Google fails to pick out the correct URL of the story

[Liammcmullen]

Hi ,

I have a page with many news storeys on it.

Google craws the page but it picks up a more general url even though  I've embedded the  direct URL within anchor tags around the headline .

The snippet below got  linked by Google to http://www.irishnews.com/

Any idea how i can get Google to pick-up http://www.irishnews.com/news.aspx?storyId=1180708 would be very welcome

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[tomcraig86]

Is Google indexing all of the news pages individually. If they are all indexed, then what we can do is make it so that the individual page is more relevant than the news archive page. I'd suggest removing the h2 tag from around the news title, and replacing it with another inline element such a span. This would make the index page less relevant for your title term. Then make sure your individual news article headline is a h1 to make that the most relevant. Other than that, I'd just go through all of the on page optimisation check lists on SEOMoz and make sure everything is in order. Ultimately you can't choose what Google will show for you, but you can influence it. I'll have a look at your site when I'm on my computer to see whether I can suggest some more changes for you

[Liammcmullen]

thanks tom  - your points make sense and i've implymented them. would welcome any more advice re  this site.

all the best

Liam