Google’s SEO Best Practices For News Websites

Get the latest SEO, PPC, content marketing, and social media news delivered daily. [Read More]( [Read More]( [SEJTODAY]( Brought to you by: [Read More]( Tuesday, May 16, 2023 [Read the Article]( News, SEO [Google’s SEO Best Practices For News Websites]( By Matt G. Southern Google Search Advocates Daniel Waisberg and Cherry Prommawin recently shared valuable insights in a video on best practices for news websites. Google aims to help news organizations increase their content's visibility and drive more traffic. Here's what the Search Advocate team advises to gain a more substantial presence on Search and News surfaces. Waisberg and Prommawin begin the video by clarifying how news content can be featured on Google. They highlighted two key places where Google News content can appear - the Top Stories and the News tab. 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