christopheran

Okay, thanks for getting back to me,

Chris

Hi thepotato,

Google News will now get the image from your article page.

Check that you are following these guidelines for images on this page:

https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9607104

if you follow those guidelines it should work,

Chris, Publisher Center Product Expert

Hi Jacob,

There have been a number of publishers reporting this issue on the Publisher Support help forum.

Some are using GN Publisher, others are not, so it doesn’t appear to be related to the plugin.

Google News has been informed of this issue and is investigating,

Chris
Google Publisher Center Product Expert
Original Creator of GN Publisher

Yep, I’d say you are probably right. It just takes lots of persistence to track these things down ??

Let’s keep our fingers crossed ??

What I always do and recommend to other publishers is to always make sure all of the times across the board are consistent.

Just looking now, I noticed the <meta property=”article:published_time” metatag doesn’t have the offset included. You might try that.

I know we are kind of shooting in the dark here, but it’s picking up the incorrect time somewhere…

Well, damn, I thought we were on to something there.

I’ll keep pondering on this too and will ask some of the other experts I know to find out if they see anything,

Chris

The meta tag is not schema, those two things are different, however, it may help to include the timezone offset there as well.

Here’s what I’m looking at:

https://radiomanchete.rio/golpes-do-desenrola-no-whatsapp-e-redes-sociais-roubam-dados-e-pedem-pagamentos/#:~:text=%22datePublished%22%3A%222023%2D07%2D19T20%3A45%3A18%22

What I’m suggest that you try is to include the time zone offset in that datePublished value. If you go to:

view-source:https://radiomanchete.rio/golpes-do-desenrola-no-whatsapp-e-redes-sociais-roubam-dados-e-pedem-pagamentos/

and search for: datePublished

you will see it is currently:

“datePublished”:”2023-07-19T20:45:18″

I would suggest including the time zone offset like this:

“datePublished”:”2023-07-19T20:45:18-03:00″

Without digging into your WP install, I don’t know how you would do that. I would think it might be a setting in your schema setting. I’m not sure though, when I set up a site on WP it seems to include the time zone offset by default, but maybe that’s just due to something I set up automatically without thinking about it.

Here’s Google on using time zone offset – https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/03/help-google-search-know-best-date-for#:~:text=Use%20the%20right%20time%20zone

What I’m thinking is that because there isn’t a time zone offset, Google is thinking you are using GMT time. I realize your other site is set up the same way and it’s not an issue there, but Google is goofy like that sometimes.

What I can’t figure out, with that theory, is why the displayed time is 4 hours off, not 3. In Brazil you are -3 from GMT, correct?

Anyway, I’m not positive that this will fix the problem, like I said before, you’ll have to experiment some to figure out where Google News is picking up the correct date. I’m just saying that if you were paying me to troubleshoot this, that’s where I would start,

Chris

You would be able to tell if it worked as the next time you published an article, that article would have the time correct.

Also, I think including the gmt offset for your time zone in the datePublished value in your schema may help. You might need to check with the developer of your schema plugin (or theme, if your theme includes schema) on how to do that.

Like I said above, you may have to try several things to figure out where Google is picking up that incorrect time,

Chris

Hi Lucas,

I would suggest looking at on-page factors that might be affecting the time that Google News is displaying.

If you have the ability to set your time zone in your schema data (the “datePublished” value), that might help.

And in the date under the byline, I would remove the ‘h’ that is just after the time (example: 7:41h) or remove the time there all together and just have the date. I’m thinking the ‘h’ might be throwing Google off.

It could be something else causing this, you may have to experiment some to figure out what is causing it, but I would start with those two things,

Chris
Publisher Center Product Expert
Original author of GN Publisher

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by christopheran.

Here, let me point you more specifically to the Google News guideline that you are not following perfectly:

https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9607104?hl=en&sjid=16793490707495640665-NA#:~:text=Format%20your%20images%20as%20inline.

Google News does have different requirements than Discover, they are not the same.

If you don’t understand what Google News means when they say that the image has to be inline, you might use the contact form in GN Publisher to ask for help from support, or they may chip in with additional help here. (I’m no longer the owner/manager of this plugin, just answering you here to help out),

Chris

Hi Conneriesqc,

You will need to follow the guidelines for images for Google News that are here:

https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9607104?hl=en&sjid=16793490707495640665-NA#:~:text=Prevent%20missing%20or%20incorrect%20images

I think think the one requiring images to be formatted inline is the one causing the problem. It looks like you are loading yours via javascript,

Chris

Hi Rafasantos,

I was just checking on this and it looks like the problem has either resolved itself or you found a fix.

Google News does seem to be crawling articles now for the images, so if there was a change in the article structure that may have affected things. Or sometimes the crawler has been known to pick up items incorrectly.

If you have any further trouble, take a look at: https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9607104?hl=en&sjid=9085293903025340718-NA#:~:text=Prevent%20missing%20or%20incorrect%20images and make sure you are following their suggestions,

Chris

ps: I was the original creator of GN Publisher but am no longer affiliated with it. Just here helping out when I can.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by christopheran.

@glamsham,

I’m sorry to say this, but the information that support provided to you is incorrect. I’ve been in touch with Google about the answer they gave you.

My suggestion would be to run your feed url through the RSS Validator.

If it either 1) doesn’t validate or 2) validates but has ‘invalid html’ errors, those issues will need to be fixed before the Publisher Center can process your feed,

Chris

Thanks threadi,

Sledgehammer method – I like that description. I’m working on a couple of things I’m checking into, but if most of the major seo plugins have hooks that I can use, I’ll go that way, just have to dig into them ??

Chris