Hey, my site has been approved for Google News (yay!) but the snippets that come up are wrong, they include the share features in the snippet, has anyone had this issue and know how to fix it?
Here’s the results in Google News: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=google+news+eurowire&oq=google+news+eurowire&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l2j69i64.4063j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=google+news+eurowire&tbm=nws
The main site: http://eurowire.com/
Hi,
Please provide more details as I cannot see any problems with the snippets. Please provide a screenshot and point out what is wrong so we can have an idea on how to help.
Thank you!
Note that Google News is going through a re-indexing right now and will show bizarro results from some sites as they “respider” your content.
I know of several sites where things like the category tag above the headline was showing as part of headline on the results in GN; but wasn’t happening last month, or last year. Or, the author byline was the headline! Etc.
They are also picking up a lot of things like the pages where there is a “related” story at bottom or side, in lieu of the ‘actual’ page where the news is !
So – upshot it looks like they may be trying to phase out the old “scraper bot” or maybe the XML sitemap system is down, and it has “fallen back” to using the full page scraper.
We have also been seeing images being skipped for no good reason.
It’s not just you, but also not theme specific.
Upshot: GN ‘should’ be pulling from your Google News Sitemap — and if the data is messed up there then it will cause issue. If it’s NOT, then it means they are bypassing that and going with the pesky old scraperbot which tries to guess where headline is, even if it’s shown as the headline in the page source (duh!).
Not sure that helps. But we’ve been in GN since it was in beta 12 years ago, so have suffered most of the zigs and zags. I am guessing they are trying to figure out something to integrate AMP in some way, or maybe just they’re having some other transitional thing.
