{"id":6958,"date":"2009-04-06T21:38:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2020-05-29T18:25:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T12:55:33","slug":"create-google-news-sitemap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/create-google-news-sitemap\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create News Sitemap for Google News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to<strong> add your blog to Google news<\/strong> and showcase your articles to a huge readership? There are several technical requirements which need to be met, and a news sitemap can help you get accepted.<\/p>\n<h3>Add to Google News<\/h3>\n<p>I tried several times to get our blog accepted into Google news, but our blog always failed to meet the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/news_pub\/bin\/topic.py?hl=en&amp;topic=11665\" rel=\"noopener\">technical requirement<\/a> of Google news which requires bloggers to <strong>display a three-digit number<\/strong> in the url, which requires that each article URL must contain a <strong>unique number consisting of at least three digits &#8211;<\/strong> like\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>www.google.com\/news\/article234.html.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously most blogs cannot meet this technical requirement and it was not practical (and risky) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2020\/02\/change-wordpress-permalinks-structure\/\">change our entire site<strong> permalink structure<\/strong><\/a> to meet this criteria. But recently I noticed the requirements page was edited to include \u201c<em>this rule is waived with News sitemaps<\/em>.\u201d Now blogs do have a chance.<\/p>\n<h3>Create a News Sitemap<\/h3>\n<p>So now we could meet this technical requirement without changing the permalink structure. But when I checked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/news_pub\/bin\/answer.py?answer=74288\" rel=\"noopener\">News sitemap requirements<\/a>, it seemed really difficult to generate a news sitemap.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the news sitemap requirements were \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>only submit URLs on sites already <strong>verified <\/strong>in Google Webmaster Tools.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t include <strong>session IDs<\/strong> in URLs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Encoded <\/strong>for readability by the web server where it\u2019s located.<\/li>\n<li>Contain URLs for all articles published in the last <strong>three days<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A News sitemap can contain no more than <strong>1000 URLs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Needs article publication date in W3C format, including a <strong>timestamp<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Google News Sitemap Generator<\/h3>\n<p>We browsed around for an easy way to create a News Sitemap and found the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/google-news-sitemap-generator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google News Sitemap Generator<\/a> wordpress plugin which automatically generates a <strong>Google News XML sitemap<\/strong> for submission online via Webmaster Tools. It follows Google guidelines and has a 1000 item limit and only includes posts from the last 3 days. Keywords for news sitemap are generated from post category and post tags.<\/p>\n<p>Simply activate it, and it will generate a news sitemap for you in your root folder. Double check the sitemap link and easily suggest your site to Google news without supporting the 3 number rule.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6961\" title=\"submit news url \" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-url.gif\" alt=\"submit news url \" width=\"468\" height=\"102\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to add your blog to Google news and showcase your articles to a huge readership? 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