# Your stories at the top of Google

> A Google News and Discover-ready news site: automatic structured data, news sitemap and fast pages. Help your stories reach the top of Google.

Skip the technical SEO settings. Ulakom publishes every story in the structure, speed and format Google expects; you focus on the content.

## Highlights

- **Google News** ready infrastructure
- **Automatic** structured data
- **Instant** sitemap
- **Green** Core Web Vitals

## Ready for search engines, fast for readers

Every story is marked up and submitted in a way Google understands the moment it's published.

- **Google News and Discover:** Your site comes with a structure that follows Google News guidelines; show up in Discover.
- **Automatic structured data:** NewsArticle schema, author, date and image data are added to every story automatically.
- **Fast pages:** Pages are optimized to score well on Google's speed metrics.
- **Automatic sitemap:** New stories are added to your news sitemap the moment they're published.
- **AI search ready:** Your content is published in a structure AI-powered search engines and assistants understand.
- **One-click sitemap submission:** Submit your sitemap to search engines from the panel in one click.

## From publish to search in three steps

1. **Publish the story:** SEO tags are ready the moment your story goes live.
2. **Google is notified:** The sitemap is updated and search engines are notified.
3. **Show up in search:** Your story appears on Google and Discover shortly after.

## Frequently asked questions

### Do I need to configure SEO?

Core SEO settings are automatic. You can also edit each story's title and description if you want.

### Do you guarantee inclusion in Google News?

Inclusion in Google News is Google's decision; we build your site with a technical structure that follows Google News guidelines.

### How soon will my story show up in search?

New stories are added to the sitemap instantly; indexing time depends on Google and is usually short.

### Will my rankings drop when I migrate?

Old URLs are redirected to new ones during migration to minimize ranking loss.

---

Source page: https://ulakom.com/en/features/seo-google-news