Hey Kelvin and All...

This is based on a recent WSO that's getting good reviews, as well as a report from Planet Ocean from a couple of years back. Both concern creating and being accepted as a Google news source.

Here's the theory...Google wil index your new articles and list them highly in the Google SERPs in a very short time, like 10-30 minutes for even very competitive keywords.

The drawback is, as a news site, your article will only rank for a short time, depending on other news stories for those keywords, it may only be for a few minutes. However, the claims are that you can get a lot of traffic in this short time.

So it's an ongoing deal: You write a keyword friendly news article, put some adsense on it and make $50-$100 per hour. (That's the claim of the WSO, not mine, and what I want to test.)

In addition, it's a great way to get a link indexed very quickly. The author suggests getting authors based on this alone, as a linking benefit.

I've added the Adsense share plugin as added motivation.

>What is timely/newsey, to you?

Examples:

No: Jimi Hendrix was a great guitar player.

Yes: A new Jimi Hendrix album was just released containing remixes and never released songs.

No: 10 Tips for Diabetics

Yes: Scientists discover vitamin lowers blood sugar.

No: How to refinance a home

Yes: Obama (congress,senate) signs bill to offer aid to help people in default of their mortgages.

Keyword selection is a big deal, according to the author and he gives these numbers as the CPM for his topics:

Legal 40.00
Banking and Finance 30.00
Medical Treatment 20.00
B2B 15.00
Miracle Drugs or Vitamins 15.00
IT Hardware 15.00
Jobs 12.00
Technology 10.00
Education 10.00
Medicines 10.00
Science 8.00
Automobile 6.00
Webmaster or Hosting 5.00
Fitness 5.00
Consumer Durables 5.00
Hotels and Travel 4.00
Dating 4.00
Social Networking 3.00
Fashion and Clothing 2.00
Music 2.00
Gaming 1.50
Sports 1.50
Breaking News 1.00

The above are based on getting 1000 people to a page. It doesn't factor in that some keywords may be 10X easier to get traffic.

However, I've collected a bunch of RSS pheeds for each topic to use in the Newz Tuel.

>And what kind of lengths are you looking at?

200 words minimum. But would also like to see some longer articles, when the content writing "flows". I have some formatting that must also be applied, as well as finding a graphic. So add 5-10 minutes for each article. I'm in the process of adding more legal stock photos for the "money" topics, which will speed things up quite a bit.