Bing announced you can now submit your news site, like this one, to Bing News at the new Bing News PubHub.
When you go to Bing News PubHub, you can fill out the form as I screen shot below, to submit your news site to Bing. Here is a screen shot of the form:
To be accepted, first you need to make sure your site is verified in Bing Webmaster Tools and that the site is in accordance with Bing Webmaster guidelines.
Then Bing will review your site and see if they want to include it in Bing News.
Here is their internal criteria:
- Newsworthiness – Report on timely events and topics that are interesting to users. Content that doesn’t focus on reporting, such as how-to articles, job postings, advice columns, product promotions, is not considered newsworthy. Similarly, content that consists strictly of information without including original reporting or analysis, such as stock data and weather forecasts, is not considered newsworthy.
- Originality - Provide unique facts or points of view. Faced with numerous sources frequently reporting similar or identical content, originality or uniqueness becomes a critical way to determine the value to a user of an individual story.
- Authority – Identify sources, authors, and attribution of all content. News sites with authority maintain the highest level of trust and respect from our users.
- Readability – Create content with correct grammar and spelling, and keep site design easy for users to navigate. Advertising should never interfere with the user experience.
