Google News has been an abundant source of Traffic for many websites since few years. Previously there were only a few publishers on Google News so things were pretty easy, back then. But now many sites got into google news to drive traffic to their blog/websites. However, Google News still acts as a good source of traffic for websites that produce good quality content in large volumes.
If you are new here you should check out my article on Things you need to know about Google News.
In this article, I will explain you the step by step process to get your website/blog into Google News. Things are not that easy but if you follow all the steps properly then the chances of your website getting into news would increase.
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- 1 Steps to get your Website into Google News:
- 1.1 1.Your Website Theme/Look
- 1.2 2. Your Website must be complete with all required info:
- 1.3 3. Website must be Multi-Authored:
- 1.4 4. Do not post about Job Updates, Notifications, and How-To Guides:
- 1.5 5. Author bio on Post Pages
- 1.6 6. You must divide content into sections/categories
- 1.7 7. You must publish good number of articles per day
- 1.8 8. Grammar plays a key role
- 1.9 9. Google News Sitemap and News Keyword Tag
- 1.10 10. If you cannot do all the above steps then do this
Steps to get your Website into Google News:
1.Your Website Theme/Look
Your website theme plays a key role in getting you approved for google news. It should be of Magazine Style with proper section wise news on various topics like Politics, Education, Entertainment, Technology etc.
As the name says the theme must look like a news website. There are many themes out there, if in case you are a WordPress user you can go ahead with some popular Magazine Style Theme.
You can have a look at popular news sites India Today, Times of India, All India Roundup etc
2. Your Website must be complete with all required info:
Your website must have pages like About Us, Contact Us, Media Kit and an Authors page as well. Of all these, you must have an about us page where you have to list all your authors with a brief bio.
- You can have a look at a sample page here
3. Website must be Multi-Authored:
This is quite obvious. A single person alone cannot produce lots of content daily. So, it should have a minimum of 2-3 authors who covers on various topics each and every single day.
4. Do not post about Job Updates, Notifications, and How-To Guides:
This is one of the biggest mistakes people do, posting about jobs and job notifications is completely against Google News TOS. So, if you have any articles about Job updates and notifications you have to remove them immediately before you apply for Google News.
However, you can post few job updates after your site gets a full approval for Google News.
Along with that do not post How-To guides, a website with how to guides doesn’t get a news approval as the name says the website must be updated with latest news stuff and not how to guides. If in case you are posting How to guides exclude them for the news sitemap.
5. Author bio on Post Pages
The author name is a must, but bio is generally optional. But if you are applying for an approval then having an author bio will increase your chances of getting approved.
6. You must divide content into sections/categories
Every news website has some categories so divide content into different categories because Google News will ask you for different sections like Headlines, Technology, Entertainment etc while you are applying for Google News.
7. You must publish good number of articles per day
Generally they say you can get into news if you publish 3 articles per day. But believe me, that wouldn’t be sufficient enough. You must publish at least 10 articles per day and before few days of applying publish at least 15+ articles per day.
8. Grammar plays a key role
Your application will be reviewed manually by someone from Google News team. They will verify the complete website to the best possible extent and they will manually read few articles posted on your website. So, no matter even if you have satisfied all the above guidelines if your website doesn’t have proper grammar then your application will be declined without any hesitation.
9. Google News Sitemap and News Keyword Tag
Google News sitemap is a little different from the sitemap which you generally have on your blog. A Google News sitemap will have only a maximum of 1000 URLs in the index at a time.
Also, you need one more additional tag called news_keywords tag, however, this is optional initially but if you have one for your blog the chances of getting approval would increase.
For these two I would highly recommend you to go for Yoast SEO News Plugin if you are a WordPress user which is a premium plugin and you have to pay for it.
Alternately you can also use Google News XML Plugin for Sitemap and Google News Keywords from Tags plugin for news_keywords tag.
10. If you cannot do all the above steps then do this
If you follow all the above steps properly then you can definitely get into google news but I know the above-mentioned steps are a little difficult to achieve and takes some time.
Also, sometimes even though you have followed all the above steps, still your application might get rejected due to some unknown reasons.
Alternately you can buy a website/domain which is already listed in Google News. There are quite a few brokers on Flippa and few other marketplaces who sell expired/parked domains that are already listed in Google News. It would cost you anywhere between $500 to $5000 based on the demand for the domain/website.
- Once you are done with all the steps head over to this page and click on Google News Publisher Center at the bottom of the page. Generally it takes 2-5 days to know whether your application is accepted or rejected. If in case its rejected you have to wait for 90 more days. So, give your best on the first attempt itself.
So, I guess it’s very clear on how to get your site listed on to Google News. It’s not easy at the same time it’s not impossible as well. Do contact me if you need any help in getting your site listed on Google News, I can help you out with the same.
My next article would be on optimizing a Google News website stay tuned.
If you need any help in buying/selling/optimizing Google News website feel free to hit me a mail at [email protected] or [email protected]
Imran Uddin started his career as a Blogger, now runs a Tech company - 
Mahendra says
Nice post Sir Ji, Please Tell me something more about: Before Apply Requirement
1 – Minimum Site Age ?
2 – Minimum Site Traffic (Organic and Social) ?
3 – Minimum post?
4 – Hosting I means we can run it on Blogger?
5 – Most News Sites just rewriting NEWS from other big news sites, Its ok ?
Thank You
Imran says
Your answers.
1. 3 months would be fine.
2. No traffic requirement as of now.
3. 500+ posts would be a good count.
4. You can run it on blogger but I would suggest self hosted wordpress only.
5. You can if you have permission from other website from where you are copying.
Mahendra says
Thanks sir one thing I forget about Ranking Factor.
Please Tell me about NEWS sites’s SEO, Means
How to do best SEO of NEWS sites?
What Backlinks Needed for rankling?
How Many Backlinks Needed?
What Kind Backlinks Needed?
How to get ranked?
apnewscorner says
Thanks for great article Imran,
My website http://www.apnewscorner.com automatically approved for google news,
Here my doubt is how its happen and my website is not responsive design thats why my SEO friends suggest to change site to wordpress, right now I’m doing that, bur i need some suggestions and tips to develop my website more effectively.
Thanks,
Ramana.
Imran says
Do contact me at [email protected] I can help you out with the same.
Regards
Imran
apnewscorner says
ok Imran just send please check it….
harsh says
Hi Imran Bro, I heard that For google news, In url you should have 3 distinguish parameters. Is it true ?
Imran says
No.
Shahwal says
Hey Imran! Really usefull information that you shared with us. But one thing i want to ask. My site is http://www.whatsuch.com . But the Landing page does not have the News. Suppose i make the Sub domain like News.whatsuch.com. After than can i use Google News for that..
Thanks!!
Imran says
yes
AK Khan says
Dear Imran,
Is my religious site is eligible for approval for Good News
Imran says
Yes you can get it into news if you follow all the above conditions.
alan says
thanks a lot.
DealsNotify says
How to find news approved domains from the expired domains.
As some people don’t know that their websites are approved for google news how to get to know about these websites
Imran says
Go to news.google.com and do a site:domain.com then if you will find if the website is listed or not.
Bilal Khan says
Hi Imran Bro,
Nice Man,i want to add my Blog in Google new but i am not know how to get approval.Thank for guide with Detail.Keep up it.Have a nice week.
suresh says
hi imran, i have to start jobportal http://www.simhapurijobs.com but how to get google adsence account approval pls tell me
thank u
Harry says
Brother i have a multi niche website http://www.ebloggertimes.com/ and i had applied for google news but can’t approved. Can you please check my website ???
Imran says
You should know what mistakes you have done by this time from the above article. Do rectify them in the next appeal.
Harry Goyal says
Hello Imran,
As after 6 months we can reapply for Google News so I can see Request Inclusion In Google News button in Google News Publish Center. But can you please please review my website before applying. I don’t want to wait for more 6 months. Please my website is http://www.ebloggertimes.com/
THANKS in Advance
saijad says
Hi Imran,
Superb article. you covered everything and cleared my almost doubts. since last month I was looking for this information.
thank you
Partho Pratim Mazumder says
Thanks a lot.bro . Great content . I searched it for many times .
Gaganjot Singh says
Thanks for sharing unique information.
kamal Gill says
hi Imran
Great article thanks for explain breifly, i have entertainment niche site like koimoi, You tell me Imran single niche site liek (review, boxoffice, and songs ) easy for google news approval or not ? and permalinks play any role for approval ? many people use http://www.domain.com/2015/10/post.html like this
Again thanks
Imran says
You can get approval for even a single topic site.
Permalinks doesn’t play a key role. Google news just want you to have a proper sitemap or add a unique number to permalink. Any one of these would work. But adding a sitemap would solve the problem.
Ajit Soren says
Awesome .. This is what i was looking for..
but i have a doubt
How to change the url to like this ” xyz.com/any-keyword/4563/ ”
i read in the news publishers policy that site’s url need to have a four digit unique number which should now match any year or it will not crawl that ….
is it ??
and in maximum new publisher’s site i have seen that thing common.
it would be great if you tell me how one can do that .. ??
&
in the “News sections information” what URL to give
Thanks in Advance
wanted it for my this blog : http://www.techvilla.net
i got rejected when for the first time when i applied.
Imran says
Use a separate sitemap that would be fine. You don’t need numeric parameter if you have a sitemap.
Adesanmi Adedotun says
Hi Imran,
This is indeed a very good insight about getting Google news approval. I have submitted my site times without number but all to no avail, hopefully with these tips my site will have an edge way into Google news
Venkata Veeranjaneyulu says
Thanks for sharing.
Yeswanth Ray says
is there any special backlinking methods that have to be done with this news blogs..?
Imran says
Not required.
Swathi says
Good Post Imran…
Its very useful
M.Mujamil says
Hello imran ji while starting the blog do you have any Knowledge about blogging and if you have take any coaching in any institution for blogging. How do you know about bloggig internt money buy publishing post and ads
Imran says
I learnt everything myself.
Bharath Bhushan Naidu says
@M.Mujamil
Internet makes you an expert thought you start with nothing.
Just follow blogs for latest updates and stay updated.
M.Mujamil says
I have an doubt on blogging if i want an programmer or not. Can i ask an question on your blog income for month i am going to apply for the blog permission how much money takes by google and how many day it takes
Balram paul says
Thank you for sharing this article. This is very helpful for me. You can also seen another article here @ http://flexon.co.in
Vishnu says
Hi Imran ! Thanks for your wonderful articles. You are the who is being inspiration for many of the bloggers from south India. Hope you will teach all of us more and more with your Talent. Expecting more best articles from you.
Your Follower .. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy
shashi says
Hi Imran plz let me know how to get my site in google news My website : http://moviearts.in
Imran says
Follow the above given steps, it should get approved.
Vishwajeet Kumar says
Nice and informative post imran. This article really helps me to get listed one of my news website in Google news. Great Job.
Sainath says
Thanks for the info on Google news approval . But I had heard that 3 unique numbers should be in permalink for news approval.Can you please clarify my doubt and please have a look of my site http:// http://www.indiavisuals.com is that eligible for news?
ramcharan says
This is much helpfull to me and i didn’t even know that there is this type of submissions will be there
Akinola says
Thanks for the information. Everyone will like to have their blog in google news. Following your steps will make it easy.
Riya Rai says
There are lots of websites who claims that they will publish your site in google news and other top search engines. Should we go for a try or it will affect our google page ranking?
ramcharan says
Hello bro will u write something about stumbleupon and how to unlock a domain if the domain locked hope u write tanq
Rajesh says
We have received the same following message for our site.
Today when checking my I got this following error on my PlusNews Site : http://www.plusnews.in
“Your Sitemap is on a site that is not in the Google News database. Google News can only accept Sitemaps from sites that we crawl. If your site is crawled by Google News, please check that the URL of your Sitemap agrees with the URLs of your articles as they appear on Google News, including any leading “www”. If you would like to request inclusion of your site in Google News, please contact the Google News support team.”
Required your assistance in solving the above issue
Thanks and regards
Rajesh
Imran says
Better mail me to [email protected]
Umapathy says
Hi Imran,
Well explained post. My previous attempt to apply for the news site failed. I was searching for a solution and landed here. Now, I learned about the mistakes I did on the site. I will rectify it and apply it again. Will share good news once it is approved.
sanjay says
This is really helping, I’ll do all above mention steps to get my website approved and listed in google news, Thanks for sharing such a great information.
Venkata Veeranjaneyulu says
multi Niche site are eligible for google news??
naveen says
usefull article
GOPALAKRISHNAN says
Its really very useful article for beginners. Thank you, sir.
Jay says
is it news keyword is compulsory? 🙁 i don’t have news keyword in my domain name: http://theviralbytes.com
Imran says
News keyword not really required.
Waqas says
Thank you Imran for the helpful pointers, can you share your tricks on decent traffic increment?
Regards,
Mukesh Dutta says
Wow Imran, I didn’t know that traffic can be generated from Google News too. Thanks for the information.
oompfh says
Hi imran,
thank for your valuable information.
Alex C shabu says
Will blog post be shown in news ?
Joseph says
Google News is trending a lot since last year. I have been hearing about this a lot. Your tips are very useful for a beginner. Thanks for sharing it.
hafiz says
thanq good one…
Rahul Rajput says
Thanks nice article for indexing blog in Google News.
reheman says
Here i am begineer my site i have completly created with Your help Thanks For Supporting Us anna. meru elagey inka inka chala manchi posts lu chaiyali
mohammed says
Hi imran,
Thank For Your Valuable Tnformation…..
Hope Praise says
Hi Imran,
thanks for sharing this quality tutorial on how to get accepted by Google News.
Maqsood Memon says
Hey Imran,
Great post but can I submit my micro-niche website to it? Would it be accepted at Google News or not?
ravi says
minimu age of site domain is required or not.
Aayush says
Superb . you have cleared my almost all doubts.
Thank You
Lakshya Dhillon says
Thanks, leme check with google news too… 🙂
salman says
This is a very genuine post, people can rely on it!
shasha says
Let me try same new gig
rahul says
Thanks for sharing these tips……
karamath says
hai imran bhai i love your article’s my doubt is can i have to submit two website’s there will not be problem about the ip address na
Alex shabu says
Thank you for sharing this . I wil try this for sure
Abhilash P S says
I never heard about Google news before, thank you Imran for this update. If we follow all these steps immediately then Google will find out this development is unusual for the time being, so Is there any problems from Google for doing all these so quick?
AMARANATHA REDDY says
where can i get free images and videos for blogger. please tell me.
Harshika says
I had few confusion about the Parameters for blog to get approved for Google News listing. You have explained everything very clear here. Thanks buddy.
99 dollar seo says
Hello my family member! I wish to say that this article is awesome, nice written and include almost all important infos.
I would like to see more posts like this .
Sugunakumar says
NIce i like this post
Aamir says
Thank you very much bro….. that’s very useful content.
Aditi Verma says
Good Job Imran. Awesome post.
riyan says
hai imran,
i submitted my adsense application in that forum i kept NO for newsletters (email preference) is that cause any problem to mee in receveing payment ..
all are saying ur payment is received through letter ..(and pin)
is there is any solution..
Shankar says
Good To Read This Article Will Apply To My News Blog Also.
Rupesh Govardhane says
Great article you write. really helpful for me i will try to use this on my website
Anjali says
Great article.. thanx for sharing
Green patrick says
Great article bro your all most is very interesting
Paul billygraham Reang says
Hi Imran,
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us, I am glad and happy that you shared such informative post. It will help many bloggers including myself to understand more about Google news in depth.
Best Regards
Paul
Ruven says
Thanks for info friend.
sam says
Nyc post !! Sir !!
balaji says
hi thankyou so much imran great post .A++
Masud says
Thanks for valueable information.
Rahul says
Hey Imran,
Very informative and helpful article, we have tried to follow all the steps you have mentioned on above article.
i had started news website under the name of http://www.langur.in/ we want to submit our site to google news. can you let us know any other recommendation on our website. that will be very helpful,
pl. check the website if you can spare some time .
once again thank you for the beautiful written article
Farid Zarif says
awesome information. its very important for us. thanks for the sharing a very useful article.
VK Verma says
Hi Imran Uddin,
I am getting problem while submitting news sitemap in Google Webmaster generated from XML Sitemap & Google News Feeds.
It is showing error – Issue: Missing XML tag – Description: This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit – Example: Parent tag: urlset Tag: url – Now what should i have to do?
Are you getting this problem while using NEWS SEO YOAST Plugin? or i have to buy Yoast News Seo plugin..
Imran says
Do you have a google news site?
Then you should go with premium yoast to get the best features.
kalpesh says
Hey Imran thank you bro for sharing this post, But I want to mention one more thing and that is website or blog owner should keep his website updated as google may notice whether the website gets keep updated or not
Sunil Kumar says
Hi, recently I have started one blog and I am in little confusion how to move forward. your article cleared some of my doubts. In this article you mentioned some plugin like Yoast SEO News Plugin but at this time I can’t bare premium one. Can you please suggest me some plugins which are at free cost.
Karamjit Singh says
Thanks for sharing this quality tutorial.
Ritesh Jha says
I have a webblog that developed on our own CMS, so what i need to do for google news feeds?
imti says
Great Post
Gary Cooney says
Kudos, all points you have mentioned are worthy for a quality blog.
kareem ansari says
thanks for the idea. i will be thankful to you 🙂
ramesh rsm says
Nice article…
thanx for sharing….
Anjali says
Hello, How could I approve my website for Google news please help http://www.jobsfundaz.com . I send them but it was rejected and now when I can send request again.
My site is multi authored
500+ Posts
All categories
than too rejectd dont knw the reason
Manu Ajay says
It is really helpful for Beginners.Thank You posting this type information Bro
Robert says
Hi Imran, very nice article.
Thanks for all the information provided here.
Is there any requirement for the categories? I.e. Is that fine if a news belong to more categories? Is there a minimum number of categories on shall use?
Cheers,
Robert
Ephraim says
This is very informative. Thanks for this Imran
Jury says
thanks for sharing this informative information
Sanjeev says
Hello Imran, How are you? No doubt Google News is a great source of unlimited traffic. Thanks for sharing these tips for Google news approval.
allindiaword says
Sir after checking all the steps, I have applied to ‘Google News’ but still they rejected the application. My website is a news website but still they don’t accept, any suggestion Imran sir?
Patel Shoeb says
Very useful information!!!!
nithya says
thanq very much..
Harsh Vyas says
I have applied so many times, but unable to get an approval from the News department of Google. Should i use Yoast News Plugin?
prince says
Can I get approval on my blog wikiblog24.com ? I shared tips and tricks and shared tech news also. I am waiting for your reply bro
TechEvernews says
meaningful Article because it is sufficient information for to get approve adsense account.
TechEvernews says
Hii.
can i get approval from adsense, because my site was only 4 weeks old. so can i get??
Sunil Kumar says
Hi, my blog is about education news. Is there any possibility to listed in Google news. If I get suggestions more appreciated. Thanks.
Imran Uddin says
Possible but its very difficult.
Mohan Raj says
any possibility to add my blog-spot to google news…?
Kiran Kumar says
Hello Imran,
I was searching posts related to Google news approval but never found a great one like this with in depth details. You have mentioned all the points and now me and my team are working hard to get approval by following your tips.
Thank you so much man, keep rocking.
Imran Uddin says
All the best and feel free to contact me if you are stuck with any major issue.
Sheila book says
Amazing method for beginner for get google news for approval
Raghuvarya says
I wish I knew these guidelines earlier! I was writing blindly and applying for News Approval! After several rejections I just gave up! 🙁
Marco says
Hello there
Thank you very much for all the information you apre providing
How can I check that an existing Google News site will not lose the approved status or is having possibly some problems?
Thank you
Marco
Shahin says
Can I get approval on my blog
AponTips.com ? I shared tips and
tricks and shared tech news also. I
am waiting for your reply bro
virtual address northern ireland & belfast says
Very nice Tips. This post will help new comers.There will always be a member of staff available to accept your mail, and sign for special deliveries Thanks to you.
Create facebook account says
I can not put my blog on google news, I hope soon succeed
Punit says
is that true that if we have to approve the site from google news than we have to get VPS hosting..??
shared hosting don’t work??
reply
masud pilot says
Can I get approval on my blog techneed24.com ?
I have shared tips and tricks and shared tech news also. I am waiting for your reply bro.
vrakov.net says
This is my first time pay a visit at here and i am really impressed to read all at one place.
Joel says
Superb article. you covered everything
Tawanna says
My spouse and I stumbled over here coming from a different web address and thought I may as well check things out.
I like what I see so now i’m following you.
Look forward to checking out your web page repeatedly.
Shivateja says
Hi, Imran. You’ve done a great job writing this article which is useful for many buddies out there. I have few doubts regarding the inclusion of my site in google news. Will you pls try to help me?
1)Minimum no. Of posts before applying.
2)My site doesn’t even get a 100 visitors/day. Is this going to affect the inclusion process?
3)Will you please put on your traffic stats and no. Of blog posts of your site all india roundup at the time of request for inclusion?
Thank you
Princy Saxena says
Marvelous .. This is the thing that i was searching for..
Sheena Bajaj says
I have shared tips and traps and shared tech news too.
GearPQ says
Hi Imran, we are GearPQ, we are someone who follows your SEO techniques and other blog maintaining Tips. We appreciate your effort for this great information, but can you suggest us on how a Complete Gear & Gadget blog that can get into Google News ?
Thank you,
GearPQ.
Shakespeare Wonderod says
A motivating discussion is definitely worth comment. I do think that
you ought to write more about this subject, it might not be a taboo matter
but typically people do not speak about such topics. To the next!
Best wishes!!
Pikku Sharma says
Stunning strategy for apprentice for get google news for endorsement…….
Nihal says
Useful article…thanks for sharing the much needed information with us.
Money Transfer says
Amazing Article, I’m a regular visitor of your, This website is like an SEO guide for me. thank you for posting.
Ali Haider says
Hi Imran Bro?
Can I Get Google News Approval On My Blog Tutorials Hubs?
I’m Thinking To Add A Section Of News…
Please Reply Me 🙂
-Thanks
Lynda says
Thanks Imran for your nice post.it’s very informative….
Munna Hossain says
Top class article. Thanks for sharing such an article. I want to apply for google news but it is not possible for me. Because there are some requirements here, my blog can not fill up. Enjoyable article.
Sonia says
Very nice article very helpful for me,
Abhishek Tripathi says
I guesss I get enough information to get my blog into Google news. I want to ask if there is certain minimum requirement for visitors per day also other than above listed points?
Regards
Abhishek
Nitish says
Hey Imraan can you just let me know if my site is all ready as per your guidelines for google news approval buddy?
Newshub.in
Expect the articles because I’m not gonna apply it now.
Just want to know whether all the technical thing are right or not like about us, author and sitemap.