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Grow your Website and YouTube with Google News

Increase website traffic and YouTube views

Ian Fan
3 min readMay 31, 2022
Photo by Luke Chesser on Unsplash

Is your site and YouTube news-worthy on Google?

Keys to ranking your content on Google is to have relevant (and trending) keywords and good SEO. In addition to that is to increase exposure on multiple social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

Then there’s Google News.

Here are three points to using Google News to increase your website’s traffic and YouTube’s views.

1. It’s not only for news

You don’t have to be a big news-based website or have a website with tons of traffic to be on Google News. Whether you’re a (small-time) blogger, news-only website owner or content marketer, you can also be on Google News.

Google News helps to increase awareness of your brand, as it has an incredibly large audience. Based on Google Chrome statistics 2021, around 2.65 billion people use Google Chrome. Among mobile users, Chrome has a market share of 62.48%. Then Google News records hundreds of millions of visits monthly — with close to 500 million visits in April, recently.

It’s important to have a niche, as it’ll help Google News when recommending your contents to it’s readers. I’ve two…

Ian Fan
Ian Fan

Written by Ian Fan

Textbook Editor turned Realtor.

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This is well worth a shot! Imagine the kind of conversion that could come from all that traffic.