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In March 2025, Google News fully transitioned to automatically-generated publication pages. There’s no application nor sign-up process to get an automatically-generated publication page and not every site will have an automatically-generated publication page.

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Please note, content from publishers that adheres to our content policies is automatically eligible for consideration in Google News and across news surfaces

In addition to following the guidance above, make sure Google can crawl and index your site. Our systems run regularly and will automatically detect if a site has risen to better meet the criteria. Learn more about how news works on Google.

Please also note that sites may experience less predictable traffic patterns during a core update’s rollout. Please also take a look at this Google Search Central post and Keyword Blog post about core updates, as these address many of the questions we get from webmasters after we make core updates. *

We recommend reviewing and following the site move best practices to ensure your site migration goes smoothly.

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