Google: News Keywords Tag

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Google drops support for meta news keywords tag

After years of telling publishers to use the news meta keyword tag, Google said it stopped supporting it months...

Barry Schwartz | Feb 20, 2018 at 7:08 am ET

With expanded local source tag support, local news is now more important to...

Barry Schwartz | May 9, 2016 at 9:06 am ET

“News is anything that’s interesting, that relates to what’s happening in the world, what’s happening in areas of the...

Karen DeJarnette | Oct 18, 2013 at 9:00 am ET

After seeing a 15 percent increase in Google News sources last year, a recent study conducted by SearchMetrics discovered that a majority of the...

Amy Gesenhues | Apr 30, 2013 at 11:44 am ET

Just over three months ago, Google launched the news keyword meta tag designed to let news publishers have a better chance of ranking for words...

Danny Sullivan | Dec 26, 2012 at 1:32 pm ET

It’s been about two months since Google launched a “news keywords” meta tag for news publishers. How’s it going? Why...

Danny Sullivan | Nov 26, 2012 at 2:15 pm ET

Grab your flux capacitor and fire up the Delorean, folks. We’re going back to the future: Meta keywords are back. Well, technically,...

Matt McGee | Sep 19, 2012 at 4:28 pm ET