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December, 12 2025
- Google News AI-Powered Article Overviews Go Live For Some Publishers On Wednesday, Google announced a number of new AI features, which we covered (links below) but one [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
March, 31 2025
- Google News Fully Transitioned To Automatically Generated Publication Pages Last month we reported that Google News Publisher Center changes are coming, well those changes [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
February, 11 2025
- Google News automated publication pages to start in March This comes after Google announced in April 2024 that Publisher Center will stop allowing you to add [...] - Search Engine Land
June, 26 2024
- Google News Sources & Google Publisher Center Bug Fixed We knew Google would stop accepting publications into Google News Publisher Center, but Google also [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May, 31 2024
- Google News and Discover not loading for many searchers This may impact news publisher traffic, while Google works out the kinks. - Search Engine Land
- Google News Tab, Discover & Google News Not Returning Results This morning, I was doing some news queries and noticed that, sporadically, the Google News tab was [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
April, 29 2024
- Google News Deletes Manual Submission Option via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google removes the manual submission option for Google News from the Publishers Center - Search Engine Journal
March, 20 2024
- Google SGE Feedback On Affiliate Results & Google News Does This Interest You Pop-Up Google is testing more polls and feedback forms within its search results. We spotted a "How [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January, 23 2024
- Will Google Improve The Google News Publisher Acceptance Process? Ever since December 2019 when Google removed the requirement for publishers to manually apply for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January, 22 2024
- Google News Filter By Publisher Option Google News now lets you filter news by publisher for a specific news search query. I think it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January, 19 2024
- Google Responds To Claims Of Google News Boosting Garbage AI Content Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, responded to the article from 404 Media titled Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January, 5 2024
- YouTube's Significant Drop In Google News Visibility It seems that YouTube is not showing up in Google News as often as it use to. Will Flannigan, the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 19 2023
- Is Your Company Blog Eligible For Google News? via @sejournal, @martinibuster Google's John Mueller answers if a company blog can be eligible for Google News - Search Engine Journal
October, 23 2023
- Google News For Context "By The Numbers" Tag Google Search is testing a "by the numbers" tag or label in the Google News / Top Stories [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
October, 12 2023
- Google News Showcase Can Show In Google Discover The Google News Showcase is new for those in the US and with that we are seeing content from within [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July, 31 2023
- Google Drops Google News Sitemap Validation & Errors Help Documents Google has removed a couple of the Google News sitemaps help documentation. I should note, it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July, 14 2023
- Google News Indexing Disruption Resolved via @sejournal, @kristileilani Google fixed a reported issue impacting Google News indexing that resulted in a decrease in traffic [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google fixes Google News indexing bug This bug impacted the the traffic of may news publishers for a 3 week period. - Search Engine Land
July, 10 2023
- Google confirms bug with Google News impacting publisher traffic This bug may be impacting publisher traffic from Google News. - Search Engine Land
June, 8 2023
- Google News Showcase coming to the US and updates to follow tab on Google News Plus, Google re-announced the Google Reader Revenue Manager. - Search Engine Land
March, 30 2023
- How to master Google News optimization to boost content visibility and traffic Google News-driven results send over 24 billion clicks per month to publishers. Here's how to claim [...] - Search Engine Land
October, 10 2022
- Google News Publisher Error "There Are No Items To Show" Over the weekend, there has been a number of reports from news publishers of an error in the Google [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 22 2022
- Google News Redesign Launches On Desktop via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google is launching a redesigned version of Google News on desktop that users can customize to meet [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Revamped Google News design goes live with top stories, local news and personalized articles Google also has re-launched Google News in Spain. - Search Engine Land
- Google News Launches New Design We knew this was coming when we spotted a massive design for the Google News home page and now it [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 16 2022
- Google News Tests Frequently Asked Questions Based On Trending Searches Google is testing a frequently asked questions section in the Google News tab in Google Search that [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May, 23 2022
- Google News new design being tested This is currently a limited trial but changes to Google News may impact some publishers. - Search Engine Land
- New Google News Trial Being Tested Google is testing a new version of the Google News portal. I am able to replicate it in some [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
April, 5 2022
- Google News "See Similar Headlines From" Section Promotes Publications Google News has a new (I think new) section for some news queries that says "see similar [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
February, 17 2022
- Google Quickly Processing Discover & Google News Manual Actions A couple of weeks ago we reported that Google was sending out its first batch of manual actions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January, 31 2022
- Google Penalizing News Publishers With Manual Actions For Discover & Google News About a year ago, Google first introduced guidelines around manual actions for Google Discover and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 9 2021
- Google News performance report updated for accuracy, expect impression reductions This is not a ranking change, this is just a change in how Google reports on your rankings. - Search Engine Land
October, 26 2021
- Google Search Console API Gains Discover & Google News Data With Regex Support Google added to the Search Console Search Analytics API Discover and Google News data that it added [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
October, 25 2021
- Search Analytics API now supports Discover, Google News, and Regex The Google Search Analytics API, which already provides data about Search performance, is being [...] - Google Webmaster Central
September, 8 2021
- Google News app will display non-AMP content and send readers to publisher pages Tracking and performance reports in Google Search Console won’t be affected. - Search Engine Land
September, 6 2021
- Google News Q&A Tips With Danny Sullivan The other day, I posted on Twitter a video from the inaugural Google News Initiative Community News [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Email: Simplifying Content Management In Google News With news that the Google page experience update is pretty much done rolling out, with the one [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
August, 4 2021
- Google Analytics Now Tracks Google News Showcase Discover Traffic It seems like Google Analytics is now showing some of Google Discover traffic, likely from the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: Try To Use One Sitemap File For Google News Google's John Mueller recommended that when it comes to your Google News sitemap file, try to use [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July, 19 2021
- Google Tries To Clarify Google News Inclusion But Did It Help? Danny Sullivan of Google published a blog post on Friday named answers to some common questions [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July, 16 2021
- Answers to some common questions about appearing in Google News Today, we’re answering some common questions we've heard from publishers to help them better [...] - Google Webmaster Central
- Google tries to answer publishers questions on visibility concerns in Google News Applying to be in Google News has been turned off for years, causing confusion to new publishers. - Search Engine Land
- Google Shares 5 Insights Into Appearing in Google News via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google shares five insights that can help site owners better understand how news appears on [...] - Search Engine Journal
June, 21 2021
- Google News Tests Country Filter Google is testing letting searchers in specific countries filter Google News to only show news from [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 7 2021
- Vlog #123: John Shehata On Google News SEO, Ranking In News & Google Discover John Shehata is the Global Vice Present of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 2 2021
- Google News Article & Site Wide Factors Trust Signals Google published its Google News transparency policy listing its principles behind these policies. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
June, 1 2021
- Understanding the sources behind Google News This post provides more information about Google's transparency policy to help news sources [...] - Google Webmaster Central
- Google publishes Google News transparency policy for publishers Google said it determines what constitutes meaningful transparency from news sources by what types [...] - Search Engine Land
May, 31 2021
- Vlog #122: John Shehata On The Early Days of Google News & SEO (Part One) John Shehata is the Global Vice Present of Audience Development Strategy & CRM at Condé [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May, 26 2021
- Google News Showcase On Desktop Google announced that the Google News Showcase feature is coming to desktop in eight countries (not [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May, 24 2021
- Google News Showcase now available on desktop, adds enhanced panels on mobile If your publishing site is lagging on desktop, make sure to give it some attention as this update [...] - Search Engine Land
March, 30 2021
- Google News Algorithmic Inclusion Is A Failure For Publishers Back in December 2019 or so, Google stopped the requirement for news publishers to manually submit [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
February, 8 2021
- Google publishes new manual actions aimed at Google News and Discover penalties Google has not yet announced the addition of these new manual actions but they are all visible in [...] - Search Engine Land
- New: Google News & Discover Manual Actions In Search Console It looks like Google added a whole set of new manual actions to the list of manual actions. The new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January, 12 2021
- Google News performance report added to Google Search Console Google Search Console now lets you dive in to how well your news site performs in Google News and [...] - Search Engine Land
- Introducing Google News performance report Today we are launching Google News performance reporting to help news publishers better understand [...] - Google Webmaster Central
August, 19 2020
- New Publishers Say Their Content Is Not Being Ranked In Google News There are a nice number of vocal SEOs and online publishers who have been complaining all year long [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January, 27 2020
- Video: Thom Craver at CBS Interactive on the importance of schema and a bit on Google News Just because Thom is an SEO at a news agency, don't blame him for any bias you see in Google News. - Search Engine Land
December, 19 2019
- How we highlight fact checks in Search and Google News Google has highlighted fact checks in Search and News for almost three years as a way to help [...] - Inside Search
December, 13 2019
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google 12/11 Algorithm Update, BERT Expanded, Google News Changes & Bing This week, we may have had a larger Google update roll out around December 11th, before that a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 12 2019
- Google News Submission Not Required, Powered By BERT & New Top Stories Features Google announced some new features around Google News and Top Stories. First, now Google is using [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
November, 4 2019
- Google News app lets users access content in two languages Personalization preferences are maintained across both languages. - Search Engine Land
October, 7 2019
- Google News Increases Bar For Application Process Google News has supposedly made it harder to become a Google News news source. John Mueller of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
August, 19 2019
- A Google Leak? Google News 4,000 Submissions Per Month, Web Spam Works With News Spam, Blacklists & Fringy Search There is a lot of talk around Project Veritas - of course, hard to know for sure if the documents [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July, 19 2019
- Is Google News Violating Google's Webmaster Guidelines By Not Blocking Stories? It looks like Google is not just indexing but also ranking Google News search results pages and [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
July, 11 2019
- Google News rolling out card layout on desktop search results Google News publishers may soon see changes in their referral traffic from Google News with this [...] - Search Engine Land
May, 7 2019
- Google's New How Google News Works Portal Google launched a new portal named How News Works on Google. This is similar to the How Search [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
April, 17 2019
- Google Fixing Another Indexing Bug With Google News Google said yesterday they are aware of an indexing bug impacting a limited number of publishers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google: Google News indexing bug has been resolved Resolved: Google has resolved the issue with Google News not indexing some publisher's content. - Search Engine Land
April, 16 2019
- Google investigating a new indexing bug – this time with Google News Oh no - another indexing related bug. But this one is limited to only a few Google News publishers. - Search Engine Land
- Google is Experiencing Indexing Issues With Content in Google News Google has confirmed it's aware of indexing issues affecting content in Google News. - Search Engine Journal
April, 15 2019
- Apple News, Google News, Google Newsstand: What marketers need to know What they are, how they work and how to optimize for Google News and Apple News. - Search Engine Land
January, 22 2019
- Google is Reportedly Considering Pulling Google News from Europe Google may pull its Google News service from Europe, according to a report from Bloomberg. - Search Engine Journal
January, 18 2019
- Is Google Getting Ready To Punish Google News Publishers In Violation? Google published on the webmaster blog some tips and advice around doing well in Google News. All [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January, 17 2019
- Google shares tips for success in Google News search results Get reacquainted with best practices for getting your content in Google News. - Search Engine Land
- Ways to succeed in Google News With the New Year now underway, we'd like to offer some best practices and advice we hope will lead [...] - Google Webmaster Central
November, 21 2018
- Google: We Fixed The Google News Indexing Bug Again & Again For the past few weeks, Google has been having issues indexing or ranking Google News publishers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
November, 13 2018
- Google News Publishers Complaining About Indexing Issues In the past few days there has been an uptick in complaints from Google News publishers around [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
November, 2 2018
- Google News Update Coming To Help Publishers Can't Find Their Articles Earlier this week, we reported about a number of complaints from Google News Publishers where they [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
August, 9 2018
- Google Assistant Can Now Read Google News Stories Out Loud Google Assistant has been updated with the ability to read articles in Google News out loud. - Search Engine Journal
June, 7 2018
- Google News Removes Several Features, Tags, and Schema Guidelines Google’s revamped version of Google News added new features, and a redesign, but it removed a [...] - Search Engine Journal
May, 30 2018
- New Google News Search Results User Interface? Google News on mobile, the search results, maybe have launched a new user interface. This might be [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May, 25 2018
- New Google News Drops RSS Feed Subscription Buttons With the new Google News, they didn't just drop the standout tag and editors pick but it seems like [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May, 18 2018
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Shifts, Google Snippets Shorter, Personalized Search Dead & Google News Updated Earlier this week, we reported on more Google algorithm changes with web sites fluctuating in the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
May, 16 2018
- All-New Google News App Now Available on iPhone and iPad Google has released a completely revamped version of its Google News app on the iOS App Store. - Search Engine Journal
March, 21 2018
- Google News Initiative kicks off with Subscribe With Google, other efforts Subscribers will see articles from their subscribed publications higher in the search results and [...] - Search Engine Land
March, 20 2018
- The Google News Initiative: Building a stronger future for news People come to Google looking for information they can trust, and that information often comes from [...] - Inside Search
January, 12 2018
- Is Your Site Still Not Listed In Google News After Bug? If you are not back in the Google News index, chances are, you were not removed due to this bug. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Tweaks, Search Console Rolling, Google News Delisting & Facebook News Feed This week we covered more ongoing tweaks to the Google search algorithms. We also covered the roll [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
January, 8 2018
- Google accidentally removes news publishers from Google News It is expected that affected publishers will be reinstated by the end of the day. - Search Engine Land
- Google News Removing Hundreds Of News Publishers If you check out the Google News Help forums you will see many many complaints from news publishers [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
November, 15 2017
- Google News Adds New Referral Source: news.url.google.com Elena from Google posted in the Google News Help forums that they have made an adjustment to their [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google News adds new referral URL source that publishers should begin tracking Google tells publishers to add news.url.google.com to the Google News referral tracking sources. - Search Engine Land
November, 3 2017
- Google News to deprecate old RSS feed URLs on December 1, 2017 Do you subscribe to Google News RSS feeds? Well, you may have noticed that they appear to be [...] - Search Engine Land
June, 27 2017
- Google News gets a cleaner look, new features to make it ‘more accessible’ The new design is simpler to use, more visually appealing and offers more content and context. - Search Engine Land
June, 12 2017
- Google News spammed with drug spam, dating sites & more Beware: The Google News health section is now filled with a lot of hacked content and spam. - Search Engine Land
March, 2 2017
- Google: Top Stories & Google News Are Independent Features Google's John Mueller posted on Twitter something many of you probably know... - Search Engine Roundtable
January, 30 2017
- Google News Removes Shareable Sections Back in 2011, Google News launched badges and sharable sections - an idea I was not too fond of - [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google AMP In Google News More Than Doubles, Hits 70% Of Results The folks at RankRanger reports that Google News on mobile is now showing close AMP in the US [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
- Google AMP results in Google News more than doubles Want your content to be found by mobile users in Google News? Well, it seems like you need to have [...] - Search Engine Land
November, 22 2016
- Google News Recommendations and the Google Knowledge Base I’ve seen posts from SEO by the Sea show up in search results with an “In the [...] - SEO by the Sea
October, 25 2016
- Pre-Elections: Google News Adds Fact Check Label & Schema Support This is news from a week or so ago, but Google added a fact check label to the Google News stories. [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
October, 3 2016
- Get Google News in One Place: Company Merges 19 Blogs into 1 Unified Blog Google’s official blog, now known as “The Keyword”, combines articles across [...] - Search Engine Journal
May, 9 2016
- Local News Sources Are Being Highlighted in Google News Google is giving local news sources an opportunity to shine in its News section with a new tag [...] - Search Engine Journal
April, 21 2016
- Google Highlights AMP Pages in Google News Google News will soon be highlighting the content of the thousands of publishers that have embraced [...] - Search Engine Journal
- Google News Now AMP Ready The Google News blog announced Google News is now amplified, meaning... - Search Engine Roundtable
March, 10 2016
- Google News Carousel Gets Category Toggle Google is testing a new format for the news carousel that lets users swipe between categories of [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
March, 1 2016
- Google News Box Returns In Google Finance Results Last week, we reported that the news box was removed from Google Finance results and was replaced [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
December, 11 2015
- Google News Requires Each Language Of Your Site To Be Submitted For Inclusion Stacie Chan from the Google News team said in a Google News Help thread that if you have a [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
November, 9 2015
- Google News Offers App Download Links to “Editor’s Picks” News Sites Google has now pushed live a new feature in Google News where they offer the latest headlines from [...] - The SEM Post
November, 5 2015
- Google News Card Here's a quick way to find the latest news stories when using a mobile device. Just search Google [...] - Google Operating System
September, 30 2015
- Google News Publishers No Longer Require Three-Digit Numbers In URLs After years of Google News requiring URLs to contain 3-digits, Google has finally dropped that [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google News No Longer Requires 3 Digits In Your URLs For as long as I can remember, Google News publishers needed to have 3 digits in their URLs in [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
August, 31 2015
- Google News Publishers App In Editors' Pick Last week, we informed you that Google News added a method to link to your mobile apps via the [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
August, 28 2015
- Google News Editors’ Picks To Get App Links The Google News Publisher Center added a way for publishers to add links to their apps. This will [...] - Search Engine Land
- Google News Publisher Center Adds Mobile Apps For App Inclusion In Google News Stacie Chan from the Google News team announced in the Google News Help forum that they added a new [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
August, 24 2015
- Google News Sitemap Index Count Bug Will Take A Long Time To Fix As we've reported twice before, the Google News sitemap index count is inaccurate and has been for [...] - Search Engine Roundtable
August, 14 2015
- Google News Lab Live Hangout August 28th Google is hosting their first Google News Lab live hangout this coming August 28, 2015... - Search Engine Roundtable