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Workshop · Half a day to 2 days

Google Discover & News Feed Workshop.

Your editors learn how stories reach the Google Discover and News feeds, and test it on their own articles.

For

  • Editors-in-chief
  • Editors and desk heads
  • SEO editors
  • Audience teams

Is this you?

  • Discover traffic swings nobody can explain
  • Strong stories that never reach the feed
  • No view of Discover next to Search and News

You walk away with

  • Your Discover and News baseline from Search Console
  • Discover best practices for headlines, images and timing
  • A feed checklist for your article template
  • SEO tests re-measured over time

What we cover

  • Traffic status: Discover, Google News and Search side by side
  • How Discover picks content: interests, content policies, eligibility
  • Headlines and previews that name what the story delivers
  • Images: 1200 px wide, max-image-preview:large, og:image
  • Timeliness, storytelling and evergreen content for the feed
  • Discover Performance report in Search Console: impressions, clicks, CTR
  • Reading traffic swings after updates
  • Your own articles, rewritten and measured

From real workshops

  • TV news channel, 2024: Discover and News training, re-measured three times.
  • National tabloid: workshops in 2017, 2023 and 2024, plus a Discover benchmark against competitors.