How To Get Blog Posts Listed In Google News

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1 How To Get Blog Posts Listed In Google News

1.1 News Technical Guidelines

1.2 Google Standout Tag

1.2.1 See Standout Example From Yoast

1.3 Meta news_keywords for Google News

Google News aims to organize all the world’s news and make it accessible to its users while providing the best possible experience for those seeking useful and timely news information.

Yoast SEO has a little WordPress plugin for Google News that you can install for a fee. This can be a good tool if you are not very tech-savvy and are looking for ways to improve SEO. It is easy to use but if you are a complete beginner and you are not sure how to use it, then you can always have a look at this Yoast tutorial. However, you can also just learn the code and do it yourself if you have good knowledge of tech terminology and SEO.

Read the Google news posting guidelines

News Technical Guidelines

Google News uses a computer algorithm to automatically crawl news sites. To help our system determine which web pages are actually articles, your site should follow our Technical Guidelines.

Here are some common technical issues you should consider:

Article URLs. Please make sure your article URLs are unique and permanent.
Article Links. When our crawler scans your site, it looks for HTML links with anchor texts that include at least a few words. We are also unable to crawl JavaScript, graphic links or links found in frames.
Article formatting. Our crawler is only able to include HTML articles. This means we cannot crawl PDFs or other non-HTML formats.
Robots.txt or metatags. In order for your content to be included in Google News, our user agent must be able to crawl and index your site.
Multimedia content. We currently are unable to include audio files or multimedia content; however, we can sometimes crawl the supplementary text on pages with this type of content and do include some videos from YouTube.

While not required, we highly recommend that you submit a Google News Sitemap through a Search Console account. Please note that you may receive errors if you submit your sitemap before your site has been reviewed and approved by our team.

Google Standout Tag

This tag helps identify what is important and will stand out. Google also has a Blog Posting describing this tag.

See Standout Example From Yoast

If you put the tag in the HTML header of one of your articles, Google News may show the article with a ‘Featured’ label on the Google News homepage and News Search results. The syntax for this new tag is as follows:

http://www.example.com/scoop_article_2.html” />

Meta news_keywords for Google News

Please note that this meta news_keywords tag is truly only for Google News, and thus not interesting if you’re not listed in Google News. Annoyingly the meta news_keywords are not the same as the keywords in the XML news sitemap, for which you can find the official documentation here. See more at Yoast.

Thomas J. Kane

At 16 years old in 1997 I built my first client website for a car dealership. At 17 I was one of the first few people in Kansas to be Cisco Networking Certified and I helped co-build the first computer network for a high school, two elementary schools, a hospital, and a 911 station. By the age of 40 now I have over 25,000 hours in content writing mastery and Google Advertising/SEO and have worked with over 480 different industries, amazing mentors, SEO & PPC corporate team leader at Godaddy.com, trained other SEO company's staff, managed over $37M dollars in advertising spend since 2007 for multiple companies and spent over $1M in A/B testing, created landing pages, sales funnels and massive PPC campaigns for the USA's #1 automotive leads provider, helped expand a global e-commerce business from 5 English sites to 122 sites in 30 countries in 7 languages, owned two #1 top-ranked SEO companies, in both Arizona & Kansas. Won all-expense-paid trip awards from Google for PPC performance, and been to the headquarters in Boston and California, and worked with 3 dedicated senior Google PPC teams at 3 major companies. I run an online advertising service for Montana, Kansas, Arizona & Florida businesses, as well as manage large campaigns for online national stores and services. Into renewable energy, solar, wind energy, crypto currency, Tesla, Nikola, natural health and healing, traveling, psychology, human behavior analysis, lie detection, forward progress, inspirational and educational writing, research, and analysis. Fascinated with AI (https://thomasj.ai/) and how it relates to the future of search and information.