Google News we were dropped and need help finding ot why

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi i have a site called in2town lifestyle magazine http://www.in2town.co.uk/ and up until two months ago we were with google news and for a long time. But then all of a sudden we were dropped which left us with no confidence about our site and led us to make changes to the site, some good and some bad to try and find out what was wrong with our site and why we were dropped.

We have now been concentrating on sorting the site out which has led in a drop in traffic due to not updating it as we should because we are more concerned in trying to make it a quality lifestyle magazine and get back in google as well as making it a good experience for our readers..

I would like your help and finding out what you feel is wrong with our site so we can then work on it and change it and try and find out what went wrong with google news.

we have spent years on the site but now we have gone in the wrong direction because we were more worried about google news.

If you can advise us on how we should change the site and sort the site out and make it into the professional site it was once more then that would be great.

[EGOL]

If you have been dropped by google news it is possible that you were not a qualified news site publishing in their recommended format.  You need to...

• be a "news organization"

• have multiple authors

• be the original source for any images, text, videos, etc. displayed on your site

• have URLs in their recommended format

[IPINGlobal54]

In addition to EGOL on the news front, your news needs to be unique. Aggregate or scraped news won't last long in google.

With respect to the site, are you dealing with duplicate content? After taking a large phrase from a new news item and wrapping it in quotes, the SERP page shows a large number of pages with different titles/urls.

Without knowing how your site is structured it's a bit difficult to give specific advice, but run the SEOmoz custom crawler over your site and see how much duplicate content you have or are creating.