Google and Bing treat real=canonical tag differently. Google allows using canonical tag across large number of pages, while Bing recommends using canonical tag only where it’s needed.
The following factors were deemed to be the worst things you could do it your site as relates to Google News rankings:
Top 10 Negative Google News Ranking Factors:
| # | Factor | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duplicated Content | Using plagiarized or scraped content on your |
| 2 | Vague Abstract Headlines | No/weak keyword targeting in headlines |
| 3 | No Google News Sitemap | |
| 4 | Poor Quality Content | There’s no excuse for bad writing! |
| 5 | Blocking Googlebot/Newsbot via robots or META tags | Hard to believe this still happens. Go Checkyour robots.txt ?le asap. |
| 6 | Slow Site and/or Lots of 500 Errors | |
| 7 | Poor CitationRank | Your article/site is not deemed and authority on a topic as few 3rd party
sites link to you and/or |
| 8 | Low ’PageRank” Domain | If your SEO program is not competitive, you will have a harder time
ranking in Google News |
| 9 | New Site | Sites with low/no trust/history will have a harder time |
| 10 | All Syndicated Content With The Same Titles As The Source Site |