News Sitemap can be read, but has errors. Invalid Pub label, Missing Pub Tag

  • borange

    (@borange)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    I just saw this in my google webmaster search console it says I have a publication error for google news November 1st

    How do I fix this? please help I have no clue how to fix this.

    Invalid publication label

    The publication label that you selected when submitting this Sitemap does not correspond to a known publication in the Google News database. To find the current publication name and language, please check your articles as they appear in Google News. Please include this publication information in your Sitemap by updating to the new format, which involves attaching a <publication> tag and other relevant tags to each url in your Sitemap.

    Missing <publication> tag

    Each url in a News Sitemap must have a <publication> tag.

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  • Plugin Author Rolf Allard van Hagen

    (@ravanh)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, the “pub label” used by this plugin is your site name by default. If you used a different name when requesting inclusion in Google News, then you can go to Settings > Google News and enter that same name in the Publication name field.

    It must match the exact name that is currently used by Google News. If you do not remember the name you used, or somehow the error remains, then you can find out the exact name that is used by Google News by doing a search like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:yoursite.dom&tbm=nws where the publication name will be visible (in green) below each news item title, just before the publication date/time.

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