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My news site not showing in "In the news" list on Google Web Search
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I got a news website (www.tapscape.com) which is 6 years old and has been on Google News since 2012. However, whenever I publish a news article, it never shows up "In the news" list on Google Web Search. I have already added the schema.org/NewsArticle on the website and have checked it if it's working or not on Google structured data testing tool. I see everything shows on on the structured data testing tool. The site already has a news sitemap (http://www.tapscape.com/news-sitemap.xml) and has been added to Google webmaster tools.
News articles show perfectly fine in the News tab, but why isn't the articles being shown on "In the news" list on the Google web search? My site has a strong backlink background already, so I don't think I need to work on the backlinks.
Please let me know what I'm doing wrong, and how can I get it to the news articles on "In the news" list.
Below is a screenshot that I have attached to this question to help you understand what I mean to say.
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Well I'm pretty sure that the difference ain't in Schema.org as the differences there have nothing to do with the crawlability and the newsworthiness of the content. The first things I would focus on are making sure that Google can find new content as fast as possible and that your crawl-rate goes up. That's really important, and if you're convinced that is fixed then focus more attention on the authority part.
Both ain't easy to fix, but someday you'll get there!
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I got 2 more sites which are on Google News, and doesn't have much authority. Both sites articles show up "In the news" on Google Web search. However, the site in question has the highest domain authority and is the oldest in age. The other 2 don't have backlinks from any high authority website even.
The only difference between those 2 sites and the one in question is that I am using JSON-LD schema markup on the other 2 sites, while I am using Microdata schema on tapscape.com.
As we all know bing.com doesn't support JSON-LD, therefore I am using Microdata. I searched around if I could use Microdata and JSON-LD schema on one page, but everyone suggested to use one of them since it will confuse Google Bot.
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Thanks for your answer Martijn,
By considering strong backlink profile, I meant was that big sites such as Tech Crunch, Huffington Post, Engaged, Zdnet, The Verge, Computer World, Wired, and many others have published do-follow backlinks to my website articles. I heard this plays a major role in increasing a website's authority.
My domain authority of my website is 48 at the moment, not sure whats the issue.
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So the "In the news" block in the Google Search results are still powered by the normal Google Search data and not necessarily by the Google News data sets. That means you sometimes can let go of all the requirements like the news-sitemaps that are required for this. Usually authority seems to be the biggest issue to get into the block. What do you consider a strong backlink profile at the moment and could you shed some light on the industry that you're in?
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