How to Add Your Website to Google News - Approval Guidelines and Checklist

How to Add Your Website to Google News

How to Add Your Website to Google News

In this post I will show you step by step on how to submit your website to Google news. By the December 2019 Google News Update for Publishers and Publisher Center, Now Google News is open to all websites. To get approved your website on Google news or in-short to appear on Google news you just need to provide high-quality content and follow the News Guidelines.

Google Publisher Help Center over Appearing in Google News

The Google Publisher Center is just now for content branding, monetization, and technical issue reporting which will appear in Google News and Discover feature.

But still, some big authority news and media publishing websites were unable to appear on Google News surface. In fact, they all are approved in Google Publisher Center and follow the news Guidelines. But after the September 2020 minor changes and Updates in Google search, it seems to be fixed.

How to Submit My Website to Google News Publisher

Friends, I am going to tell you here some easy ways with the help of which you can submit your website to Google Publisher account and send it for approval.

Step 1: 

Open the Chrome browser on your phone and laptop and type in the search bar Google News Publisher, you will reach the publisher account website.

You can also open here from Google publisher account

Step 2 :

Here you will see +add publication in the top left side. By clicking on it, you have to write the publication name, here you can write any name.

Step 3
 
After this you will have a new page of a publication form open, here you have to fill some general information.
  • Description You can write your blog description here
  • Category select your category related your niche
  • Primary language select your language
  • website property enter your website's URL here with http/https and verify it with Google Search Console.
  • Country select your country
  • Contact publication enter email ID
  • Google property select all
  • Google analytics tracking ID enter your analytics tracking ID code
  • here complete guide google search console

ENTER NEXT

Step4 :

Content Here you have to give information about your content, you have to tell what kind of content is published in your blog.

Section Here you have to add a feed with your website URL. (wordpress/feed) (blogger/feed) post/category
Content labels select your levels related your website
ENTER NEXT

Step 5 :

select your website or blog image/logo (squire logo) (wide logo) use only PNG or JPG file

Step 06 :

Ada section If you use Google Adsense, then you can enter Adsense Publisher ID here, you can leave it like this too.

ENTER NEXT

Step 07 :

Advance section You don't have to make any changes here

Step 08 review and publish You have to do this step carefully, you have to check all the detail that you have heavy, make sure that you have filled all the steps correctly.

Step 09 :


click submit your site in review

You have to submit your site for review, now your site will be reviewed by Google News Publisher Boat In two to three weeks, you will get a reply on the email ID given by you whether your site has been approved or not.

Friends, I told you above how you can create your publisher account and submit your site for a review. But your work is not finished yet.

If you want your publisher account to be approved as soon as possible, if you do not get the message of the reject, then you have to take care of some things.

To make sure you get featured on Google News, keep in mind the following things:

Checklist to Add Your Website in Google News

  1. Site's age must be minimum 3 months or Older
  2. Article Frequency minimum 3 articles a day
  3. 500+ posts would be a good count.
  4. Can run it on blogger but I would suggest self-hosted WordPress only.
  5. You can if you have permission from another website from where you are copying.
  6. Articles with Good Grammar & Articles that match’s Journalism standards
Few other to check
  1. Original content
  2. Daily Update
  3. Response time (website speed)
  4. Proper Attribution
  5. Multiple Authors
  6. Tweak Your Design
  7. Article Format: Each article format should have a proper title, author name, publication date and time (optional) and a minimum of 250-300 words in the article body.

1. Quality of Content:

Google is very strict on what actually constitutes news and whatnot. Google has mentioned that they do not include advice columns, how-to articles, job postings, or other such informational content as news. They accept only the genuine news stories, no matter; you can posts news specific to your industry and niche.

2. High-Quality Writing:

Make sure that your team holds exceptional news writing skills if you wish to get featured on Google News. Google assesses quality before featuring content in Google News so make sure you are not simply republishing the same news by changing its words. Use terms that people search for finding the information and try to avoid that people will never use while finding content. Try to include proper names in heading and at the front.

3. Technical Requirements to add your site in Google News:

There are some technical requirements that you will need to meet in order to get your content featured on Google News. These requirements include:
  1. Article URLs must be unique and must include at least 3 digits.
  2. Links to your site must be in HTML
  3. The article must be formatted in HTML because Google is unable to crawl the website in other formats like PDF
So, this was all about how to win the game of SEO for a news website.

How does Google News fetch its news articles?

This Google help article describes details about the fetching and ranking: Stories on Google News homepage

As far as the number displayed, that was to help prevent choice overload. When too many links were shown there was less user engagement (eg. number of links clicked and time spent on the page).

To help users explore, they can click on the link on the bottom to see a few more articles or click the title to see a dedicated page for the section. Each link can also be expanded to give additional details in each subject.

Google news rank only fresh news article and most relevant articles in google news . Their are many ranking factors which are given below .
  • Freshness of article
  • News article should be in active voice sentence
  • Most relevant articles
  • Site authority also important
  • Backlinks

Why is there a Google News rejection?


Their are various factors that lead to your google news site rejection some of them are:-

Replicating the content
Articles quality & length
Not following good journalism standards
Site is inactive for a while
To get approve your site must be old, Fresh sites are hard to get approve.


What are some good alternatives to Google News?


It depends on what type of news you are looking for, if you are a programmer/Startup Guy then Hacker News is by far the best news source. Some of the other alternatives are:
1. Digg(http://www.digg.com/): The new digg might surprise you, try it!
2. Yahoo News( http://news.yahoo.com/): Syndicated content from top new blogs.
3. Newsvine(http://www.newsvine.com/)
4. SlashDot(News for nerds, stuff that matters): More geeky than others
5. Newsnow: http://www.newsnow.co.uk/
6. Feedly: Your News. Delivered.
7. Pineapple · Web Tutorials and Resources That Don't Suck
8. Various Sub-Reddits: Science , Technology, Startups, All news, US and international. etc.



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