News Sitemap

A news sitemap is a specialized XML sitemap that provides Google News with metadata about news articles published on a site, including publication name, language, publication date, and article title. It must include articles published within the last 48 hours and is a requirement for websites seeking inclusion in Google News.

News sitemaps are submitted through Google Search Console's Sitemaps report and validated using Google's Sitemap testing tools. News-specific indexing performance — including which articles appear in Google News and Top Stories — is tracked in Google Search Console's Performance report filtered by Search Type: News.