Moritz Serif helps when articles no longer appear in Google News and the Top Stories boxes. He is the owner of a solo SEO agency for publishers with a focus of 100 percent on publishers, and he finds the cause before anyone starts optimising.
He trained as a journalist and as an SEO and spent years in newsrooms as an editor, managing editor and in-house SEO, including live operations during major news events.
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Profile
Moritz Serif is a trained journalist and SEO with 8 years of experience. He has experienced losses in Google News himself inside newsrooms as in-house SEO and managing editor, and today he analyses them for publishers from the outside.
Results
Help with losses in Google News finds the cause and brings articles back into the news index and the Top Stories boxes as soon as the site fixes the problems. Moritz Serif helped a news portal that had fallen to 9,000 clicks a day earn several hundred thousand clicks a day again by year end, after we fixed the technical basics, rebuilt authority and stopped republishing without substance.
Testimonial
“Moritz comes from the newsroom, and you can tell in his SEO work. In an SEO audit he showed us where we were giving away traffic potential.
He put his finger right on the sore spot, and that is exactly what moved us forward, including on Google Discover.”
Translated from German.
Who it is for
Help with losses in Google News is for every newsroom whose articles no longer appear in the News tab or the Top Stories boxes and that wants to know the cause before optimising.
Services
Check whether your site is still in the news index, whether the publication is verified in Publisher Center and whether Google recognises the news section.
Check the news sitemap with the articles of the last 48 hours and the NewsArticle schema; markup errors often block inclusion in the Top Stories box.
Check publication times, freshness windows and headlines – the who, what, where belongs up front, clickbait lowers visibility.
Find out which topics your site held authority for and where E-E-A-T signals such as author profiles and sources are missing.
Track down new URLs without content updates, plus republishing hygiene, Core Web Vitals, indexing and crawling.
Train newsrooms so the recovery holds – workflow, headlines, sitemaps.
Cost
That depends entirely on your project – on its scope and on whether you are a large publishing house or a solo publisher. Solo publishers do not have to keep up with large publishers. We define the scope in a free initial call, followed by a concrete proposal.
Feel free to reach out, and we will take it from there.
Process
From the first news check to the start, this is how a collaboration works step by step:
First we check index status, news sitemap and Top Stories boxes of your site, also after a Google core update.
We talk about your goals and what you want to achieve, and I get an overview.
You book Moritz Serif for a single project or for ongoing support.
An email to [email protected] is enough. I get back to you within 24 hours.
More questions
Thirty minutes. Together we check why your articles no longer appear in Google News and what holds the Top Stories boxes back.
Book a free initial call