{"id":212560,"date":"2025-04-29T10:09:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/marketing\/google-clarifies-googlebot-news-crawler-documentation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:09:40","slug":"google-clarifies-googlebot-news-crawler-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=212560","title":{"rendered":"Google Clarifies Googlebot-News Crawler Documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"narrow-cont\">\n<p>Google updated their Google News crawler documentation to correct an error that implied that publisher crawler preferences addressed to Googlebot-News influenced the News tab in Google search.<\/p>\n<h2>Google News Tab<\/h2>\n<p>The Google News tab is a category of search that is displayed near the top of the search results pages (SERPs). The news tab filter displays search results from news publishers. Content that\u2019s shown in the news tab generally comes from sites that eligible to be displayed in Google News and must meet Google\u2019s news content policies.<\/p>\n<h2>What Changed:<\/h2>\n<p>Google\u2019s changelog noted that the user agent description was in error to say that publisher preferences influenced what\u2019s shown in the Google News tab.<\/p>\n<p><em>They explained:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe description for how crawling preferences addressed to Googlebot-News mistakenly stated that they\u2019d affect the News tab on Google, which is not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The entire section mentioning the News tab in Google Search was removed from this sentence:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCrawling preferences addressed to the Googlebot-News user agent affect all surfaces of Google News (for example, the News tab in Google Search and the Google News app).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The corrected version now reads:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCrawling preferences addressed to the Googlebot-News user agent affect the Google News product, including news.google.com and the Google News app.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the updated Googlebot-News user agent documentation here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/search\/docs\/crawling-indexing\/google-common-crawlers#googlebot-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Googlebot News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image by Shutterstock\/Asier Romero<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google updated their Google News crawler documentation to correct an error that implied that publisher crawler preferences addressed to Googlebot-News influenced the News tab in Google search. 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