{"id":692,"date":"2014-08-04T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/?guid=9ecdaefe74b338d4229a449cfcf19c20"},"modified":"2014-10-27T16:39:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:39:37","slug":"introducing-the-google-news-publisher-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/introducing-the-google-news-publisher-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Google News Publisher Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">(Cross-posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/googlenewsblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/introducing-google-news-publisher-center.html\">Google News Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Webmaster level: All<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: Great News &#8212; The Publisher Center is now available for publishers in France, Italy, Germany and Spain as well as in all 21 countries where a Google News edition is available in English. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a news publisher, your website has probably evolved and changed over time &#8212; just like your stories. But in the past, when you made changes to the structure of your site, we might not have discovered your new content. That meant a lost opportunity for your readers, and for you. Unless you regularly checked Webmaster Tools, you might not even have realized that your new content wasn\u2019t showing up in Google News. To prevent this from happening, we are letting you make changes to our record of your news site using the just launched <a href=\"https:\/\/partnerdash.google.com\/partnerdash\/d\/news\">Google News Publisher Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the Publisher Center, your potential readers can be more informed about the articles they\u2019re clicking on and you benefit from better discovery and classification of your news content. After verifying ownership of your site using Google Webmaster Tools, you can use the Publisher Center to directly make the following changes:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><b>Update your news site details<\/b>, including changing your site name and labeling your publication with any relevant source labels (e.g., \u201cBlog\u201d, \u201cSatire\u201d or \u201cOpinion\u201d)<\/li>\n<li><b>Update your section URLs<\/b> when you change your site structure (e.g., when you add a new section such as <i>http:\/\/example.com\/2014commonwealthgames<\/i> or <i>http:\/\/example.com\/elections2014<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><b>Label your sections<\/b> with a specific topic (e.g., \u201cTechnology\u201d or \u201cPolitics\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whenever you make changes to your site, we\u2019d recommend also checking our record of it in the Publisher Center and updating it if necessary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/partnerdash.google.com\/partnerdash\/d\/news\">Try it out<\/a>, or learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/news\/publisher\/topic\/3189759\">how to get started<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment the tool is only available to publishers in the U.S. but we plan to introduce it in other countries soon and add more features. &nbsp;In the meantime, we\u2019d love to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/tools\/feedback\/intl\/en\/\">hear from you<\/a> about what works well and what doesn\u2019t. Ultimately, our goal is to make this a platform where news publishers and Google News can work together to provide readers with the best, most diverse news on the web.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline-author\">Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+EricWeigleWork?rel=author\">Eric Weigle<\/a>, Software Engineer<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/blogspot\/amDG?a=zOjQcFlsPAs:oM_T4ug2tKs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/blogspot\/amDG?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/blogspot\/amDG\/~4\/zOjQcFlsPAs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">(Cross-posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/googlenewsblog.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/introducing-google-news-publisher-center.html\">Google News Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Webmaster level: All<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b>: Great News &#8212; The Publisher Center is now available for publishers in France, Italy, Germany and Spain as well as in all 21 countries where a Google News edition is available in English. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a news publisher, your website has probably evolved and changed over time &#8212; just like your stories. But in the past, when you made changes to the structure of your site, we might not have discovered your new content. That meant a lost opportunity for your readers, and for you. Unless you regularly checked Webmaster Tools, you might not even have realized that your new content wasn&rsquo;t showing up in Google News. To prevent this from happening, we are letting you make changes to our record of your news site using the just launched <a href=\"https:\/\/partnerdash.google.com\/partnerdash\/d\/news\">Google News Publisher Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the Publisher Center, your potential readers can be more informed about the articles they&rsquo;re clicking on and you benefit from better discovery and classification of your news content. After verifying ownership of your site using Google Webmaster Tools, you can use the Publisher Center to directly make the following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<b>Update your news site details<\/b>, including changing your site name and labeling your publication with any relevant source labels (e.g., &ldquo;Blog&rdquo;, &ldquo;Satire&rdquo; or &ldquo;Opinion&rdquo;)<\/li>\n<li>\n<b>Update your section URLs<\/b> when you change your site structure (e.g., when you add a new section such as <i>http:\/\/example.com\/2014commonwealthgames<\/i> or <i>http:\/\/example.com\/elections2014<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>\n<b>Label your sections<\/b> with a specific topic (e.g., &ldquo;Technology&rdquo; or &ldquo;Politics&rdquo;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whenever you make changes to your site, we&rsquo;d recommend also checking our record of it in the Publisher Center and updating it if necessary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/partnerdash.google.com\/partnerdash\/d\/news\">Try it out<\/a>, or learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/news\/publisher\/topic\/3189759\">how to get started<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment the tool is only available to publishers in the U.S. but we plan to introduce it in other countries soon and add more features. &nbsp;In the meantime, we&rsquo;d love to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/tools\/feedback\/intl\/en\/\">hear from you<\/a> about what works well and what doesn&rsquo;t. Ultimately, our goal is to make this a platform where news publishers and Google News can work together to provide readers with the best, most diverse news on the web.<\/p>\n<p><span>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+EricWeigleWork?rel=author\">Eric Weigle<\/a>, Software Engineer<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/blogspot\/amDG?a=zOjQcFlsPAs:oM_T4ug2tKs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/blogspot\/amDG?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/blogspot\/amDG\/~4\/zOjQcFlsPAs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,52,49,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced","category-beginner","category-intermediate","category-webmaster-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urlrate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}