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Google's crawler (especially the blog and news ones) requires a three digit or larger number in the url. That is why you should keep a year/date in a url.

Update: Not sure why I got downvoted, but here is the reference from Google News:

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



Don't downvote snewe, he/she is correct: http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=...

I can't figure out why though. It sounds like an incredibly stupid rule.


Why do they want this?


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I guess nobody believed you, because it sounds so ridiculous. Do you have an idea why Google imposes that rule?


I'm not sure it's true. Do a quick search on Google news and click some links -- there are plenty of results that don't have numbers in the url.


From http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=...

this rule is waived with News sitemaps.




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