Media sites win or lose on three things: speed, structure, and distribution. A story that takes four seconds to render on a mid-range Android phone will not hold a Discover click, and an archive with broken pagination will not get crawled deeply enough to rank. We fix the platform first, then the content system on top of it.
This is different from generic blog SEO. News has its own requirements — publisher markup, sitemap conventions for fresh content, AMP decisions, paywall signalling, E-E-A-T through author entities, and the ability to survive ten times normal traffic when a story breaks.









