Carwling and indexing problems

[ClaireH-184886]

hi, i have noticed since my site was upgraded that google is taking a long time to publish my articles. before the upgrade google would publish the article straight away, but now it takes an average of around 4 days.

the article i am talking about at the moment is here

http://www.in2town.co.uk/celebrities-in-the-news/stuart-hall-has-his-prison-sentence-for-sex-crimes-doubled-to-30-months

now i have a blog here on blogger and the article was picked up within six mins

http://showbizgossipandnews.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/stuart-hall-has-his-prison-sentence-for.html

so i am just wondering what the problem is and what i need to solve this

my problem is, my site is mostly a news site so it is no good to me if google is publishing new stories every four days, any help would be great.

[Raydon]

Is your on-site SEO tags for Google news setup? Are you in Google news program?

I don't know why exactly Google's crawl rate changes, but that is something mostly out of your control or anyone else's. But I have seen this happen with site switches where before on a php site the blog post would be indexed within minutes to hours and now, a lot of changes take a lot longer to be reflected. mind you this is a #1 ranking site too for its niche.

have a look at these, make sure your on-site tags are all good and apply to google news.

http://searchengineland.com/library/google/google-news-keywords-tag

also, have you submitted a new sitemap to GWT since the update to site?

other things to consider:

blogger is a google service, they get priority clearance anyway

blogger ha a huge domain authority, your site doesn't

blogger gets millions of visits a day, your website will never

perhaps you can come up with a way to use the above 3 points to your advantage. run a canonical version of the site on a blog, get it indexed, get your links exposed and overtime, google will figure out that it needs to crawl your site rather fast.