Our articles are getting pulled into google news with the category names instead of the title itself. Here are 2 snapshots to show what is happening. This is even after I used data highlighter to try and fix the problem.
Known issue with Google’s news bot ‘scraping’ page vs using your news xml sitemap.
Only solution I found on all our sites was to NOT have category names above the headline, and instead move those to bottom of page.
Not specific to theme, but an issue with how Google ‘reads’ the page, sometimes badly!
Well dang. Thanks. Yeah weird how it does not happen all of the time.
I noticed it again when we updated from Newsmag 1.7 to 3.1 last Fall and forgot to “move” the “category” links to bottom above the tags. Suddenly we had “National news” in front of headlines, and couple of breadcrumbs as the title in Google News. Really dumb since they have a news XML sitemap, validated in search console. Kind of like how you can have two photos on page, make second one the one in your news sitemap (e.g., featured), and yet often the FIRST photo will still show up in google news.
After 12 years in Google News, I learn to “work around” the dumbness sometimes.
