Website Indexing and Deindexing on Google News

[chms]

My website was regularly indexed on Google News.

However, in the last few weeks, the indexing process for news has become significantly slower. What used to take about 5 minutes now lasts approximately an hour. Additionally, the website gets indexed for a few hours, then drops out of the index, and this cycle repeats. In contrast, the site remains consistently indexed in standard Google searches, typically within 5 minutes after it was published.

Does anyone know what might be causing these indexing issues on Google News?

Regards

[not2easy]

It sounds like the same thing that is happening to many sites right now. There have been changes to Google News, News Showcase and Discovery for the past few months, and it has picked up again recently. We have seen more discussions about slower indexing in the past few weeks.

This discussion (not described as a news site) includes an official video explanation of how Google is currently indexing pages in general: [webmasterworld.com...]

[chms]

Thank you @not2easy for your response.

The issue at hand, besides the time to index in news, is the erratic indexing behavior of URLs on Google News. They can be indexed initially, only to be deindexed a few hours later, and then reindexed once again. It's a peculiar situation.

I often go to bed with all the day's content fully indexed, to wake up and find that half of it has been deindexed. Then, just a few hours later, it might be reindexed. This fluctuation can be as rapid as being indexed one moment, not indexed the next five minutes, and then back to being indexed five minutes after that.

And always in Google news, in regular results always is indexed in five minutes since I put the content online.