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How people get a page in Google news?

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: short answer — there is no magic trick; Google News looks for consistently newsworthy editorial content plus a clean, crawlable site. was right that you must use Google’s publisher tools to request inclusion, and ’s experience of being in and out is common: acceptance is ongoing, not permanent.

Practical checklist to improve chances:

  • Editorial: publish original, timely reporting or clear news aggregation with sources. Use bylines, full author pages, timestamps, and an obvious editorial/contact/about page.
  • Technical: serve full article HTML (not hidden by JavaScript), use stable permalinks, canonical tags, and ensure robots.txt does not block news sections.
  • Structured metadata: include clear title, published/updated dates, author, and Article structured data so crawlers understand content.
  • Submission & verification: verify ownership in Google tools and register your publication/sections via Google’s publisher interface or a news sitemap.
  • UX & policy: limit intrusive ads and interstitials, avoid scraped/duplicate content, and follow Google News content policies (hate, spam, etc.).

If you get listed and then dropped: check Google’s messages/manual actions, recent site changes, robots.txt, sitemap errors, or a sudden rise in low-quality pages or ads. Review server logs to confirm whether Googlebot-News is crawling and whether it sees the same content users see. Fix problems, improve editorial standards, and request re-review if the publisher interface offers that option.

Expect weeks for review and plan for continuous editorial work — inclusion is earned and maintained.

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You can submit your site for review here:

However, I believe that you site has to be very big for them to include.

Hope this helps.

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If you can figure it out, let me know. DaniWeb has been included in and then kicked out of and then reincluded in Google News more times than I can count.

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