When you create a News Sitemap, you can optionally specify one or more keywords for each URL. We recommend that you specify the appropriate categories used by Google News. You can also specify other keywords if the article is relevant to topics not listed in our existing categories.
The categories currently used by Google News include:
- American Football (Sports)
- Arts (Entertainment)
- Athletics (Sports)
- Automotive (Lifestyle)
- Badminton (Sports)
- Baseball (Sports)
- Basketball (Sports)
- Books (Entertainment)
- Boxing (Sports)
- Business
- Celebrities (Entertainment)
- College Baseball (Sports)
- College Basketball (Sports)
- College Football (Sports)
- College Sports (Sports)
- Companies (Business)
- Computing (Technology)
- Cricket (Sports)
- Culture (Lifestyle)
- Cycling (Sports)
- Economy (Business)
- Education
- Entertainment
- Environment (Science)
- Field Hockey (Sports)
- Food and Beverage (Lifestyle)
- Geography (Science)
- Golf (Sports)
- Handball (Sports)
- Headlines
- Health
- High School Sports (Sports)
- Home and Garden (Lifestyle)
- Humor
- Ice Hockey (Sports)
- Industry (Business)
- Internet (Technology)
- Legal
- Lifestyle
- Local
- Markets (Business)
- Movies (Entertainment)
- Music (Entertainment)
- Nation
- Olympics (Sports)
- Op/Ed
- Personal Technology (Technology)
- Politics
- Racing (Sports)
- Religion
- Rugby (Sports)
- Satire
- Science
- Soccer (Sports)
- Space (Science)
- Sports
- Table Tennis (Sports)
- Technology
- Tennis (Sports)
- Theater (Lifestyle)
- Travel (Lifestyle)
- TV (Entertainment)
- Video Games (Technology)
- Weird News
- World
If you have additional questions, please visit our Sitemaps Protocol Google Groups discussion forum.