News (publishers)

Once your site is approved for inclusion in Google News, allow a few days for your request to be processed, then follow these steps:

1. Confirm that we're including your articles
   To find articles from your site in Google News, you can use our [site:] operator. Simply enter "site:" followed by the domain of your site and click the search button. Check out our tips for searching to learn more information.

2. Add your site to the Webmaster Tools
   If you haven't done so yet, we strongly recommend that you to visit Google Webmaster Central , create a Webmaster Tools account and add your news site to it. This will allow you to view crawl error reports for your news articles and help you troubleshoot issues in the future.

3. Create a Google News sitemap
   Once your site has been processed, we encourage you to create a Google News sitemap in order to optimize the indexing of your articles.

4. Let us know when your site changes
   If you update your site or change your site's URL structure in the future, please report the update so that we can ensure your site's new information is reflected in Google News.

5. Review tips for troubleshooting your site
   If you find that there are issues with crawling your site, we encourage you to consult the technical tequirements section of our Publisher Help Center as well our troubleshooting tips .

6. Step-by-step problem solving for your site
   Need help with the news content you publish? We offer a News Troubleshooter that allows you to self-diagnose issues and get the answers you need.

7. Visit the Google News Help Forum
   Find answers, ask questions, and share your expertise with other publishers in the Google News Help Forum .