Google News is a medium where you can stay updated with all kinds of news. Getting your blog or website into Google’s News category isn’t easy, but it’s not that difficult either. If you keep a few things in mind, your blog can appear in the news section, just like major news websites. Keep in mind that only those blogs or sites that regularly provide news updates related to that topic are included in Google News.
Here I will tell you how you can bring your news blog to Google News.
1. Choose a better theme for your website/blog
A great design is crucial for your website/blog, and even more important is the theme you use. If your blog is news-related, you should obviously use a news or magazine template. You’ll find thousands of free and premium templates available on WordPress. If you’re using Blogger, you have plenty of options there too.
A good theme increases your website’s chances of being approved for Google News. You should choose a theme that has clean coding, doesn’t take long to load, and gives the impression, from the homepage, that the website is a news website and that users are reading a newspaper.
Google also considers whether the website is mobile-friendly or not for ranking the website, so keep in mind that the theme of your website or blog should be mobile-friendly, which the user can easily read on all devices and gadgets.
2. Select Category
Category your site/blog correctly. News category such as news related to Business, Sport, Entertainment, Technology or Education. If you go to the website of any news channel like Aajtak, NDTV etc., you will see news related to different categories there. If your blog posts news on different topics then it is important to display that category on your blog. Publish all your posts according to these categories and display the menu of your website and blog separately according to these categories.
3. Add Contact, Privacy, About, etc. pages to your Blog/Website
When you apply for AdSense or anything else, your Contact, Privacy, and About pages are the first things that are looked at because these are the pages that make your blog look professional. So, be sure to include these pages. Add these pages to your website’s header or footer menu to make them easy for users to find.
5. Post better
If your posts are top-notch, your blog/site is likely to appear in the Google News section very quickly. Strive to ensure that each of your posts is high-quality and well-written. Whether it’s images or words, everything should be perfect and detailed. You can check out any news channel’s website for this.
Remember, there’s a difference between a news article and a regular article. A news article is time-dependent, meaning it’s pointless if you don’t write the right article at the right time. A regular article is evergreen and can be written at any time. A regular article’s visitor count remains constant, while a news article’s visitor count remains constant for a limited time. Therefore, to get approved by Google News, you’ll need to write as many news articles as possible.
6. Take care of some things
- There are other things to consider as well. If you can’t post regularly on your blog/site on your own, you can also involve your friends.
- Your blog/site should load quickly. – Be sure to include a sitemap on your blog/site.
- If your post has more readers then there are more chances of your post appearing in the news.
- The grammar of the post should be correct, care should be taken that there are no spelling mistakes.
- The website should be updated regularly, 1-2 news articles should be written daily and at least 1 article should be written daily.
- Write the name and summary of the author who wrote the article.
Steps: Steps to submit for Google News
When you feel everything is fine and your blog/site is eligible to be included in Google News, you can apply to add your blog/site to Google News by clicking on the link below and filling in your information. The process for submitting your website to Google News is described below.
To approve your website or blog for Google News, follow the steps given below.
- Go to Google’s News Publish Center – click here .
- Login with your Google account (login with the same account in which your website is in Google Webmaster).
- Select the website/blog you want to appear in Google News and click the Include button.
- Confirm and edit your news site details.
- Until you get approval, keep updating your website and publishing new news on it.