Technical requirements

To crawl and surface your content in Google News, the layout and format of your site must be easy for our crawler to read and decipher.

Before you submit your site for inclusion in Google News, review our guidelines and requirements in the following articles. 

Requirements for site structure

• Permanent section pages
• Accessible content
• Languages and encoding
• Different domains

Requirements for individual article pages

• Article URLs
• Page layout guidelines
• Requirements for registration and subscription sites