Top News Sites at Google News? Ask Newsknife

About Newsknife: Every month we rate the world's top news sites for quality (how), to help news sites improve their performance at Google News.

Ratings @ May 1


We rated newspaper sites 18 months ago.

Things have changed.

Newsknife monitors Google News regularly. In 2006 we rated U.S. newspaper web sites we found there. Things have changed since then. Consider the effect of Associated Press appearances at Google News.
See Newsknife's latest newspaper-related ratings...

...plus this month's standard ratings

Also see: Blogs at Google News

Site last updated: May 2, 2008.

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* Individual site profiles
* Tips for Google success
* Google algorithm watch

SITE PROFILES
Newsknife brings all our information on each news site together in a convenient in-depth Site Profile, including indicating shifts in site performance.

See a sample profile here. See all the profiles in the Members' Area.

TIPS FOR SUCCESS AT GOOGLE NEWS
We link to information that could improve your site's ratings at Google News. (Updated April 2008) More...

We recommend the official Google News blog

GOOGLE ALGORITHM WATCH
We compare the performance of news sites over time to see if we can spot changes in fortune. Maybe Google News have changed their relevance algorithm? (Updated November 2007) More...

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Archived ratings
* Jan - Strong newcomers in 2007
* Feb - Super Tuesday special
* Mar - Blogs at Google News
* Apr - Iraq news over 5 years
2007:
* Jan - Strong newcomers in 2006
* Feb - Iraq debate
* Mar - Google Algorithm update
* Apr - Top US states news sources
* May - Virginia Tech world reports
* June - Top headlines
* July - Environment news resource
* Aug - Major sites - since 2004
* Sep - pre-wire services benchmark
* Oct - Wire services first month
* Nov - Wire services second month
* Top News Sites of 2007
2006:
* Jan - Significant rating fluctuations
* Feb - Forbes still strong
* Mar - Stable sites. Google changes
* Apr - New sites each month
* May - ABC News tops all ratings
* June - Google News subpage heroes
* July - 12 month trends
* Aug - Forbes ruled July
* Sep - Lebanon-Israel conflict
* Oct - 100 top U.S. newspaper sites
* Nov - U.S. election week, 2006
* Top News Sites of 2006
2005:
* Forbes fantastic December
* Top news sites of 2005
* London bombings
* Africa
* Putin, Russia, ex-USSR
* The Papal Succession
* Lebanon-Syria unrest
* George Bush in Europe
* The Iraq election

"GOOGLE NEWS SUCCESS TIP"

Check out the in-depth site profiles in Newsknife's Members' Area.
You'll see individual listings we found at Google News for your site (and competing sites) last month.
Click through to stories that ranked highly and poorly, and see if you can figure what works at Google News and what doesn't, (reporter attribution? layout? story length?).
Try publishing a few stories incorporating what you think might work. Newsknife could help by monitoring Google News to see if your "new look" stories rate higher than expected.

More tips...

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Top U.S. newspaper-related
sites year-to-May, 2008

1 Associated Press
2 New York Times
3 Washington Post
4 Los Angeles Times
5 USA Today
6 Boston Globe

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