Intro:- How to Submit my Website to Google News? To apply for your website to be included in Google News:
- Go to Google News Publisher Center.
- Verify your website ownership in the Search Console.
- Send your request for inclusion.
- Add site details and update news section URLs.
- Click “Submit”.
Google News is your source for breaking news headlines and personalized news stories based on your likes and interests. News in Google search helps you learn about what’s happening in the world through an organized an experience of top stories, articles, videos, and more.
- Date launched: 22 September 2002
- Original author: Google, Krishna Bharat
- Owner: Google
- Developer: Google, Krishna Bharat
- Available in: Arabic Language, Bengali, Bulgarian language MORE.
About:- Google News is a news aggregator service developed by Google. It presents a continuous flow of links to articles organized by thousands of publishers and magazines. Google News is available as an app on Android, iOS, and the Web. Google released a beta version in September 2002 and the official app in January 2006.
Google News is your source for breaking news headlines and personalized news stories based on your likes and interests.
How to Submit my Website to Google News? If you are reading this article that means you want to know how to submit my website to Google News, right? But, you don’t have any idea how or where to start. If you are looking for an easy guide on how to submit my website to Google News then you are in the right place. Just you have to read this article properly. In this article, I will show you a step-by-step tutorial on how to submit my website to Google News. Even if you are a beginner there is no worry about it. The steps below are for both beginners & experts.
But before beginning to start a blog, there are some major points that you should know, like(FAQs)
- What is Google News?
- Do you have to pay for Google News?
- What is Google News Called?
- Is Google News a Search Engine?
- What is the purpose of Google News?
- What are the features of Google News?
- Can I trust Google News?
- Is Google a news source?
- Is Google News Free?
- What are the benefits of Google News?
- What are Google News Sites?
Let's Find It Out;
1. What is Google News?
Google News is your source for breaking news headlines and personalized news stories based on your likes and interests.
2. Do you have to pay for Google News?
If you already subscribe to the print version of a publication, you could be eligible for a digital subscription at no charge on Google News. Some publishers offer digital subscriptions to existing subscribers. Important: This feature is only available if you’re signed in to your Google Account.
3. What is Google News Called?
Through Google News Showcase, participating publishers can uniquely package the stories that appear in Google’s news products, currently Google News and Discover. The platform also offers deeper storytelling and more context with features like timelines within stylized news panels, related articles, and bullets.
4. Is Google News a Search engine?
Google News is a vertical search engine that Alphabet began in 2002. Results from Google searches–mostly news– are listed very prominently as a box in the organic search results in the event of current topicality.
5. What is the purpose of Google News?
Google aims to make it easier to stay informed by using technology to organize and help people access information about current issues and events. News experiences across Google are built to help you easily find news from a diversity of trusted sources so you can stay up-to-date and informed on the stories that matter.
6. What are the features of Google News?
News in Google Search helps you learn about what’s happening in the world through an organized experience of top stories, articles, videos, and more. The Top stories feature aims to display relevant, high-quality results for a news topic. For a broader context, the News tab displays more news articles for a given search.
7. Can I trust Google News?
Google News is an ocean of trustworthy websites, while there are many illegitimate, copy-paste, rewriting, fake, news sites trying to trick it. Hence surfacing is going to be very difficult for new publishers. So you need to be considered more trustworthy and responsible than the rest of the websites.
8. Is Google a news source?
Google News is your source for breaking news headlines and personalized news stories based on your likes and interests.
9. Is Google News free?
Google News is accessible to anyone and is free to use with your Google account.
10. What are the benefits of Google News?
With Google News, users can:
- Discover current events, worldwide news, and diverse content from different publishers.
- Subscribe to specific news providers and topics.
- Bookmark and share articles.
- Personalize content in the “For you” section.
11. What are Google News sites?
Google News is a computer-generated vertical search engine that collects and aggregates news stories and headlines from thousands of information sources worldwide. Google then displays them based on a variety of factors including user preferences and interests, relevancy, content freshness, and authority.
Let's Come To The Point;
Table of Contents
- How to submit your site to google news.
- Create a Google News sitemap.
- Follow Google News Guidelines.
- Always format your content.
- Submit youtube video content to Google News.
- Create friendly and Readable URLs.
- Optimize all your pages.
- Provide clear contact Information about authors and company.
1. How to submit your site to google news.
Got to Google’s Publisher Center and click Add publication:
Now, you’ll need to fill out some specific information. It’s all pretty self-explanatory:
- Description of your site.
- Category that best describes your site.
- Primary language.
- Website URL.
- Point of contact.
- Tracking (your Google Analytics code).
If you are using the same Google account for both Google News and Google Search Console, you can easily verify your site.
Just click verify in Search Console next to the Website property URL box:
Next, you’ll be able to add an RSS feed to your publication, add a custom logo, and even set up Google ads if you’d like to monetize your content. Once you’ve filled in everything that’s required and agreed to the terms and conditions, you’ll be able to publish:
Told you it wouldn’t take long to submit your site (if you ignore the review process which takes 2-4 weeks).
6 Additional Steps to Get the Most out of Google News
If you’ve come this far, it means you really want to increase your chances of getting yourself some sweet Google News traffic. Let’s explore a few aspects you should take care of to capitalize on your recent Google News submission. They’re the right balance between Google News-specific tips and more generic ones Google will love: How to Submit my Website to Google News?
1. Create a Google News Sitemap
You don’t have to have a sitemap for Google News (and Google in general) but your chances of getting your content crawled faster and better are much higher when providing one. Why? A sitemap makes it easy for search engines to crawl and index your content.
Thankfully, creating a sitemap for your WordPress site is pretty simple. Here’s an example of my XML sitemap:
Unfortunately, Google News sitemaps are not the same as “standard” Google Search sitemaps so you’d need to create a new one if you want to submit your site to Google News.
How to Create Google News Sitemaps
To be 100% sure and have full control over the content you submit to Google News, you’d need to implement a Google News sitemap. To do so, you could use the free WordPress plugin XML Sitemap & Google News or opt for a premium solution like News SEO by Yoast($69).
How to Create a Google News Sitemap Using the XML Sitemap & Google News Plugin
XML Sitemap & Google News is a free WordPress plugin that will create an XML sitemap and send your updates to Google News. It works great and it’s extremely simple. Once you’ve installed it, you have to enable the Google News Sitemap feature in your settings:
Once saved, you’ll able to access your Google News Sitemap feed at https://yoursite.com/sitemap-news.xml It’ll look something like this:
If you’re already using the Yoast SEO plugin, you might get an alert about using both like this one:
If that’s your case, simply disable the option “XML Sitemap Index” now available in your Reading > Settings page because of the recently installed XML Sitemap & Google News plugin. This way you can keep using both of them without any issues on your XML sitemaps. All in all, the XML Sitemap & Google News WordPress plugin is pretty straightforward to set up, plus it even works with WordPress multisite.
2. Follow Google News Guidelines
Your website is competing with lots of other sites and also trying to get exposure on Google. Every day, millions of posts are being published on WordPress alone. Seriously, check out this live look at the WordPress activity:
With so much content being produced, Google doesn’t have time to deal with pages that don’t meet all their requirements. Avoid your site being rejected from Google News because you didn’t follow the rules and make sure each page of your site conforms to the guidelines set by Google News.
3. Always Format Your Content
Google News can read all the text on your pages. But if your site has lots of multimedia (like images and video) it could use some help. That’s why you should make sure your most newsworthy content is properly formatted. For example, this article was recommended to me Google News:
4. Submit YouTube Video Content to Google News
Videos are everywhere and they couldn’t be left out from Google News. In fact, if your business relies on videos, you should take advantage of them. To submit your video content to Google News, you’ll need to log in to Publisher Center, click on Content tab from the top menu bar. From there, you’ll need to add a New Section:
This will open up a new window where you’ll be able to add links from your YouTube playlist or channel (like in the example below):
This is not the only option available to add videos as you can also embed YouTube videos in your articles, in your feed via an <iframe> or a media <RSS> tag.
5. Create Friendly and Readable URLs
You’ll need to pay attention to your URL structure. When trying to understand quality and relevance, Google looks at the whole page for clues, including the URL.
In fact, URLs are one of the first places it looks. So if your site’s URLs are made up of random characters, Google won’t be able to understand them and neither will your audience.
For example, looking at these URLs, which one will take you to an article about how to drive traffic to your site?
Correct URLs.
Wrong URLs.
I guess you can where I’m going with this. Make sure your URLs are SEO-friendly and unique. Creating unique URLs for each page is essential so Google and other search engines can understand their content. It’s SEO 101.
Take your time when choosing URLs. Once you create a URL, changing it later could cause problems.
6. Optimize All Your Pages
Google News shows the most recent headlines, but it also lets visitors customize their feed to only see news from preferred categories.
Therefore, your content is just as searchable on Google News as it is on search engines, so make sure it is optimized. Make your headlines a priority. They need to include relevant keywords for your audience, include numbers if possible, and be compelling.
7. Provide Clear Contact Information about Authors and Company
Google News stories require a few clear aspects that are usually overlooked by site owners. Specifically, as per Google News content policies:
To help prove your content’s validity you want to include content information with each news story. Bylined articles should include a short author bio at the end, including a professional title, an email address, and even links to social profiles.
Authored By The Er. Pramod Adhikari!
The Blogger, Author & CEO’s The Infinity Company! B. Tech in CSE(Computer Science & Engineering) from Sambhram College, Bengaluru-560097, Working worldwide as Software(Web/App) Developer!