Google news publisher center

  1. How Google is supporting local news organizations
  2. Google News Showcase coming to the US and updates to follow tab on Google News
  3. Satellite photos show US East Coast engulfed by smoke from Canadian wildfires
  4. Google for Publishers
  5. How to Submit Your WordPress Site to Google News
  6. Google challenges OpenAI’s calls for government A.I. czar
  7. A Guide to Optimizing for Google News, Top Stories, and Discover


Download: Google news publisher center
Size: 70.67 MB

How Google is supporting local news organizations

Before I joined Google, I worked in a number of roles in local news, including as a news director in Flagstaff, Arizona. Working in radio solidified my love of local stories; our news helped people understand what was going on in their community and how it would impact their families. Now, I work daily to find ways to support local news organizations, working with our teams at Google on trainings, funding and product solutions for local journalists and news publishers. Our goal is to help them build sustainable businesses, connect with readers and engage audiences. To help address these challenges, today we’re announcing a number of new ways we’re investing in local news organizations in the U.S. More investment to support local news in the U.S. The Publishers that are members of This announcement builds on other GNI “For a number of years the National Association of Hispanic Publications has been proud to partner with the Google News Initiative team to build programs that enable publishers to overcome gaps in digital readiness,” says Alvaro Gurdián Jr., Vice President of the NAHP. “Those programs strengthened, and in some cases created, digital revenue streams and put our publishers on a path to sustainability. This new initiative will supercharge those results and impact the entire industry, and all of the communities we serve.” "Our members have proven themselves indispensable to the communities they serve, boasting devoted and substantial local audiences because of the...

Google News Showcase coming to the US and updates to follow tab on Google News

• SEO • > All SEO • > What Is SEO? • > Google algorithm updates • > Ecommerce • > Content • > Enterprise • > Link building • > Local marketing • > SEO Periodic Table • > All topics • PPC • > All PPC • > What is PPC? • > Paid search • > Paid social • > Video • > PPC Periodic Table • > All topics • Platforms • > Google • > Amazon • > Apple • > DuckDuckGo • > Meta • > Microsoft • > Pinterest • > Shopify • > Snapchat • > TikTok • > Twitter • > WordPress • > YouTube • > All platforms • SMX • Awards • Webinars • Intelligence reports • White papers • Newsletter • About • > About Search Engine Land • > Newsletter • > Third Door Media • > Advertise • > Staff • Chat Google News Showcase is coming to the US this summer; this is after Google News Showcase in US. Google Follow tab on Google News. Google is also updating the follow tab on Google News, to help “local publications surface more frequently on Google News and give readers an easier way to nd the news that maers to them,” Google wrote. The new and updated Follow feature will be available globally on Android soon and then expand to iOS later this year, Google said. Here is what it looks like, you can see the follow button in the footer of the Google News app: Reader Revenue Manager. Google also re-announced the Google Reader Revenue Manager which we covered A new survey feature is coming to Reader Revenue Manager that helps publishers ask their readers questions to help then better understand their demographic profile and inte...

Satellite photos show US East Coast engulfed by smoke from Canadian wildfires

The beige-tinged haze can be seen in imagery captured by the weather forecasting Boston-based air-quality researcher Sotirios Papathanasiou shared an eerie photograph of a setting sun surrounded by a neon-bright orange halo Tuesday evening, explaining that the sight is more dangerous than mesmerizing. "Many will think that this is a nice sunset but in reality this is a toxic sunset as it indicates the presence of tiny particles in the atmosphere and in the breathable air," Papathanasiou said in a tweet. "Don’t stay outside for a long time and wear N95 masks." Related: NASA's new air pollution sensor will monitor smog above America in real time The U.S. weather satellite GOES East observes toxic smoke from Canadian wildfires spread across the U.S. Northeast. (Image credit: NOAA) NASA researcher Ryan Stauffer said that concentrations of tiny ash particles in the atmosphere — the so-called PM 2.5s — in New York, Philadelphia and other cities in the region will likely hit record highs on Wednesday. "The smoke PM2.5 values coming in this evening are extraordinary," Stauffer said in a tweet on Tuesday evening. "Today and tomorrow will rival, and in some cases may surpass the event of record for the region, July 7th 2002." According to NBC News, air quality alerts have been put in place in 13 U.S. states as of Wednesday morning. See more The air pollution comes from smoke generated by dozens of wildfires that have been blazing through the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Nova Sco...

Google for Publishers

"It’s important to keep my content free because it’s really critical information for people to see when they’re traveling. Plus, there are already so many barriers for people with disabilities, for me to add another by gating content with a paywall wouldn’t feel right." - Curb Free with Cory Lee Watch Video "Digital advertising helps to fund the organization, but it also helps us create impact on the world. One of the key things that attracted me to World Surf League was the core value system, particularly around sustainability. If we are benefitting at all from a sport that gets played in the ocean it’s our responsibility to give back and protect that environment so it’s there for future generations." - World Surf League Watch Video

How to Submit Your WordPress Site to Google News

Do you want to know how to submit your WordPress site to Google News? Submitting your site to Google News is a great opportunity to get ahead of your competition and start the new year ready to crush it in your niche. With Google News, you can break news quickly and efficiently. It’s a smart way to improve your site’s authority and increase search engine rankings. That’s exactly what we’re here to help you with, so in this post, we’ll explain how to submit your WordPress site to Google News. Since this is a comprehensive post, we’ve created a table of content so that you can easily navigate and jump to the sections you want: • • • • • • What Is Google News? Google News hand selects a flow of recent news articles and stories from the last 30 days. The news is sourced from all over the world. The prime objective of Google News is to give recent updates to its readers, and it consists of all types of news, including Global and local reports. Additionally, Google News articles appear at the top of search results, as well as in their own dedicated news tab in Google, which makes these publications far more likely to get clicked on. Here’s what Google News looks like: The news content is organized into categories, depending on your location and language settings. As a reader, you can customize the feed to cover stories you are interested in. Why Should You Submit Your Website to Google News? You may wonder why you should submit your website to Google News? The simple answer is t...

Google challenges OpenAI’s calls for government A.I. czar

CSET’s Helen toner provided expert insights in an article published by CNBC about the contrasting views of Google and OpenAI regarding the regulation of artificial intelligence by the U.S. government. Regarding the debate over AI regulation, Toner stated, “There is this question of should there be a new agency specifically for AI or not?” She further added, “Should you be handling this with existing regulatory authorities that work in specific sectors, or should there be something centralized for all kinds of AI?” Read the full article in

A Guide to Optimizing for Google News, Top Stories, and Discover

To make this even more complex, Google only provides dedicated reporting on some – but not all – of these News-related features through Google Search Console and Google Analytics. This leaves some mystery about precisely where in the search results a given article might be driving traffic and impressions. Google offers guidelines around how to appear in products like Google News and Discover. However, these documents are often technical in nature (such as this example of Google’s While some guidelines exist, it’s hard to find specific advice in Google’s documentation about how best to structure and optimize content for performance in Google News or Discover. In order to understand how your sites perform in News, Discover, and related features, it is best to analyze the performance of your own content to see what works and what doesn’t. In this column, you’ll learn about the various Google SERP features that display recent or trending news and find tips on how to optimize and report on them. I’ll also include some aggregated data and insights related to my own clients’ performance across these features. Google News Historically, publishers had to manually submit their sites for approval in Google News via the However, Google recently updated its guidelines about which sites are eligible to appear in Google News. As of December 2019, the documentation quietly changed: Hidden among this barrage of Publisher Center updates, this is quite a shock: "Publishers no longer need to ...