The Google News team has suggested Eight very powerful tips which you can use in your website to get crawled by Google News more effectively. Keep the article body clean

Make sure article URLs are permanent and unique

Take advantage of stock tickers in Sitemaps

Check your encoding

Make your article publication dates explicit

Keep original content separate from press releases

Format your images properly

Article Titles in Google News

via [Google News Blog]

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