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Fair enough, but they are publishing long articles 5 days a week.  I wish there was another term besides "blog" for it but cest la vie.  My biggest worry is they indicated we were a bad actor in the email response.

I am okay if we don't make it in - I just don't want to be doing something wrong from a SEO standpoint.  Thank, this is good info.

I submitted our site, http://www.styleblueprint.com to Google to pontentially be a local news source in Nashville.  I received the following note back:

We reviewed your site and are unable to include it in Google News at this
time. We have certain guidelines in place regarding the quality of sites
which are included in the Google News index. Please feel free to review
these guidelines at the following link:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769#3

Clicking the link, it anchors to the section that says:

These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here (e.g. tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known websites). It's not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn't included on this page, Google approves of it. Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit. etc...

Now we have never intentionally tried to do anything deceptive for our rankings.  I am new to SEOmoz and new to SEO optimization in general.  I am working through the errors report on our campaign site but I cannot tell what they are dinging us for. Whatever it is we will be happy to fix it.

All thoughts greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Jay