Google News: Another drop in visibility
27. March 2024A few weeks ago, we already reported on Google’s indexing problems at the end of January and beginning of February. Apparently there was also a drop in visibility in Google News at the beginning of February. We show which publishers were affected in this blog post.
The problem with indexing around January 31 and February 1 calmed down after just one week. Previously, our index rate showed that articles from many publishers in various countries weren’t being indexed. Now we have been able to identify visibility losses for some publishers in Google News.
Most affected: Swiss Publishers
Visibility fell significantly for blick.ch, 20min.ch and nau.ch in particular in the week from 29.1. to 4.2.2024. These three publishers have barely recovered from the drop in visibility since then. In contrast, srf.ch was able to increase and maintain this higher visibility. This means that blick.ch is still the most visible in Google News, but it is now followed by srf.ch and then 20min.ch.
Also the Publisher in French-speaking Switzerland are affected
Here, eight of the top 10 most visible publishers have fallen in visibility. These primarily include rts.ch, 20min.ch and bluewin.ch, but lematin.ch, 24heures.ch and watson.ch have also lost visibility. Only lemonde.fr and lefigaro.fr were able to increase their visibility between January and February.
Also publishers from other countries are affected
For example, in Germany t-online.de were particularly badly affected, but they were able to increase its visibility in Google News again in the second week of February.
In Austria, two publishers were particularly badly affected: krone.at and heute.at. Neither has yet been able to regain visibility in Google News.
Individual publishers in the USA have also been affected. In particular, the-sun.com has lost a lot of visibility in Google News and has not been able to regain visibility since.
Takeaways
Either the first signs of the Google Core Update March can be seen here or the problems in indexing have had an impact on visibility in Google News. However, we will also be monitoring developments in connection with the March 2024 Google core update.
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