Is it possible on blogger platform to submit a specific category posts to Google News?
I searched and found that I need a specific sitemap for Google News but since I am on blogger platform I am wondering if it can be done?
I saw some sites on blogspot.com appears in Google News but their sitemap seems to me normal when I access using /sitemap.xml
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
It's possible to retrieve a feed for a specific label. From the Blogger Help Center:
Atom 1.0: http://www.googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/[label]
RSS 2.0: http://www.googleblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/[label]?alt=rss
Unfortunately Google News requires specific tag definitions that can't be manipulated in the feed (Blogger side). The information for the required tags <publication>, <publication_date> and <title> is provided in the feed, but the markup is different. Giving that fact I would reccomend you to try to send the sitemap, you've got nothing to lose.
Take into account that it's possible to workaround the guideline "Your News Sitemap should contain only URLs for your articles published in the last two days" using the max-results param in the feed, where constant NUMBER is a mean/approximate/goal of the number of posts published in a timeframe of two days.
Atom 1.0: /feeds/posts/default/-/[label]?max-results=NUMBER
RSS 2.0: /feeds/posts/default/-/[label]?alt=rss&max-results=NUMBER