SEO for Google News

Google's upcoming Page Experience update will introduce Core Web Vitals as ranking factors and remove the AMP requirement from mobile Top Stories.

May 28

Success in Top Stories is about more than just writing great headlines. The technology that delivers your articles to search engines is a large part of…

Apr 13

In today's newsletter I want to talk about the main areas of focus for SEO in publishing, and how organisations can improve their internal SEO function…

Mar 4

Having the right featured image to accompany your articles is an increasingly valuable SEO element, directly impacting the article's visibility in sear…

Feb 1

Once again, news publishers have been negatively affected by an algorithm update in Google search. Let's talk about these updates and what they mean fo…

Dec 9, 2020

An article headline may seem a singular thing, but in the context of websites and SEO there are actually at least four different headlines for every ar…

Nov 26, 2020

You may be surprised to learn where most of the Google traffic to publishers actually comes from.

Nov 18, 2020

An irregular newsletter with tips and updates for anyone interested in optimising news publishers for Top Stories & Google News.

Nov 16, 2020

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