Introduction

Thousands of WordPress sites. Want to reach to the top of the search result? To reach to all potential viewers, to bring more & more SEO traffic in your site, to compete with all the excellent WordPress sites around your, you will need to  submit your site to Google News, is a great opportunity to get ahead of others.

Google News

It is a news aggregator service developed by Google. From the beginning Google News has been largest news aggregator till date that curates a customizable flow of recent news articles and stories from the last 30 days. It is serving content from over 75,000 sources in 62 languages across the world. This articles appear at the top of search results, as well as in their own dedicated news tab in Google, the “News tab” in the SERP page.  Also in the “Top stories” section in the SERP page. 

Reasons to submit on Google News

Advantages of appear on Google News

• To top on the SERP page on Google
• To increase brand awareness & spreading the brand name of desirable site.
• To create more & more organic traffic, those who in return will boost your SEO score.
• Google News search result will be added with general search, in total it will higher the ranking in Google overall search.
• Support of domain authority will enhance chance to get the link more visible to public & potential viewers.
• Credibility of the site will improve.

Essential requirement to submit on Google News

There are several technical requirements and quality guidelines for WordPress, when you are using a normal theme-

• Google news sitemap is very useful, but a SEO plugin most of the time do the work.
• Google increasingly prefers to digest news content from feed formats (such as RSS/Atom), our News SEO plugin do the heavy lifting of structuring and formatting the feeds which WordPress already generates.
• A contact page listing contact legitimate information such as your address, phone numbers and or email addresses. 
• A page listing all of your editorial staff, it’s probably wise to make this a listing of author profiles and make sure your author profiles are rich. Make sure your description is at least 140 characters.
• In the submission form, Google will ask for the categories that apply to your content, it’s probably wise to make this a select group of quality category pages. Using the drop-down menu, you need to categorize your site by the type of content it offers. This will help readers find your content easier.
• In the Google Analytics tracking ID for app window, you can add Google Analytics tracking information for both your app and for AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages). You also have the option to add third-party tracking pixels.

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