How to Add your website to Google News Publication Center

Created by vigneshwari R, Modified on Mon, 20 Nov, 2023 at 1:27 PM by vigneshwari R

Following are the steps to add your website to the Google publisher center

Step 1

Go to Google Publisher Center and enter the website URL and click 'Add' if this is the first time adding a website to the publication center

Else click 'Other Publication' from the top right dropdown as shown in the screenshot below

Step 2

Add your Website Name, URL, and Location in the pop-up window and click Add Publication

Step 3

You will now see your website visible on the top right being added
As a next step, click Open under Google News

Step 4

Click Edit and start filling in the details

Step 5

Under General, select the appropriate publication category, country, and google properties (default value - allow all properties) and click Next

Step 6

In Content settings, click New Section to add a category and corresponding RSS feed

Step 7

Provide the following,

Section Title - Category/tag name/generic/featured/any
RSS feed - corresponding category/tag/generic/featured RSS feed URL
- Category: https://demo.thepublive.com/rss/categories/category_slug
- Tag: https://demo.thepublive.com/rss/tags/tag_slug
- Generic: https://demo.thepublive.com/rss/
- Featured: https://demo.thepublive.com/rss/featured/
View access
- default value "Anyone"

Then, Click Add

Similarly, add other categories as per your requirement in the above way

After some time, all articles will be available under each category RSS feed. Click refresh to see the changes

Note: After adding RSS feed URL, it may take some time for articles to be listed

Step 8

Next, go to the Review and Publish section. Click Review as shown in the screenshot below

Enter your name, email id, title(founder/director..etc), and organization in the pop-up form and select the checkbox and click Submit

Step 9

After completing all the above steps, click Publish

Once processing is completed, your website will be visible in Google News indicated as Live

Note: Once your account is Live, kindly share the Google News listing page URL with us to enable the Google News follow us button in your website

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