Admission to Google News: Editorial and Technical Requirements to Meet
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:59 am
To enter Google News there are precise editorial rules:
the site should have the pages "About us" (where the site's purpose must be declared), "Editorial staff" (characterized by a brief description of the staff, the authors' biographies accompanied by experts, contact information, links to social profiles, photographs) and "Contacts". For Google these are signals of reliability of the authenticity of the news (a "certification" of professionalism of those who write and disseminate information on the web). A "Disclaimer and Privacy" page should also be set up to highlight the intellectual property of the published content, information and rules on Privacy, and all other legislative/bureaucratic information of the case;
the published news must be characterized by a type of content that adheres to journalistic standards : short and incisive titles that reflect the content, text free of grammatical errors, satisfaction of the 5Ws, use of usefulness of self employed database quotations, strong ability to summarize and storytell, freshness and truthfulness of the news (being the first to launch a news item in fact rewards and allows you to carve out a space within the aggregator), proximity to the place where the fact occurred, empathy, etc.;
the article must report the date and time of publication , the link to any primary sources from which the news was taken and the signature of the publicist;
it must be evident that the content has been subjected to editorial supervision ;
advertising space should not exceed that dedicated to content;
the text should be SEO optimized (a content with a keyword study upstream will be better indexed by Google News).
If your goal is to get into Google News, it is essential not to share confidential and personal information, that violates intellectual property rights, that incites hatred and violence, that causes sexual arousal, that promotes illegal activities, that spreads messages of violence or cyberbullying, that refers to malware, viruses and harmful software.
the site should have the pages "About us" (where the site's purpose must be declared), "Editorial staff" (characterized by a brief description of the staff, the authors' biographies accompanied by experts, contact information, links to social profiles, photographs) and "Contacts". For Google these are signals of reliability of the authenticity of the news (a "certification" of professionalism of those who write and disseminate information on the web). A "Disclaimer and Privacy" page should also be set up to highlight the intellectual property of the published content, information and rules on Privacy, and all other legislative/bureaucratic information of the case;
the published news must be characterized by a type of content that adheres to journalistic standards : short and incisive titles that reflect the content, text free of grammatical errors, satisfaction of the 5Ws, use of usefulness of self employed database quotations, strong ability to summarize and storytell, freshness and truthfulness of the news (being the first to launch a news item in fact rewards and allows you to carve out a space within the aggregator), proximity to the place where the fact occurred, empathy, etc.;
the article must report the date and time of publication , the link to any primary sources from which the news was taken and the signature of the publicist;
it must be evident that the content has been subjected to editorial supervision ;
advertising space should not exceed that dedicated to content;
the text should be SEO optimized (a content with a keyword study upstream will be better indexed by Google News).
If your goal is to get into Google News, it is essential not to share confidential and personal information, that violates intellectual property rights, that incites hatred and violence, that causes sexual arousal, that promotes illegal activities, that spreads messages of violence or cyberbullying, that refers to malware, viruses and harmful software.