EOM Preferred Sources Button

When someone picks your site as a preferred source in Google Search, your articles show up more often in Top Stories, and they can carry a “preferred” badge in AI Mode and AI Overviews. Google reports that people are twice as likely to click through to a site after marking it that way.

This plugin puts that button on your site and gives you full control over where it appears and how it looks.

Three ways to integrate

1. Deeplink (default) — a plain link to Google’s source preferences tool. No script from Google, no third-party connection, about one kilobyte in total.
2. Two-click — your own button. Google’s library is fetched only after a visitor clicks, so the third-party request follows a deliberate action.
3. Google’s official widget — the integration Google recommends, with an automatically translated button. Convenient, but it loads roughly 250 KB of JavaScript from news.google.com on every page view, and that script sets cookies and local storage.

The default is the deeplink, so the plugin adds no third-party requests until you decide otherwise.

Display rules

• Automatic placement before, after or inside the content, or as a floating bar
• Insert after a chosen paragraph
• Per content type: posts, pages, custom post types
• Per view: single views, front page, blog index, category, tag and taxonomy archives, author and date archives, search results, 404
• Include or exclude individual posts by ID
• Include or exclude categories, tags and custom taxonomy terms
• Only on posts newer than a given number of days
• Only for logged-out visitors, or hidden from chosen roles

Design

Colour scheme (light, dark, follow the system, or your own colours), icon and icon position, corner radius, border, font size and weight, padding, spacing, shadow, full width, alignment and extra CSS classes — with a live preview next to the fields. You can also turn the plugin stylesheet off entirely and style the button from your theme.

Also included

• Block, shortcode [preferred_source] and template tag psbtn_button()
• A ready-made link for newsletters and social posts
• Optional click measurement through the dataLayer or gtag that is already on your site
• Optional local click counter that stores nothing but a number per day
• Import and export of the configuration as JSON
• A fallback link when a content blocker stops Google’s script
• A Site Health check

Auf Deutsch

Wenn Leserinnen und Leser deine Website als bevorzugte Quelle auswählen, erscheinen deine Inhalte häufiger in den “Top Stories” der Google-Suche. Dieses Plugin bringt den passenden Button nach WordPress — wahlweise als datensparsamen Deeplink ohne Google-Skript, als Zwei-Klick-Lösung oder als offizielles Google-Widget. Dazu kommen ausführliche Anzeigeregeln (Beitragstypen, Ansichten, Kategorien, Beitragsalter, Rollen), vollständige Design-Einstellungen mit Live-Vorschau, Block, Shortcode und eine optionale Klickmessung, die deine Website nie verlässt. Die Oberfläche ist auf Deutsch verfügbar.

Requirements from Google

Google only considers domains and subdomains for preferred sources. example.com and news.example.com are eligible, example.com/blog is not. Your site also has to be findable in Google’s source preferences tool.

Made by EOM

This plugin is built and maintained by EOM, a German online-marketing agency specialising in SEO and Google visibility. If it helps your site, we would love to hear about it. Learn more about our work at eom.de.

Third-party services

In two-click and widget mode this plugin loads the script https://news.google.com/swg/js/v1/publisher.js from Google. This is Google’s official library for the preferred sources button. Loading it transmits the visitor’s IP address, user agent and referrer to Google, and the script sets cookies and browser storage of its own.

• Google Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms
• Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

In deeplink mode, which is the default, no script or asset is loaded from Google. The button is then an ordinary link, and nothing is sent anywhere until a visitor clicks it.

The plugin itself never contacts any server of its own, and it sends no data to the plugin author.