Google Launches Google News Publisher Center

Google announced on the Google News blog a new portal for Google News publishers to use to help manage their news sites within Google News. The new portal is named Google News Publisher Center.

As long as your news site is verified within Google Webmaster Tools and already included in Google News, you should see them already verified and ready to manage within the Google News Publisher Center. Those sites that are not already verified, can go through the process of verification.

The publisher center enables you to:

• Update your news site details, including changing your site name and labeling your publication with any relevant source labels (e.g., “Blog”, “Satire” or “Opinion”)
• Update your section URLs when you change your site structure (e.g., when you add a new section such as https://example.com/2014commonwealthgames or https://example.com/elections2014)
• Label your sections with a specific topic (e.g., “Technology” or “Politics”)

Here is a screen shot of the dashboard:

Here is when you modify or edit your news source:

If you want to view the “sections” Google News puts your site in, you can see and manage that also:

Google has also released a help section on the Google News Publisher Center over here.