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Hi,

The Domain Authority metric is only updated every couple of months. So that's why it could be that overtime it can drop a bit more then usual. What are you seeing of a kind of drop?

I think the biggest difference is in the match type of the keywords. In the end they're used broad in this case which would make sense that the singular and plural could be the same. Usually when you would have an exact match you're going to see a difference in volume.

My guess would be that you can combine them in 1 sitemap and by using the news:languagetag that you'll define the language. Google is checking the page content anyway first before using it in their index. So making sure that the content language tags are also on your page itself (the source code) will make sure the content is seen in the right way.</news:language>

This can take a very long time sometimes, for bigger sites I could see this take months with smaller sites it depends on the frequency and the crawl rate that Google visits your site. If Google is not very active on your site because the content doesn't really relate to something that is updated often then Google might decide not to come back too often to save their own servers and find other content elsewhere on the web.

In your case I would focus on making sure that the new site and structure are working flawless and less about de-indexing the old pages. I can't imagine that they still receive a ton of traffic. Without any doubt is 4 days still very early for Google to pick up the changes.

Hope this helps!?

Well I'm pretty sure that the difference ain't in Schema.org as the differences there have nothing to do with the crawlability and the newsworthiness of the content. The first things I would focus on are making sure that Google can find new content as fast as possible and that your crawl-rate goes up. That's really important, and if you're convinced that is fixed then focus more attention on the authority part.

Both ain't easy to fix, but someday you'll get there!

So the "In the news" block in the Google Search results are still powered by the normal Google Search data and not necessarily by the Google News data sets. That means you sometimes can let go of all the requirements like the news-sitemaps that are required for this. Usually authority seems to be the biggest issue to get into the block. What do you consider a strong backlink profile at the moment and could you shed some light on the industry that you're in?

Hi Jeff,

What you need to do is relate the product/offer to the Review Schema that you can find here: http://schema.org/Review, if you embed it this way it will make sure it's connected with the right relation.

Martijn