Ok, here is the situation. I was included as a source for Google News for exactly 12 hours almost two months ago. For some odd reason, all of Munuviana was added along with me. Since that time I've been trying to find why my site was dropped.
I'm on vacation, but was able to check my e-mail for the first time in a week and got this from Google News:
Hi Rusty,Any way to fix this so that each of my post headings are also hyperlinked to the permalink??Thank you for following up with us. After some investigation, we've found that our system cannot crawl some of your articles because your site's article headlines don't hyperlink to a page dedicated solely to that article. In order for our crawler to correctly gather articles, each article headline needs hyperlink to the article page.
Like I said, I'm on vacation in LA for the next week or so but might find some time to fix this. If you can e-mail me at mypetjawa@gmail.com if you know how I'd appreciate it.
Posted by Rusty at December 28, 2004 11:53 PMYep, that's easy.
Just change your template so that where you have the title it's enclosed in an appropriate link, something like this:
<a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>"><$MTEntryTitle$></a>
Posted by Pixy Misa at December 29, 2004 12:16 AMOh, and make sure that your preferred archive type is set to "individual". Which (poke poke) it is at the moment. But the Llamas for one... uh, two... aren't set up that way, so if it picks up all of Munuvia again it will hit the same problem.
Posted by Pixy Misa at December 29, 2004 12:21 AMWorked like a charm, thanks!!! And now Google News seems to have picked us up again. Let's hope it lasts longer than 48 hours this time.
Posted by Rusty at December 30, 2004 07:41 PMKewl! Now alls I gotta do is break some news! Some pork chops were left in the oven too long this evening resulting in a leathery dinner for local resident... naaaah.
Posted by Tuning Spork at December 31, 2004 05:21 AM