Google News Category Exclusion

  • In the development version some of the categories excluded from news are being fetched by Google news bot- not sure why, we want some of our categories to be excluded from Google news, even though I have de-selected some categories for sitemap-news and apparently they are not listed in the sitemap-news, but still Google is picking them up as news. Do you know why?

    Site: https://www.valuewalk.com

    Any idea?

    Also any idea for news categories exclusion option in your new version?

    Thanks in adv!

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  • Hi,are you sure no posts from the excluded category showed up in the news sitemap? This might happen when posts are assigned to both an included and an excluded category at the same time for example… Can you verify if this might be the case for these unwanted posts that where picked up by Google News?

    If that is not what went wrong then I have no idea why it happened. I can only guess Google News does not limit itself to the News Sitemap an d takes the liberty to include other content that’s interesting enough… In which case you might want to ask GN support if the is a way to prevent content from being included.

    Please keep me informed either way, your case is an interesting one ?

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