Has Johnston Press Digital Publishing looked at itself in google news?
November 5, 2008
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Fascinating news headlines: You need to have javascript enabled to view this ...
Following my recent post on the guardian and accessibility, I've discovered another newspaper group that seems to have given little thought to its reliance on javascript: Johnston Press Digital Publishing.
Check out how its pages appear in google news.
Surely you'd occasionally check how you appeared, and do something about this?
[...] Malcolm Coles asks a reasonable question of Johnston Press Digital Publishing: have they looked at their own pages in Google News? It seems a reliance on javascript is making their pages invisible to search engines. Written by Paul Bradshaw - Visit Website [...]
[...] a second post, Coles noted that Johnston Press Digital Publishing’s reliance on javascript meant that a [...]
Hi Malcolm
Many thanks for raising what is an important issue and one that we are aware of and working on. However I need to put this in context as to the scale of the issue.
- Number of JP stories indexed incorrectly in this way: 375
- Number of JP stories indexed by Google News: well over 100k, 7k+ from Scotsman.com alone
Mark Woodward
JP Group Editorial Content Manager