I personally learned a lot from the Google News Webmaster Hangout on Google+ from a couple weeks ago and I keep pulling out pieces of that knowledge for you guys.

The next thing I learned was that if you wanted to, you can tell Google News to only crawl content they find in your sitemap file. This is called “Sitemap Only Crawl” and Stacie Chan from the Google News explained it in greater detail at the 20:50 minute mark in the video. She said:

Google actually explains this in the help center saying:

Here is the video:

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