I’ve set up fledgling aternative to NewsNow and I’m looking for good sites to include for each team and some with general footy chat.

It’s over at http://www.footballnewsnow.co.uk

Feel free to submit sites to me and if they’re any good I’ll get them up onto the site for you.

Cheers, Paul.

Best thing to do is to follow the instructions on this page.

I am one of the authors of Avenell Road, and would like to use newsnow to attract Gooners to the site, to have reasoned debate about Arsenal FC – the owner of the site has made may attempts – how do we get this sorted out please

HELP

I wonder if you might be able to help identify why my site (Just-Football) has still not been indexed on NewsNow. I have submitted the site for inclusion twice now without any joy.

My suspicion is that section 4 entitled ‘Maximise your articles’ exposure’ is perhaps not properly organised on my site. I use Blogger, and in section 4 on Newsnow it says you have to edit your website templates as follows:

1. should follow the headline but immediately precede the first paragraph of the article
2. should immediately follow the last paragraph of the article.

Is this something you have to edit in the HTML template on Blogger, or is it only relevant if you do not have an RSS Feed for posts?

I am struggling to understand why twice I have not made it on there. I will re-submit one more time I think, but having come across this site and article thought I would ask if you perhaps knew why and could help.

Thanks, and keep up the good work here and on Soccerlens.
Jonathan.

NewsNow can sometimes seem like the holy grail for blogs and footie sites but I myself must hold my hands up and say that more often than not I am in browsing mode when using it. I very rarely follow a link elsewhere once onto a site or often don’t even read the article in full.

I generally use NewsNow as a fact-finder, for example I was trying to figure out the Villa line-up against Pompey the other day as I didn’t believe the formation skysports.com’s match console claimed (I was right to doubt it, it had James Milner playing left back!).

Also, not sure if you already know this but your site doesn’t work on the Opera browser. If ever I click a link to caughtoffside.com I have to then open IE and copy and paste the address. Needless to say I rarely bother. Dunno how many other weirdos out there use Opera like me though

Mart

As someone whose website’s articles (caughtoffside.com) generally dominate Newsnow’s football sections, the best piece of advice I can give you is to focus your energy on other generators of traffic. Keep submitting to NN by all means, but if you’re serious about making a living from your blog then ‘easy’ traffic from NN is not really going to be a big help.

The readers from Newsnow are in a pure browsing mode, much like those from StumbleUpon. They aren’t going to stick around and they aren’t going to click on ads or sponsors. If you’re spending hours thinking about NN rather than growing your website properly, you’ll ultimately end up with a rather soulless website.

For Studs Up (www.studs-up.com), I’m deliberately avoiding Newsnow. I want real readers who visit my site because they like it, not because I came up with a catchy headline to lure them in.

Chris
CaughtOffside.com
Studs-Up.com

What do you think my chances are?

I’m having trouble getting into Newsnow any advice?