FAQs About Appearing in Google News

Your site is automatically considered for Google News and news surfaces in Search — no application required. You just need to produce relevant content that's identified as:Having high levels of expertise, authority, and trustworthiness.Having a consistent history of producing original news-related content.Complying with our News policies.While we previously had an application process to appear in these news products, this process was retired nearly two years ago when we launched Publisher Center in December 2019. This change allowed us to identify more eligible news content across the entire web, including from sites perhaps overlooked in the past, because they didn't know they needed to apply.The eligibility details here only apply to Google News, Top stories, and the News tab in Search. These details don't apply or impact the ability to appear in web results in Google Search. Learn more about how to Get your website on Google.

It's best to look at the performance reports on Search Console for Google News and Google Search (filtered to the News search type) in Search Console. These reports indicate if your site is receiving traffic from Google News and news surfaces within Google Search. If so, you know that your content is eligible and relevant to appear. For more information about how to track performance, learn how to Measure the impact of Google News.

Your site is automatically considered for Google News and news surfaces in Search — no application required. Once our systems identify content that is eligible to appear, its ranking is determined automatically by a variety of factors, including relevance of content, prominence, authoritativeness, freshness, location, and language.You can use the Publisher Center to define certain details about your site — RSS feeds, website URLs, videos and more — that can help manage your brand and make it easier for Google to index your site. The Publisher Center can also be used to create a "News source" page for publications, if you don't already have one. This page allows Google News users – if they choose – to follow the publication and see its latest content.While the Publisher Center can help you manage content that's deemed eligible, eligibility itself is determined through the automated process. Given this, being approved to use the Publisher Center, submitting content through it or having a News source page does not mean content will appear in:Search results at Google NewsGoogle News features like "For you" or HeadlinesNews surfaces in Search such as Top stories or the News tabIf you don't want your content to appear in Google News, you can block access to it without affecting your continued indexing and ranking in Google Search.

Make sure you're regularly producing original news content and are high in expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (our blog post about core updates has useful advice on this). Our systems run regularly and will automatically detect if a site has risen to better meet the criteria.No system is perfect, and we're always looking at ways to improve our automated system. But since retiring our application process nearly two years ago, the current automated system has enabled thousands of new publishers — from national brands to emerging local publications — to receive visitors from Google News and news surfaces in Search.We also encourage anyone to visit our How news works on Google site for more information.

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In Sep 2021, Google announced in an email to publishers on Friday that Google News will be displaying both AMP and non-AMP web content. Moveover, It will also no longer render article text from RSS feeds in the Google News app; instead, it will send readers directly to publishers’ webpages. I will keep update this FAQs if there's any changes in Google News.
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