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2- Focus on one category. (Focus on local news. You can add multiple categories, but my advice is to work on one category. Ratio should be 9:1. 9 local News and one News related to other categories)
3- Authors and publication dates should be visible on all post’s and on front page.
4- Add Privacy Policy, Editorial Policies, Advertising Policy, About Us and other pages to your primary menu and footer menu.
-> Remember, these are the pages that will be visited by Google team.
5- No Fake News and don’t use Aggregated News.
6- Create all Social Profiles and link them to your website.
7- Hosting should be good.
8- Articles length should be 150-300 word’s unique articles, no spin content. Spin or copied content are not reliable and Google will sense it.
9- While submitting, submit only for the category for which you are creating 90% articles.
10- Before submitting remember to verify your website to Google Search Console add Google Analytics code to your site and add proper redirects to your broken links.
11- Remove all sitemaps and add only “news-sitemap.xml”
These are the basics I have shared here that will increase your chances of getting approval by 98% and 2% is your luck.
I find its easier now. I’ve approved many sites on Google news. Just have to submit in publisher center. And pretty much follow the outline you mentioned above. But sometimes you don’t even need to
