Excluding specific posts from Googlebot-News
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BACKGROUND: I hope my blog will qualify for inclusion in Google News. Overall, I believe it meets the criteria that Google publishes for Google News sites. One concern I have is that some blog posts, though newsy, quote several paragraphs from other sources. They’re properly credited, but they might lead Google to decree that the blog is being a news aggregator rather than a source of original news.
ISSUE: To avoid that possibility, I would like to exclude those specific posts from being crawled by Googlebot-News. How can that be done?
MY THOUGHTS SO FAR: Perhaps it can be done by setting up a robots.txt file? Can that be done on WordPress.com? Perhaps in conjunction with manually entered text in the URL, such as “exclude,” which the robots.txt would instruct Googlebot-News to disallow?
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Hi there! This has already been ably answered in another thread:
Thank you!
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