Google News

How to submit your Project Broadsheet publication to Google News Publisher Center and qualify for inclusion in Google News and Top Stories.

Google News and the Top Stories carousel in Google Search are separate surfaces from organic search results. To appear in them, your publication must be approved through Google News Publisher Center. Project Broadsheet ships with everything Google News requires technically — a news sitemap, structured data, and well-formed RSS feeds — but you must submit and be reviewed before articles are eligible to appear.

Technical requirements (already met)

Project Broadsheet generates all of these automatically:

• News sitemap at /news-sitemap.xml — indexes articles published within the last 48 hours with publication name, language, and publication date.
• Article structured data — NewsArticle JSON-LD on every article page, including headline, author, date published, and date modified.
• RSS feeds — one sitewide feed and one per editorial section.
• HTTPS — required. All recommended hosts (Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel) issue certificates automatically.

See News sitemap for how the sitemap is built.

Before you apply

Google News has editorial standards. Before submitting:

• Publish at least five to ten articles on the live site. An empty or near-empty site will be rejected.
• Ensure each article has a clear byline, a publication date, and substantive original content.
• Verify your site has an About page, a contact method, and a Privacy Policy.
• Confirm your custom domain is live (a .pages.dev or .netlify.app subdomain will not be accepted).

Submit to Publisher Center

1. Go to news.google.com/publisher-center and sign in with a Google account.
2. Click Add publication.
3. Enter your publication name and URL.
4. Google will scan your site and verify ownership.

Verify ownership

Publisher Center will ask you to verify that you own the domain. The easiest method is through Google Search Console — if you've already verified your site there, Publisher Center can confirm ownership instantly. If not, see Google Search Console to set that up first.

Publication settings

Once access is granted, configure the following in Publisher Center:

• Publication name — must match the name on your site.
• Language and country — Google uses this to route your content to relevant readers.
• Sections — map your editorial sections to Publisher Center content categories (e.g., News, Opinion, Technology).
• News sitemap URL — enter https://yourdomain.com/news-sitemap.xml.

Review timeline

Google's review process is manual and typically takes one to four weeks. You'll receive an email when a decision is made. Rejections include a reason; most are resolved by publishing more content or fixing a missing About or Privacy Policy page.

What to do next

• Google Search Console — verify ownership and monitor search performance.
• News sitemap — how the news sitemap is generated and what it includes.
• Structured data — the JSON-LD schema on article pages.