Google News Format Problems

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Odd...they changed their format recently? Ok will look into this.

Here are the links to some information. They say you have six months to upgrade the format but they don't say from when:

http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-face-to-google-news-sitem...

http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=161989

Ok I just committed support for the new format to CVS. Once the 6.x-1.x-dev build is regenerated, please give it a try and let me know if it works properly.

hi
i tried it today, the sitemap seems to be accepted but I get a new error:

Unexpected publication name
The publication name specified in your Sitemap does not match the publication name we have for your site in our database. Please check that the publication name in your Sitemap exactly matches the publication name displayed for your articles in Google News.

In Google News the site name is Stan James Betting News and the author name is Stan James.

All my articles are posted with the author name Stan James in Drupal.

I changed the User name in Drupal to Stan James Betting News so they all appeared from that author but the site map still displayed "Stan James".

<n:publication>
<n:name>Stan James</n:name>
<n:language>en</n:language>
</n:publication>

What variable is n:name populated with?

Many Thanks
Simon

fixed it.. just had to change Site Name in 'Site Information'
google has now accepted the sitemap!
many thanks!!

Yeah, that is taken from the 'Site name' variable in admin/settings/site-information.

Subscribing.

The Dev version corrected the problem for my website.

Created new releases with the updated code. Thanks everyone for testing.

I hope this is the correct place for this...

For those getting this message from google you have several options. Our problem was the name originally submitted to google news was Mass Device Blogs - while we have blogs we are a news journal and our branding name is MassDevice (as seen in the page titles). I could have easily used the first suggestion below but as you know google takes it's time and ours... So my short term solution was to grab the name from some other variable set in Site Information. Here are some options I came across when figuring out what to do - I hope they help.

• Your best option is to change the name to your preffered branding name in google WebMaster Tools /support
  
  http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/request.py?contact_type=repor...

OR

• Change you site name in site information to match what your search results on new.google.com Search: site:www.mySite.com - you registered site name is gray text.

OR

• If you don't want to change the name of your site (for obvious branding reasons - will changes all your page titles). And like us didn't want to lose 1–30 days of your sitemap erroring when slurped. Do the following;
  • Use one of the other fields from the site information in admin/settings/site-information - I used the mission statement since we don't use that anywhere on the site.
  • You then have to replace line 58 in the most recent googlenews.module to
    $content .= '
    ' . variable_get('site_mission', 'Drupal') . '';
  • change site_name to site_mission to call in this data from the site mission table.

This seemed to work for us to synch the googlenews.xml site map site name to the name that google has on record. It may be that the change request form above will eventually be linked to the dB from google so changes take effect immediately, but i doubt that's the case right now.

Dave, I hope you can endorse this temporary work around. Also, if we had money we'd be sending some your way - some day. Thanks for the great module!

@mknapp: See #645786: Small Request about Site Name

Google doesn't accept this site map but accepted Rss feed. The error said that this site is not in our database. What could be the reason>