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What are the technical requirements to be included in Google News?

Here are some of the general technical guidelines that should help our crawler find and index articles from your site:

1. Each of your pages that displays an article's full text needs to have a unique URL that doesn’t change. We can’t include sites in Google News that display multiple articles at the same URL.

2. The URL for each article must contain a unique number consisting of at least three digits. Please note that this number can't consist of only an isolated four-digit number that resembles a year.

3. Our robots can’t crawl sites for which the URL of the main page changes on a daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly basis. This prevents us from crawling the site for new content, as we are unable to detect the most current URL to be crawled.

4. Our automated crawler is currently best able to crawl regular HTML links. We're unable to crawl image links or links embedded in JavaScript, nor do we currently crawl RSS or Atom feeds.

Please be aware that there are other technical issues which may prevent us from crawling your articles. These can be found in the Technical Issues section of our Help Center.


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