I haven’t seen much of an improvement since making the change, but haven’t seen any negative impact I can attribute to it either. I still don’t find my articles in News, but my Google search console under News shows a few days with single digit impressions so…still just working trying to crack this code.
The Lever was started in 2020, though I’m not sure exactly when and I don’t know if they have always been on Ghost.
Thanks. I tried dropping that into mine too. We shall see…
And thx for TL info. I’m still waiting to hear back from LION but I’ve asked again.
Here’s the backstory of how I got onto Google News about 15 months after launch. I would love hear how it’s going for other people: Getting Posts Picked Up In Google News - #9 by Berkeley_Scanner
I have the same problem with my blog, but the sitemap didn’t help me, I was keep getting an “Empty Section” even tough my blog sitemap has posts with the correct format.
I ended up developing a custom solutions using RSS, here is the link to my solution (the blog is in spanish) Envía tus Post de Ghost a Google News vía RSS
Hope this help others with the same problem.