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FYI -- I'm canceling my paid archiving over this issue. It's a deal breaker. I hope you guys fix it some day.

This is ridiculous. It shouldn't be this hard to discontinue archiving. Come on PE, this is starting to look like an aggressive business practice gone very wrong.

Any news on this issue? And more importantly, is there any concern that because PitchEngine has been blacklisted by Google News, that using PitchEngine could actually hurt pagerank?

Ok, well.. it looks like PitchEngine releases are no longer getting through to Google News.

I don't know if this is game over, or if some releases will get picked up by GN in the future -- but it's been a couple weeks now, and Google News seems to be blacklisting PitchEngine.

Any further updates? I can't find anything on the blog, or anywhere else -- and this seems like a major issue.

Hmm... well... does that mean releases made now will never be picked up by Google? Or will Google retroactively pick up the feed?

Should your subscribers hold off on submitting releases if their goal is to be picked up by Google News?

Hi Christine,

Thanks for responding -- but I don't think that it's just a matter of time. We have releases that have been live for days that are still not showing up in Google News -- even with a very specific search phrase.

Google News seems to be able to pick up news stories from other places within an hour (or less) -- but we're talking about much, much longer here and it doesn't look like Google News is picking up on the releases.

Was the PitchFeed blacklisted? If I search Google News for other articles in the PitchFeed I can't see them either. So it's not just our brands that aren't showing up.

From what I can tell -- PitchFeed doesn't seem to be getting articles onto Google News for anyone... or am I just looking at the wrong releases?

Any info / suggestions would be most appreciated. If you like, I can send you a link to our release for you to take a look at.

Thanks,
Jennifer

There's no button to do it... you have to add the html yourself ... in the same way that you add links to these comments.

Press the "Some HTML allowed" link in the lower right of the Reply box directly below this paragraph, and you'll see instructions on how to add a hyper link using the 'a href=' HTML tag.

'Hope that helps.