Google News sitemap is different from the XML sitemap you create for your Blog in wordpress. Thankfully creating sitemap for Google News is simple enough.
Google News Search is not same as Google Search or any other Search Engine for that matter. It is a special News based Search Engine which focus on bringing News items instead fo Regular Web Pages. With so many news sites popping up and diminishing demarkation between Websites and News Based sites, there is a need to draw the line.
A regular XML sitemap would not work for Search Engine submission like Google News simply because, the requirements and the target audience are different. Here are the top differences between an Regular XML Sitemap and Google News Sitemap
- News Sitemaps are updated every time you Post/Edit or Publish a post/article. Regular XML sitemap update frequency comparitively less.
- News Sitemaps contains only latest articles while Regular XML Sitemap contains an exhaustive list of articles.
- They both cannot be used in lieu of the other.
- Additional fields such as Timestamp or the Article Publication Date is absolutely necessary for News Sitemaps. It tells the Search Engine the date at which the Article first appeared on the site.
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Now that you are aware of teh difference between a Regular XML Sitemap needed by Websites/Blogs and the News Sitemap needed by Google News and other similiar provider,
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That’s a good information to share. I have a website and I use google XML sitemap to submit it to Google Webmaster tool . I have heard about google news sitemap without having proper idea about it so your blog gives me the basic idea that it is a totally different thing.