Google: News Keywords Tag

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