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Wrong Author Being Spidered (4 posts)

  1. rsgrone
    Member
    Posted 13 years ago #

    We are having an issue whereas, when Google News BOt comes in and crawls the site, the articles are getting picked up but, the articles area being associated to a user that no longer exists as an active user.

    I have been all over the databasee I can only see the name appearing now int he wp-signups.

    In the past Editors have had to do to much work on his articles and hence he was let go... How is this relationship between a non-existent user and and randomly speaking other members in the site?

  2. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 13 years ago #

    the articles area being associated to a user that no longer exists as an active user.

    Got a link?

    And who is listed as the author on the posts now?

  3. rsgrone
    Member
    Posted 13 years ago #

    Let me work you backwards on this if I may it will make more sense...

    Here's the link to Google News... http://www.google.com/search?q=Journalists%20Celebrate%20Today%20as%20International%20Freedom%20of%20Speech%20Day&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn

    If you click that it will bring you back to the news site with the actual authors name to it -- if that makes sense

    Notice that the Author Listed on The Google NEws Site no longer is a member of the site and his profile has been deleted..

  4. andrea_r
    Moderator
    Posted 13 years ago #

    It's not an issue with mu, then.

    It's an issue with Google News. Either they cache results, or they keep the original attribution.

    Clearly, your site has a different author, yet their result says it was updated 6 hours ago, and they've kept the original author.

    You will have to contact them.

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  • Started 13 years ago by rsgrone
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