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Hi Claudio, thanks again for your response!

Sorry, this was my first Moz question and its my bad thinking this isnt a newbie Q&A type forum. I should have been more detailed in my questioning.

Thanks for your advice, I will keep that in mind if I ask another question in the future!

Hi Andy, thanks again for your response!

To get listed in Google News, you need to be a publisher. We are publishers, I am just looking for tips on the best optimisation tactics.

You are right it is based on a number of factors, I think its 732 Do you know any of the secret ones that are not common knowledge or ones not listed on the support.google.com site?

Thanks for your answers so far! But I was hoping to get a better answer than a support.google.com link

We have a few sport news websites that are picked up by Google News.

Once in a blue moon, one of our articles ranks for a great keyword and shows in one of the 3 listings that Google News has in SERPS.

Any tips on how we can we optimise more of our articles to compete in these 3 positions?