SEO best practices for news sites



Learn SEO best practices for news sites to help position your content appear on Google search results and news surfaces. Daniel Waisberg and Cherry Prommawin from Google Search share tips that will increase the visibility of your content on Search, drive more traffic to your website, News policies, and more in this episode of Search Central Lightning Talks.

Resources:
Google Search Essentials → https://goo.gle/search-essentials
Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content →https://goo.gle/helpful-content
Qualify your outbound links to Google → https://goo.gle/outbound-links
News policies → https://goo.gle/news-policies
Influence your byline dates in Google Search → https://goo.gle/byline-date
Visual Elements gallery of Google Search →https://goo.gle/search-visual
Search Console for news sites → https://goo.gle/sc-news

Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
1:20 – How news content looks on Google Search
3:12 – SEO best practices
7:34 – How to be eligible for Google News?

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21 thoughts on “SEO best practices for news sites”

  1. How would a new small site get authority if google won't rank it even if the content has experience and expertise, i.e. big sites that publishes press releases get rank way above small sites that really test products or does indepth news reporting?

  2. Sometimes I can press space to pause a video and somtimes that does not work. Sometimes I can press enter to paus a video, and some times that does not work. Why google? Pausing is needed when he is talking and you missed something on screen because you had to read the text to understand him. It is annoying when there is no consistensy in how your video player works.

  3. It's awesome that you did a news-specific video, but the EEAT examples were really disappointing. It's as if no journalists gave input on this section.

    E: Journalists seldom do product reviews. If a reporter covers the President, they aren't going to have experience acting as the President, so does that disqualify them? (Obviously not.)
    E: You use physicians for expertise, but physicians aren't journalists. Again, does a reporter have to have performed open-heart surgery to be able to write about new advancements in the field?
    A: The passport renewals example? You say a government page will be the most authoritative. News sites should be completely walled off from/unassociated with government sites. This isn't a newsy topic.
    A: "Financial scam" example for trust? How about just talking about the fake news sites that do things like tout election fraud?

    Thanks for taking the time to do these. We would love to see specific examples that are relevant to publishers.

  4. Why bother with SEO practices when Google is planning the release of its new search engine in the near future which will thrash the traffic of most new (and old) sites?

    Isn't this like telling the passengers of the Titanic how to best arrange deck chairs for the best results?

  5. hello sir i have bought an old domain name and after submitting this domain name in google search console i submit sitemap then it gives couldn't fetch error and showing 48 in discovered pages which is last crawl in 2020.
    How to fix it please help me.

  6. Great video. Just a small remark: it would be more helpful if you provided the EEAT examples that are relevant to news, because the video is about news. Yours are too abstract and don't have anything to do with news. Doctors don't write news, etc.

  7. What really confuses me about Google News until now is its ability to immediately index and rank trending news even under an hour. I mean, how Google does this process? Does Google prefer these news sites with bigger reputation like CNN to appear immediately on search than this blogger who publish the news quicker, let's say 45 minutes earlier than CNN, but without reputation?

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