How come my stories end up on bbc news

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi, i get a load of traffic from the bbc news website but not sure how this happens.

For example we had a story the other day and according to my reports the traffic was coming from this page. http://www.bbc.co.uk//news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-21232826

but when i checked today to see the page i can see nothing about our story. BBC news has been really good to us for feeding us traffic but i am not sure how this happens as if i did then i would try and get all our stories seen by them.

Any help would be great in understanding how bbc news is picking up our stories

[danatanseo]

Wow! Diane, I am sure there are a lot of SEOs dying to know your secret to this one? Myself included.

Is it possible that you are producing an RSS feed of your content that the BBC News is picking up and then including in their RSS feed? Just a thought.

Here's an example: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=uk

Dana

[Unity]

Are you running Adwords?Could be paid advertising on BBC news website that is pushing traffic to your site.

In your traffic report have a look for that URL and filter by a secondary dimension of 'medium'. This will tell you if it is referral traffic or paid advertising. If it is referral then there is (or was) a link to your website on that page. If it is ppc (paid) then it is the Google Ads.

[danatanseo]

Yes, I had that thought too. Davinia makes a good point.

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi, i do not do any paid for advertising so it will not be that

[Unity]

Okay, then when you check for your URL on the page how are you doing that? Do you search for your URL in the source code? It would be good to locate exactly where on the page the URL is placed and from there you will have a better idea of how it's getting put there, or rather where to investigate next! The link might not be obvious on the front page, it could be an image link etc.

[ClaireH-184886]

i have tried looking in the source code but nothing there but i did not check on the day. I was not aware they have different stories on their site but what i have noticed is, it happens alot.

[Unity]

It maybe that they are adding your website under the article in the 'related internet links' section. Set up a Google Alert and you will get emailed when links appear on the website; then you might be able to locate them.

Private message me if you want to discuss further

[ClaireH-184886]

thanks for that, i will do on both accounts. Do not get me wrong it is nice to get the traffic from them, just strange that i do not understand how it happens