If you cover politics, you’ll want to see who won search visibility for Anthony Scaramucci blow-up. And if you cover sports, you’ll want to see the same for the 2017 PGA Championship golf tournament.

Using the News Dashboard tool, we looked at who reached the highest search visibility for:

– Former White House communications director Scaramucci and a short list of related keywords (which you can see at the bottom of this post) on the day of his firing – Monday, July 31, 2017.

– Which publisher had the best performance each day on Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 12-13, 2017, during the tournament based on a list of 14 keywords.

This analysis follows the same format as looking into which publishers topped Google News search visibility for O.J. Simpson’s parole hearing. You can also use the News Dashboard for Google News optimization of your articles.

If you’re in charge of news SEO and Google News optimization for politics and sports coverage, check out who’s getting ranked on top.

Scaramucci: Mobile vs. Desktop Google News Box

Anthony Scaramucci’s short tenure as White House communications director led to a busy Google News day.

As we often see in desktop search visibility, more traditional publications – such as those with a print and broadcast background – tend to rank higher. At least two of the publishers in the Top 5 here mainly cover politics, while the other three are known for their political coverage.

nytimes.com – 22.32 percent

cnn.com – 19.77 percent

nationalreview.com – 16.24 percent

thehill.com – 12.43  percent

usatoday.com – 10.59 percent

When we switch over to the mobile News Box, three of the publishers cross over. Only USA TODAY switches position, going from No. 5 to No. 1.

Search visibility in the mobile Google News Box exploded after Scaramucci’s firing.

usatoday.com– 50 percent

cnn.com – 37.99 percent

washingtonpost.com – 33.47 percent

thehill.com – 33.05 percent

pagesix.com – 26.55 percent

As Scaramucci has been a news figure in New York for years before taking his short-lived government positions, it’s possible that the New York Times and Page Six (part of the New York Post) may have had a leg up in the desktop and mobile News Boxes with prior coverage.

Scaramucci: Mobile Visibility Overall

This KPI Dashboard report measures visibility in News Box Headline, News Box Text, News Box Carousel, Publisher Carousel and Newsticker. You can choose one or more of those options for the analysis, and can add in organic search results, as well. We chose the configuration below to get the best overview of search visibility for mobile across news-related ranking types.

The field for the Top 5 publishers of the Scaramucci keyword set in Mobile Visibility Overall narrowed somewhat on the day he was actually fired.

usatoday.com – 50 percent

cnn.com– 43.08 percent

washingtonpost.com – 42.94 percent

thehill.com– 33.05 percent

nytimes.com – 32.63 percent

All of these publishers also appeared in the Top 5 for search visibility in either Desktop or Mobile News Boxes for the Scaramucci keyword set, or both – as we looked at earlier in the post. Specifically, appearing in the Top 5 for mobile Google News Box tends to make those publishers more likely to appear in other mobile ranking types. So, more traditional publishers that have also established themselves in mobile can achieve significant search visibility there, as well.

Championship: Desktop News Box

The search visibility for most of the Top 5 publishers in desktop Google News Box for the 2017 PGA Championship keyword set remains quite steady into the last two days of the tournament.

Much like the political publishers and the Scaramucci story, sports publishers and, unsurprisingly, golf-specific websites that rank in Google News top the Desktop News Box visibility for the championship, which saw first-timer PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas take the crown. One SB Nation writer has called the 24-year-old Thomas “a new face of American golf.”

Aug. 12

cbssports.com – 37.65 percent

golfdigest.com – 34.97 percent

golf.com – 22.4 percent

usatoday.com– 19.79 percent

sbnation.com – 14.43 percent

Aug. 13

cbssports.com – 36.98 percent

golf.com – 33.63 percent

golfdigest.com – 30.73 percent

usatoday.com – 20.16 percent

sbnation.com– 14.29 percent

Over both days, there was only one change: golf.com overtook golfdigest.com on Sunday, Aug. 13. Such a tight field of competitors, especially in the top three spots, indicates the high interest in the event over those two days.

Championship: Publisher Carousels

When we took a look at Publisher Carousels – a Google News ranking type on mobile that collects multiple articles on a keyword from the same publisher – we saw an interesting change in the Top 5 websites. PGAtour.com, the official website of the tour itself and not mainly a sports journalism outlet, made it into the Top 3 on both days we measured.

Publisher Carousels often appear for long-term stories that update often, such as a major golf tournament, as is the case with the 2017 PGA Championship.

Aug. 12

golfchannel.com – 37.13 percent

golfdigest.com – 27.9 percent

pgatour.com – 22.79 percent

cbssports.com – 21.41 percent

timeinc.net (time.com AMP) – 15.13 percent

Aug. 13

golfchannel.com – 38.2 percent

pgatour.com– 23.61 percent

cbssports.com – 18.81 percent

timeinc.net (time.com AMP) – 17.85 percent

golfdigest.com – 12.09 percent

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