Task: News SEO and Google News: Policies and Ranking

Discover needs no special tags or structured data; it needs indexing and compliance with content policies A news sitemap and NewsArticle markup are mandatory for getting into Google News Google News policies require transparency: clear dates and bylines, information about authors, publication and publisher, contact information Ranking in Google News is algorithmically influenced by relevance, prominence, authoritativeness, freshness, usability, location and language; payments do not improve it A news sitemap should include articles older than a month