So in this blog I’m going to break down what we actually built, what it cost, and why a news portal is a completely different animal compared to a normal business website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, who is Pramaan News?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pramaan-social-share-1200x630-1-1024x538.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPramaan News is an open news platform. And when I say open, I mean actually open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any journalist can publish news news website Pramaan. Freelancers, independent reporters, stringers from small towns, people who have been doing ground reporting for years without a big media house behind them. The only condition is simple: you bring your sources.<\/strong> No source, no story.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThat one rule is the whole thing. Somesh built the platform around the idea that credibility comes from evidence, not from which channel’s logo is on your mic. The name itself, Pramaan, literally means proof. So the brand and the editorial policy are saying the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Somesh is genuinely one of the more knowledgeable clients we have worked with. He understood the news industry deeply, he had already thought through the editorial workflow, and he didn’t waste our time with vague briefs. When a client comes with that much clarity, our job becomes execution instead of guesswork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why a news website is not just “a website”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
A lot of people think a news portal is just a blog with a fancy header. It’s not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s what makes it harder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volume.<\/strong> A business site has maybe 15 pages. A news site adds 20 to 50 new pages every single day<\/em>. Your architecture has to handle that without falling apart in month three.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSpeed of indexing.<\/strong> If Google takes 4 days to index your breaking news article, that article is dead. Nobody is searching for yesterday’s news. So the crawl and indexing setup has to be aggressive from day one.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCategory structure.<\/strong> Politics, crime, sports, local, national, business, entertainment. Each of these needs its own hub, its own internal linking logic, and its own archive pages that don’t turn into thin-content junk.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMulti-author handling.<\/strong> When any journalist can post, you need author pages, bylines, and a submission flow that doesn’t require a developer every time someone new joins.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPage speed under ad load.<\/strong> News sites eventually run ads. If the base site is already slow, adding ad scripts kills it completely. So we build lean from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWe handled all of this in the build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What we actually delivered for Rs 20,000<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Let me be straight about the pricing because that’s the part people always ask about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One time build cost: Rs 20,000<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThat covered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Full news portal design and development<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Mobile-first responsive layout (in India, 80 percent plus of news traffic is mobile, so this is not optional)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Category and sub-category structure built for scale<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Article publishing system with author bylines<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Journalist submission flow with source field mandatory<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Homepage with breaking news section, featured stories, and category blocks<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Search functionality<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Social sharing integration (WhatsApp sharing especially, because that’s how news actually travels in India)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Contact, About, Editorial Policy and Privacy pages<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- SSL, hosting setup, domain configuration<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Google Analytics and Search Console setup<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- XML sitemap and news sitemap<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Basic on-page SEO on every template<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Monthly SEO: Rs 20,000 per month<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe build gets you live. The SEO is what gets you read. For a news site the monthly work includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Google News and Discover optimisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- News sitemap monitoring and indexing health<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- NewsArticle schema implementation and validation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Category page optimisation and internal linking<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Keyword research for trending and evergreen topics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Technical audits (crawl budget, duplicate content, thin archives)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Core Web Vitals monitoring<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Backlink building and digital PR<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Monthly performance reporting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Ab dekhiye, Rs 20,000 for a full news portal is genuinely aggressive pricing. Most agencies quote 1.5 to 3 lakh for this. We could do it at this number because we have built the news portal architecture before, so we’re not inventing it from scratch each time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Google News angle nobody talks about<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Here’s something most new publishers get wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Google removed the manual Google News approval requirement a while back, which made everyone think “great, we’re automatically in.” Not really. You still need to earn your way into News and Discover, and that depends on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Consistent publishing frequency (not 12 articles one week and 2 the next)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Clear author identity and bylines<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Transparent editorial policy and contact information<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Original reporting, not rewritten copy from other portals<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Correct NewsArticle structured data<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Fast, stable, mobile-friendly pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Pramaan News ticks the original reporting box naturally because of the source-mandatory rule. That’s a real SEO advantage that most aggregator sites don’t have. Google is actively rewarding original journalism right now, and penalising sites that just spin other people’s stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What comes next for Pramaan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The site is live and the SEO engine has started. Over the next few months the focus is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Building publishing consistency so the crawl frequency goes up<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Growing the journalist network so coverage widens<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Establishing category authority, starting with local and regional coverage before going broad<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Building backlinks and brand mentions so domain authority moves<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
News SEO is a compounding game. The first two months look slow, then it starts building on itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Agar aap bhi ek news portal launch karna chahte hain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
If you’re a journalist, an editor, or someone planning to start a news platform, here’s my honest advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t spend 2 lakh on a website before you’ve published your first 100 articles. Get a well-built, fast, properly structured site live at a sensible cost, then put your money into content and SEO. The site is the vehicle. Content is the fuel. Most people buy a Mercedes and then have no petrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And please, sort out your editorial policy before launch, not after. It matters for credibility and it matters for Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We build news portals, business websites<\/a>, and ecommerce stores, and we handle SEO for clients across Chhattisgarh and the rest of India. If you want to talk through your project, reach out to Graventon Solutions<\/strong>.<\/a> We’re based in Bilaspur and Raipur and we work with clients everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLaunching a full news website doesn\u2019t have to break the bank. With strategic planning and efficient execution, we created Pramaan News for just Rs 20,000, ensuring it was well-structured and fast. Our approach prioritizes content quality and SEO over extravagant initial investments. It’s essential to establish a solid editorial policy to boost credibility and enhance visibility on search engines. Check out Pramaan News at pramaan.news to see how Somesh and his team are making an impact in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPramaan News is an open news platform. And when I say open, I mean actually open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any journalist can publish news news website Pramaan. Freelancers, independent reporters, stringers from small towns, people who have been doing ground reporting for years without a big media house behind them. The only condition is simple: you bring your sources.<\/strong> No source, no story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That one rule is the whole thing. Somesh built the platform around the idea that credibility comes from evidence, not from which channel’s logo is on your mic. The name itself, Pramaan, literally means proof. So the brand and the editorial policy are saying the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Somesh is genuinely one of the more knowledgeable clients we have worked with. He understood the news industry deeply, he had already thought through the editorial workflow, and he didn’t waste our time with vague briefs. When a client comes with that much clarity, our job becomes execution instead of guesswork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A lot of people think a news portal is just a blog with a fancy header. It’s not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s what makes it harder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Volume.<\/strong> A business site has maybe 15 pages. A news site adds 20 to 50 new pages every single day<\/em>. Your architecture has to handle that without falling apart in month three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speed of indexing.<\/strong> If Google takes 4 days to index your breaking news article, that article is dead. Nobody is searching for yesterday’s news. So the crawl and indexing setup has to be aggressive from day one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Category structure.<\/strong> Politics, crime, sports, local, national, business, entertainment. Each of these needs its own hub, its own internal linking logic, and its own archive pages that don’t turn into thin-content junk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Multi-author handling.<\/strong> When any journalist can post, you need author pages, bylines, and a submission flow that doesn’t require a developer every time someone new joins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Page speed under ad load.<\/strong> News sites eventually run ads. If the base site is already slow, adding ad scripts kills it completely. So we build lean from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We handled all of this in the build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let me be straight about the pricing because that’s the part people always ask about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One time build cost: Rs 20,000<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That covered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Monthly SEO: Rs 20,000 per month<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The build gets you live. The SEO is what gets you read. For a news site the monthly work includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ab dekhiye, Rs 20,000 for a full news portal is genuinely aggressive pricing. Most agencies quote 1.5 to 3 lakh for this. We could do it at this number because we have built the news portal architecture before, so we’re not inventing it from scratch each time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s something most new publishers get wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google removed the manual Google News approval requirement a while back, which made everyone think “great, we’re automatically in.” Not really. You still need to earn your way into News and Discover, and that depends on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pramaan News ticks the original reporting box naturally because of the source-mandatory rule. That’s a real SEO advantage that most aggregator sites don’t have. Google is actively rewarding original journalism right now, and penalising sites that just spin other people’s stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The site is live and the SEO engine has started. Over the next few months the focus is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n News SEO is a compounding game. The first two months look slow, then it starts building on itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re a journalist, an editor, or someone planning to start a news platform, here’s my honest advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t spend 2 lakh on a website before you’ve published your first 100 articles. Get a well-built, fast, properly structured site live at a sensible cost, then put your money into content and SEO. The site is the vehicle. Content is the fuel. Most people buy a Mercedes and then have no petrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And please, sort out your editorial policy before launch, not after. It matters for credibility and it matters for Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We build news portals, business websites<\/a>, and ecommerce stores, and we handle SEO for clients across Chhattisgarh and the rest of India. If you want to talk through your project, reach out to Graventon Solutions<\/strong>.<\/a> We’re based in Bilaspur and Raipur and we work with clients everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Launching a full news website doesn\u2019t have to break the bank. With strategic planning and efficient execution, we created Pramaan News for just Rs 20,000, ensuring it was well-structured and fast. Our approach prioritizes content quality and SEO over extravagant initial investments. It’s essential to establish a solid editorial policy to boost credibility and enhance visibility on search engines. Check out Pramaan News at pramaan.news to see how Somesh and his team are making an impact in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kuch projects aise hote hain jo sirf ek client project nahi rehte.…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-digital-marketing-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graventonsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why a news website is not just “a website”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What we actually delivered for Rs 20,000<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Google News angle nobody talks about<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What comes next for Pramaan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Agar aap bhi ek news portal launch karna chahte hain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n