (and link to many of) these headlines
in a ranked list in the Newsknife Members'
Area. This is a valuable news resource.
Here are 3 highlights from our rating of news sites for their coverage
of Afghanistan:
33 top Afghanistan
headlines in date order. We found these at Google News as
the first source for their particular Afghanistan news items.
Here are the top 12 sites we found as the first source for an Afghanistan-related
story. For example, we found Wall Street Journal 7 times as the
first source...
1 Wall Street Journal 7
2 New York Times 5
3 Times
Online 5
4 Voice of America 3
5 BBC News 2
6 Washington
Post 2
7 ABC News 1
8 ABC Online 1
9 Aljazeera.net 1
10 CBS News 1
11 Christian
Science Monitor 1
12 Daily
Times 1
Here are the top 12 of the 494 sites we found as sources for Afghanistan
stories, on the Google News home page and up to 10 sub-pages deep.
For example, we found 107 BBC headlines about Afghanistan...
1 BBC News 107
2 AFP 101
3 Times
Online 80
4 Telegraph.co.uk 82
5 The Guardian 70
6 New York Times 63
7 Wall Street Journal 55
8 The Associated Press 72
9 Voice of America 54
10 Reuters 53
11 Financial Times 53
12 The Hindu 46
You can see all Newsknife's ratings in depth in the Newsknife Members'
Area, including our list of 494 news sites ranked for, and
showing, their Afghanistan-related headlines. Click now at the left
of this page to join.
Our standard monthly ratings:
Top Blogs
Blogs found on Google News home page + 10 sub-pages deep. Rated
by volume + Google News relevance ranking. Blogs listed here may
link to one of many blogs at that site. Visit the Newsknife Members'
Area to see the full list of blogs and blog headlines
February:
375 blogs and their 3341 blog headlines found at Google News:
1 Huffington Post (blog) 325
2 CBS News (blog) 143
3 FOXNews (blog) 139
4 New York Times (blog) 139
5 Washington
Post (blog) 138
6 The Hill (blog) 117
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 23 and 31 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
February only:
1 3 5 Wall
Street Journal, NY
2 2 2 ABC
News
3 3 0 FOX
News
4 1 3 USA
Today
5 2 1 Times
Online, UK
6 2 0 CBS
News
Year to March :
1 6 8 Wall
Street Journal, NY
2 6 4 FOX
News
3 5 4 Washington
Post
4 2 6 Reuters
5 2 5 ABC
News
6 3 2 Voice
of America
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 51 and 68 sites
are in the Newsknife Members' Area.
February only:
1 24 Wall
Street Journal
2 19 New
York Times
3 17 Reuters
4 13 Times
Online, UK
5 12 Los
Angeles Times
6 11 CNN
Year to March :
1 48 Reuters
2 47 Wall
Street Journal
3 45 Washington
Post
4 41 New
York Times
5 31 FOX
News
6 28 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 Al-Jazeera 4 times on the home page of Google
News as the first source for a news item through to 4 times as the
7th source. The full lists of 288 and 496 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
February only:
1 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
4 69 3 2 3 3 4
2 Reuters
17 9 15 23 7 7 9
3 New
York Times
19 10 10 20 10 7 4
4 Washington
Post
5 Wall
Street Journal, NY
6 Los
Angeles Times, CA
Year to March :
1 Al-Jazeera, Qatar
8 174 7 8 11 8 10
2 Reuters
48 19 29 35 18 14 21
3 Washington
Post
45 25 33 18 22 20 20
4 New
York Times
5 Wall
Street Journal, NY
6 The
Associated Press
Master subpage sources
If you click to see all the articles for any Google News story
you'll find a master subpage that usefully gathers listings into
groups. This table shows the number of appearances per site that
Newsknife found on master subpages last month as a source for major
news items.
We found Washington Post 13 times as the first source there through
to 2 times as the 6th source. In total we found them 266 times on
master subpages. The full list of 565 sites is in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
February only:
1 Washington
Post
13 10 11 5 6 2 266
2 Wall
Street Journal, NY
13 12 14 11 5 10 190
3 New
York Times
8 9 7 7 12 10 223
4 Reuters
5 Huffington
Post, NY
6 Los
Angeles Times, CA
Home page + 10 sub-pages sources
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This list shows the total number of appearances we observed for
each site. Detailed lists of the top 200 sites are in the Newsknife
Members' Area.
February only:
1 Washington Post 687
2 New York Times 600
3 Reuters 559
4 Wall Street Journal 502
5 AFP 480
6 Los Angeles Times 401
Year to March :
1 Washington Post 1484
2 New York Times 1176
3 Reuters 1102
4 Wall Street Journal 983
5 AFP 917
6 BBC News, UK 765
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 149 sites is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Feb: % HOME TOTAL
1 26.59 88 331 Al-Jazeera
2 25.00 3 12 Boston
Channel.com
3 23.53 4 17 WNYC
4 23.53 4 17 Bizjournals.com
5 23.08 6 26 Houston
Chronicle
6 21.43 3 14 Buffalo
News
% increase on Google News home page
Column 1 shows appearances that Newsknife found on Google News
home page year to date pre-February. Column 2 is appearances found
during February. Column 3 is the % increase for February. The full
list is in the Newsknife Members' Area.
Year thru
Jan FEB %
12 20 167 Miami
Herald, FL
16 20 125 New
York Daily News
12 15 125 MSNBC
31 35 113 BusinessWeek
52 57 110 Christian Science Monitor
29 31 107 Xinhua,
China
New sites found last month
Newsknife noted 155 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.
(The list may include existing sites with major new addresses.)
February:
1 5 83 AOL
News
2 0 26 Ukrainian
News Agency
3 0 17 NY
Breaking News.com
4 0 13 Arirang
News
5 0 9 Capitol
News Connection (blog)
6 0 9 Breaking
Global News
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