Sorry if this has already been discussed but couldn’t find anything.
Im using the newspaper for a couple of years. And we are included for some years in Google News with a couple of sites. The Google News Forum reports a lot of websites with the same issue, now we will check of this is theme based or site based. Do you guys with a Google News inclusion have the same problem?
At the moment we have issues.
Since the last algo update in november we are not ranked in the Google Search results and the Top Stories. In the news-tab we have the highest position.
Are here users with the same problem since november? We use the Yoast SEO plugin and the latest version of newspaper.
The Google News Forum reports a lot of websites with the same issue, now we will check of this is theme based or site based. Al of our sites with newspaper are since november/ december not included in the search results in the news tab.
See this example from the forum:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/news/oOqzWESQx7k;context-place=forum/news
Do you guys with a Google News inclusion have the same problem?
Thanks.
Placement in Google News based on a *lot* of factors (we have been in there with 10+ sites since the beta back in, oh, 2004?). So, they can hide news temporarily within a window of time, they can skip stories due to content (you can report a story missing if it’s in your news sitemap, not generating errors, and not running prohibited content — e.g., conflicting with AdSense rules, etc.).
Generally you can test your news sitemap, resubmit it, move to https if not already — which is now a ranking factor — as is page speed. Your desktop and mobile should both be over 90.
You can test your content is there with site:yoursite per their instructions.
But main thing is not having copycat, stale, duplicate or cloned content. Meaning, if there are 100 items in Google news about Britney Spears breaking her toe, and you’re last to party, they may skip inclusion of that item as it adds nothing to the barrage of like-content already there.
Nothing to do with theme; it’s always original content; speed; https; AMP; error-free code, etc. that impact your visibility in Google news.
And also remember you will see diff results based on browser, locale, logged in/out of Google, IP address, recent searches, etc. — there are no “static” 1,2,3 results for anything anymore.
Thanks Chris,
Do you have no problems with the top stories ranking in combination with Google News and the themeforest theme sinds november? Before december all runs well. It is now with three websites.
The rank in the Google news page is still good. The problem is that all our sites are not listed in the SERP results. Our articles still rank high on the News tab, and I haven’t noticed a warning in the partner dash. The problem is only in the top stories box and the serp.
on the Google news page all looks good.
Does anyone run into the same problem?
We did have them randomly skip two stories this morning.
This implies one of their periodic updates, such as they are in process of doing with Google Site Search (GSS). So, usually they have some “weirdness” couple of times every year.
Yes, we know. Our site is ranking fine in the Google News dashboard. Only with the top stories box we have no results. Are you well ranked in the Top Stories box for the search engine if you search for the article title of website?
Example from internet: It is this box:
http://www.zeibiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Google-In-the-News-Top-Stories.jpg
I think you have you have exact the same problem. If we search for your article tags we cannot found any news inclusion in de serp. The rank in Google News is fine.
