Lesson 1 of 1415 minAdvanced
Eligibility and Top Stories
Google News eligibility in practice
Clear authorship, dates, contact information, editorial policies and original reporting. Most rejections are transparency failures, not technical ones.
Why this lesson matters
This lesson belongs to Eligibility and Top Stories, the part of News & Publisher SEO where the goal is: qualify before optimising.
Read it once, then do it straight away on a real site inside RankAudit. Nothing here is theory for its own sake — every step produces something you can show a client.
Do it now
- 1Open RankAudit with sample data already loaded, so you are not stuck on setup.
- 2Crawl a site and triage the issue list.
- 3Audit one article template against the eligibility checklist and list every missing transparency element.