How to add Creative Bloq as a preferred source

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1. Add via a link (automatic search)
2. Add via a link (manual search)
3. Add via an icon

The Google landscape is changing – don't tell us you haven't noticed those AI Overviews that now appear all over the place. But there is a way to customise your Google results to get more of the content you want.

Once such way is to select your favourite publications and add them as a 'preferred source' so that they are more likely to appear in 'Top Stories' and 'News' as well as in the 'From your sources' section.

1. Add via a link (automatic search)

1. Go to Source preferences

Google source preferences with Creativebloq.com highlighted

Make sure you are signed into Google. Click this link to go to Source preferences with Creative Bloq already selected.

2. Tick the checkbox

Source preferences with Creative Bloq selected and the box next to it ticked

Tick the checkbox and you have added Creative Bloq as your preferred source. Click 'reload results' to make it official. It was that easy!

2. Add via a link (manual search)

1. Go to Source preferences

Make sure you are signed into your Google account and click this link

2. Search for Creative Bloq

source preferences on Google with Creative Bloq in search bar

Search for Creative Bloq in the dropdown. Try not to type the common typo 'Creative Blow' or you won't get anything.

3. Tick the checkbox

source preferences with Creative Bloq selected and the blue tickbox checked

Tick the checkbox, click 'reload results' and you're done!

3. Add via an icon

1. Google a topic in the news

Google screenshot showing search results for Zelda anniversary

Search for a topic that's in the news and likely to have newsboxes/Top Stories (above).

2. Click on the grey icon next to 'Top Stories'

Google top stories box with arrow next to grey icon

Click on the grey icon next to 'Top Stories'.

3. Enter 'Creative Bloq' and tick the box

Google screenshot showing how to type in Creative Bloq to get it as a preferred source

Type Creative Bloq and tick the checkbox. Click 'reload results' and you're in business.

So there you have it! You have added us as a preferred source and will see more art and design content in your Google search results.

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Rosie Hilder is Creative Bloq's Deputy Editor. After beginning her career in journalism in Argentina – where she worked as Deputy Editor of Time Out Buenos Aires – she moved back to the UK and joined Future Plc in 2016. Since then, she's worked as Operations Editor on magazines including Computer Arts, 3D World and Paint & Draw and Mac|Life. In 2018, she joined Creative Bloq, where she now assists with the daily management of the site, including growing the site's reach, getting involved in events, such as judging the Brand Impact Awards, and helping make sure our content serves the reader as best it can.

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