We cannot include your site in Google News at this time because your articles are set up as posts or threads.

1. Set up your site in standard HTML format.

2. Each page that displays an article's full text needs a unique, static URL. We cannot include sites in Google News that display multiple articles from the same URL.

3. The URL for each article must contain a unique number consisting of at least three digits.

For example, our news crawler would not crawl these URLs: http://www.google.com/lemurs_in_the_mist.html
http://www.google.com/news/article23.html

It would crawl these pages: http://www.google.com/news/08112003/article.html
http://www.google.com/news/lemurs_in_the_mist/23467.html

4. Don't include a date in the URL. These URLs often change regularly. Since we're unable to detect the most current URL, we can't crawl the site for new content.

5. Create an HTML, text-based link structure. We are unable to crawl links pointing from graphics or embedded in JavaScript.

Hello Google News Team, I beg your pardon, but our news section is not posts and threads. Please check again... it was being crawled just fine before the 20th of july. The articles are in this format: http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/article_002718.php the main page is: http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/index.php Our threads and posts aka forums are located here: http://www.defencetalk.com/forums Please see here for previously crawled news articles on 19th and before: http://news.google.com/news?q=defencetalk&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-20,GGLG:en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d Please reconsider. Thank You,

We cannot include your site in Google News at this time because your articles are set up as posts or threads.

1. Set up your site in standard HTML format.

2. Each page that displays an article's full text needs a unique, static URL. We cannot include sites in Google News that display multiple articles from the same URL.

3. The URL for each article must contain a unique number consisting of at least three digits.

For example, our news crawler would not crawl these URLs: http://www.google.com/lemurs_in_the_mist.html
http://www.google.com/news/article23.html

It would crawl these pages: http://www.google.com/news/08112003/article.html
http://www.google.com/news/lemurs_in_the_mist/23467.html

4. Don't include a date in the URL. These URLs often change regularly. Since we're unable to detect the most current URL, we can't crawl the site for new content.

5. Create an HTML, text-based link structure. We are unable to crawl links pointing from graphics or embedded in JavaScript.

Thank you Cliff

I have started making the changes you outlined however many of the articles published have file names specified in the Filename field on the article page. Is there an easy way to wipe out the individual file names assigned to each article so they go back to the default name article manager generates or do I have to edit each individual article to remove them?

Also should the "Publish URL" field value change to equal the "Publish Dir" value?

Looking forward to your reply.

Thank you

Scott